Tandara Caixeta

Tandara Caixeta
Personal information
Full name Tandara Alves Caixeta
Nationality Brazilian
Born (1988-10-30) 30 October 1988
Brasília, DF, Brazil
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 87 kg (192 lb)
Spike 305 cm (120 in)
Block 297 cm (117 in)
Volleyball information
Position Opposite Spiker / Outside Spiker
Current club Osasco Võleibol
Number 11
National team
2011 –Brazil
Honours
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
2012 LondonTeam
World Championship
2014 ItalyTeam
World Grand Prix
2014 TokyoTeam
2017 NanjingTeam
2011 MacauTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
2013 JapanTeam
2017 Japan Team
Pan American Games
2011 GuadalajaraTeam
Montreux Volley Masters
2017 SwitzerlandTeam
South American Championship
2011 Callao
2017 Cali

Tandara Alves Caixeta (born Brasilia, 30 October 1988) is a Brazilian professional volleyball player. She plays for the Brazil women's national volleyball team and for Minas Tenis Clube in the Brazilian Superliga. She competed for Brazil in the 2012 Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal.[1] She is 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) tall. She is the daughter of Evaldo Caixeta, a former amateur player with Banco do Brasil Athletic Association. At the age of nine, after trying many different sports, she saw a TV advert and decided to go to a volleyball trial.

In 2011, she was selected for the Brazil team for the first time and won gold in the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, before becoming an Olympic champion in London in 2012. She has twice been the top scorer in the Brazilian Women's Superliga.

Caixeta won the 2017 South American Championship Most Valuable Player award.[2] She later won the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Opposite Spiker award.[3]

Clubs

Awards

Clubs

Individuals

References

  1. ↑ "Women's Volleyball". London2012.com. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Brasil suma su 20º título y clasifica al mundial de Japón en el Sudamericano EN EL SUDAMERICANO DE CALI". CSV (in Spanish). 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "China clinch second FIVB World Grand Champions Cup title". Nagoya, Japan: FIVB. 10 September 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
Awards
Preceded by
Brazil Gabriela Guimarães		 Most Valuable Player of
South American Championship
2017		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
Dominican Republic Gina Mambrú		 Best Opposite Spiker of
World Grand Champions Cup
2017		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
-		 Best Opposite Spiker of
FIVB Nations League
2018		 Succeeded by
TBD


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