Áurea Cruz

Áurea Cruz
Personal information
Nationality Puerto Rican
Born (1982-01-10) January 10, 1982
Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Spike 310 cm (120 in)
Block 290 cm (110 in)
Volleyball information
Position Outside Hitter
Current club Igor Volley Novara
Career
YearsTeams
1998–99
1999–2003
2004-05
2005-06
2006-07
2007-08
2008-09
2009
2009-12
2012–15
2015–16		Llaneras de Toa Baja
University of Florida
Llaneras de Toa Baja
Airone Tortolì
Altamura
Ícaro Palma
Hyundai Greenfox
Llaneras de Toa Baja
Villa Cortese
Rabita Baku
Igor Volley Novara
National team
1996–present Puerto Rico
Medal record
Women's volleyball
Representing  Puerto Rico
NORCECA Championship
2009 Bayamón Team
Central American and Caribbean Games
2010 Mayagüez Team
2014 Veracruz Team
2006 Cartagena Team
Pan-American Cup
2009 Miami Team

Áurea Esther "Aury" Cruz (born January 10, 1982) is a female volleyball player from Puerto Rico who competed for the Puerto Rico women's national volleyball team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan, where she was named Best Server at the event.

College career

Cruz accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where she competed for coach Mary Wise's Florida Gators women's volleyball team from 2000 to 2003. The Gators competed in NCAA Division I and the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and were the regular season SEC champions four straight years during Cruz's college career. In 2003, Cruz guided the Gators to their first-ever appearance in the NCAA championship final, where they lost to the University of Southern California (USC). Following her 2003 senior season, she was nominated for Best Player in NCAA Division I. She was a three-time first-team All-SEC selection, and received AVCA first-team All-American honors three consecutive years (2001, 2002, 2003). She graduated from the university with a bachelor's degree in recreation in 2005, and was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2014.[1]

College statistics[2]

 M  Matches  S  Sets  K  Kills  E  Errors  TA  Total Attempts  Pct  Hitting Percentage = (K – E) / TA
 K/S  Kills per Set  A  Setting Assists  A/S  Assists per Set  Aces  Serving Aces  Aces/S  Aces per Set  D  Digs
 D / S  Digs per Set  BS  Solo Blocks  BA  Assisted Blocks  BT  Total Blocks  B/S  Blocks per Set
School Class Year M S K E TA Pct K/S A A/S Aces Aces/S D D/S BS BA BT B/S
Florida Fr.[3] 2000-01 25 82 354 136 807 0.270 4.32 21 0.26 41 0.50 282 3.44 8 54 62 0.76
Florida So. 2001-02 30 97 480 144 1041 0.323 4.95 27 0.28 63 0.65 324 3.34 11 44 55 0.57
Florida Jr. 2002-03 - 100 462 134 1028 0.319 4.62 14 0.14 54 0.54 311 3.11 11 57 68 0.68
Florida Sr. 2003-04 38 117 519 153 1220 0.300 4.44 26 0.22 62 0.53 403 3.44 19 54 73 0.62

Career

In 1999, Cruz received the Final Series Most Valuable Player award when her team from Puerto Rico, Llaneras de Toa Baja won the League Championship.[4] Cruz won the silver medal in the 2012 FIVB Club World Championship, playing with the Azerbaijani club Rabita Baku.[5]

Cruz's club, Rabita Baku won the Bronze medal of the 2013–14 CEV Champions League after falling 0-3 to the Russian Dinamo Kazan in the semifinals,[6] but defeating 3-0 to the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul in the third place match.[7]

In May 2015, the Italian club Igor Novara announced the signing of Cruz for the 2015–16 season.[8]

Clubs

Awards

Individual

Club

Club statistics

South Korea V-League

 M  Matches  Pts  Points  Pts/M  Points per Match  K  Kills  K/M  Kills per Match
 Aces  Serving Aces  Aces/M  Aces per Match  D  Digs  D/M  Digs per Match
 A  Setting Assists  A/M  Assists per Match  R  Receptions  R/M  Receptions per Match  B  Blocks  B/M  Blocks per Match
Team Year M Pts Pts/M K K/M Aces Aces/M D D/M A A/M R R/M B B/M
South Korea Hyundai Greenfox[9] 2008-2009 28 624 22.3 564 20.1 22 0.79 425 15.2 10 0.36 406 14.5 38 1.36

Italian Volleyball Women's League Series A1 [10]

 M  Matches  S  Sets  Pts  Points  Aces  Serving Aces  SE  Service Errors
 Rec  Receptions  RE  Reception Errors  RExc  Reception Excellents  REff = (RExc - RE) / Rec  Reception Efficiency
 Att  Attack Attempts  AttE  Attack Errors  K  Kills  Att-Eff = (K- AttE) / Att  Attack Efficiency  Blk  Blocks
Serving Reception Attack Blocking
Team Year M S Pts Aces SE Rec RE RExc REff Att AttE K AttEff Blk
Italy Airone Tortolì 2005-2006 9 33 121 4 16 262 11 150 0.53 285 28 110 0.29 7
Italy Altamura 2006-2007 21 77 256 14 49 445 22 287 0.60 620 66 225 0.26 17
Italy Villa Cortese 2009-2010 31 123 453 18 54 887 36 442 0.46 982 79 403 0.33 32
Italy Villa Cortese 2010-2011 33 128 481 13 43 1104 33 607 0.52 1095 108 426 0.29 42
Italy Villa Cortese 2011-2012 30 113 340 15 35 500 15 250 0.47 827 67 305 0.29 20

References

  1. ↑ F Club, Hall of Fame, Gator Greats. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ NCAA player career search, .
  3. ↑ 2000 Florida Women's Volleyball Statistics Report, .
  4. ↑ PUR Volleyball Federation. "Llaneras Campeonas" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  5. ↑ "Trentino Diatec and Sollys Nestle crowned in Doha". Doha, Qatar: FIVB. 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  6. ↑ "Dinamo disappoints Baku home crowd by claiming the last spot in final". Baku, Azerbaijan: CEV. 2014-03-15. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  7. ↑ "Bronze consolation for Rabita at home Final Four". Baku, Azerbaijan: CEV. 2014-03-16. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  8. ↑ "Igor Gorgonzola Novara: colpo internazionale, in posto quattro arriva Aurea Cruz". Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. 2015-05-27. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  9. ↑ Team schedule and results,
  10. ↑ Individual statistics,

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