Elvis Contreras

Elvis Contreras
Personal information
Full name Elvis Dalsires Contreras De Los Santos
Nationality  Dominican Republic
Born (1979-07-20) July 20, 1979
Tamayo
Hometown Santo Domingo
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 77 kg (170 lb)
Spike 365 cm (144 in)
Block 355 cm (140 in)
Volleyball information
Position Wing Spiker
Current club Brazil Funvic Taubaté
National team
1998 - 2014Dominican Republic Dominican Republic
Last updated: June 2013

Elvis Dalsires Contreras De Los Santos (born July 20, 1979 in Tamayo[1]) is a male volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the silver medal with the men's national team at the 2006 Pan American Cup in Mexicali, Mexico. He plays as a wing-spiker for Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté.

Career

He won the "Best Spiker" award at the 2001 NORCECA Championship,[2] and "Best Scorer" at the 2005 version.[3]

At the 2007 NORCECA Championship, he was awarded "Best Receiver", and his national team finished in 5th place.[4]

He won the Dominican Republic "2007 Volleyball Player of the Year".[5]

In mid-June 2012, the Poland club Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle announced his joining for the 2012–13 season.[6]

Contreras won the bronze medal in the 2012 Men's Pan-American Volleyball Cup playing with his national team and also win the Best Receiver and Best Server awards.[7]

Contreras led Technocrats to the title of the 2013 Caribbean Volleyball League,[8] also winning the Most Valuable Player, Best Scorer, Best Spiker and Best Server awards in the Trinidad and Tobago-based tournament.[9] He then joined the Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté.[10]

In August 2014 Contreras announced that he would retire from the national team after the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games.[11] At these games, the Dominican Republic won the gold medal for the first time[12] and Contreras were awarded Most Valuable Player, Best Outside Spiker and Best Scorer.[13]

Clubs

Individuals

Clubs

References

  1. FIVB (2012). "Dominican Republic". Retrieved 2013-01-21.
  2. Volley Barbados. "Cuba wins 13th NORCECA Title". Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  3. DominicanToday.com. "Cuban Poey was the MVP at Norceca’s Men Continental". Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  4. FIVB. "USA Men Captured NORCECA Gold Against Puerto Rico". Retrieved 2010-06-24.
  5. DR1. "Athletes of the Year". Retrieved 2010-06-15.
  6. "Niespodzianka z Dominikany. Nowy przyjmujący w Zaksie" (in Polish). nto.pl. 2012-06-12. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
  7. http://www.fivb.org/viewPressRelease.asp?No=36026&Language=en
  8. Sunich, Kevin (2013-06-05). "Technocrats capture men volleyball title". Trinidad & Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  9. Sunich, Kevin (2013-06-05). "Thompson, Contreras adjudged MVP’s". Trinidad & Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
  10. "Vôlei Taubaté contrata estrangeiros e corre para agilizar documentação". Globoesporte.com (in Portuguese). 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  11. "José Cáceres y Elvis Contreras se van de la selección nacional". Diario Libre (in Spanish). 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  12. "Dominican Republic win first crown at CACG". Cordoba, Mexico: NORCECA. 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
  13. "Elvis Contreras MVP of the Central American Games". Cordoba, Mexico: NORCECA. 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2015-10-31.

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