Tandara Caixeta

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 Sesc-Rio 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.

This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Alves and the second or paternal family name is Caixeta.
Tandara Caixeta
Personal information
Full nameTandara Alves Caixeta
NationalityBrazilian
Born (1988-10-30) 30 October 1988
Brasília, DF, Brazil
Height1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight87 kg (192 lb)
Spike305 cm (120 in)
Block297 cm (117 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite Spiker / Outside Spiker
Current clubSESC Rio
Number11
National team
2011 –Brazil
Honours
Representing  Brazil
Olympic Games
2012 LondonTeam
World Championship
2014 ItalyTeam
World Grand Champions Cup
2013 JapanTeam
2017 Japan Team
World Grand Prix
2014 TokyoTeam
2017 NanjingTeam
2011 MacauTeam
Pan American Games
2011 GuadalajaraTeam
Montreux Volley Masters
2017 SwitzerlandTeam
South American Championship
2011 Callao
2017 Cali

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. She is known for breaking records in the Brazilian Superliga. In the 2013/2014 season, she broke the record of most points in a match, she scored 37 points. In the 2017/2018 season, she broke her own record, scoring 39 points, as well scoring 626 points in the season, as this also being the highest mark in the country. Again in the 2019/2020 season, she broke her record, scoring unbelievable 40 points in 4 sets, as this being the highest mark in the history of volleyball in the brazilian courts.

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]

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Awards

Individuals

Clubs

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
Gabriela Guimarães		 Most Valuable Player of
South American Championship
2017		 Succeeded by
TBD
Preceded by
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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