Tandara Caixeta

Tandara Caixeta
Personal information
Nationality	Brazil
Born	30 October 1988
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
Current club	Minas Tênis Clube
Number	11
Honours Competitor for  Brazil Olympic Games 2012 London Team World Championship 2014 Italy Team Pan American Games 2011 Guadalajara Team

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.^[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 age 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 a very powerful attack, and is considered one of the most powerful women's players in Brazil. She has twice been the top scorer in the Brazilian Women's Superliga.

Clubs

• A.D. Brusque (2005–2007)
• Grêmio de Vôlei Osasco (2007–2008)
• Esporte Clube Pinheiros (2008–2009)
• A.D. Brusque (2009–2010)
• Vôlei Futuro (2010–2011)
• Sollys/Osasco (2011–2012)
• SESI-SP (2012–2013)
• Vôlei Amil Campinas (2013–2014)
• Praia Clube (2014–2015)
• Minas Tênis Clube (2015–present)

References

1. "Women's Volleyball". London2012.com. Retrieved July 30, 2012.