Ana Carolina da Silva is a Brazilian indoor volleyball player who plays as a Central- and Middle-blocker. She won gold and silver medals at the Summer Universiade for the Brazilian National Team in 2011 and 2013, respectively. She competed for the Brazilian National Team in the 2014 edition of the Montreux Volley Masters and was a gold medalist at the 2014 Grand Prix in Japan. In clubs, she is a silver medalist at the 2013 and 2017 Club World Championships in Switzerland and Japan, duly. She is also a four-time South American Club champion in 2013, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Ana Carolina da Silva, also known as Carol, was born on April 8, 1991, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She started in volleyball as a child. She was revealed in the base categories of Mackenzie/Newton Paiva where she stayed from 2005 to 2010, winning the Mineiro Championship title in the youth category in 2007.
With the volleyball club Mackenzie/Newton Paiva, Ana Carolina da Silva played her first edition of the Brazilian Superliga A in the 2008/2009 season when the team advanced to the quarterfinals of this competition and ended up in sixth place. In the following year, the team became champion of the 2009 Mineiro Championship and in the Brazilian Superliga. In 2009/2010, she and the team of Mackenzie/Newton Paiva ended up only in the eleventh position.
In the 2010/2011 season, Ana Carolina da Silva was signed by Pinheiros/Mackenzie and won her first Campeonato Paulista title in 2010 and ended in fourth position after elimination from the semifinal in the corresponding Brazilian Superliga A.
In 2011, she was called to the Brazilian women’s national volleyball team to compete in her first edition of the Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, in which she won the gold medal. In season 2011/2012, she signed with Unilever Volei and became champion of the Carioca Championship 2011 and reached the grand final of the Brazilian Superliga A, ending as a vice-champion.
In the 2012/2013 season, Carol moved to EC Pinheiros, reaching the final of the 2012 Copa Sao Paulo and remaining the runner-up. The team also ended in sixth place for this team in the Brazilian Superliga A. Again, she was called to represent the Brazilian women’s national volleyball team in the 2013 Universiade edition, in which she wore shirt No 7 and won her second medal in this competition, ending with the silver medal.
In 2014, she was called for the Brazilian women’s national volleyball team to compete in the Montreux Volley Masters. The team finished in fifth place, but Ana Carolina da Silva was awarded “Best Blocker” of the competition. The same season they won the 2014 Grand Prix in Tokyo, Japan. Meanwhile, she renewed her contract with Rexona-Sesc for the 2014/2015 competitions. She contributed to the club’s eleventh Carioca Championship title and competed in the Brazilian Superliga A once again winning the title, and being awarded as the “Best Blocker”.
In 2015, Rexona-Sesc dominated in Brazilian volleyball winning the Brazilian Cup, Brazilian Supercup, Brazilian Superliga, Carioca Championship, as well as South American Club Championship. The team was also fourth in the Club World Championship. Carol was awarded “Best Middle Blocker” at the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship and 2015 South American Club Championship, as well as “Best Blocker” and “Best Server” at the Brazilian Superliga. During the season she was part of the main squad of the Brazilian women’s national volleyball team and competed in the Grand Prix, winning the bronze medal.
In 2016, she represented Rexona-Sesc in the edition of the South American Club Championship in La Plata, Argentina. Ana Carolina da Silva played at the 2016 Club World Championship in Manila, Philippines, an edition that ended in fifth place and was awarded as the “Best Blocker”. Her volleyball club was the runner-up in the Carioca Championship and won the second Supercup of Brazil in Uberlandia. However, she was cut from the squad for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
For Rexona-Sesc, she played in the Brazilian Superliga A in the 2016/2017 season, becoming a four-time champion. She won another Brazilian Cup in 2017 the fourth championship of her career in the 2017 South American Club Championship. The team also was the runner-up in the Club World Championship in Kobe, Japan.
Ana Carolina da Silva was called up to the Brazilian national team again in 2017 and competed in the Montreux Volley Masters, winning the title. She was awarded Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the “Best Middle Blocker”. That same year she also competed in the Grand Prix, where she won the title for the second time.
In 2017, she moved to Turkey signing with Nilufer Belediyespor, but only one season abroad returned to Brazil to sign for Dentil/Praia Clube.
With the volleyball team, she was runner-up in the 2019 Brazilian Cup and the 2019 South American Club Championship. She was a key figure in the team that reached the grand final of the 2018/2019 Brazilian Superliga. On February 22, 2022, in the game against Rio de Janeiro Volei Clube, despite the defeat by 3-2, Ana Carolina da Silva managed to break the record for the highest number of blocks in a single game in the Superliga Brasileira de Voleibol Feminino, winning 12 points.
On July 17, 2022, Ana Carolina da Silva became runner-up with Brazil after losing the 2022 League of Nations final to Italy.
On October 13, 2022, Carol scored 17 points, 10 of which were only from blocks against Italy in a game valid for the semifinal of the Volleyball World Cup. Two days later, she became runner-up with Brazil after losing the 2022 World Championship final to Serbia.
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