Tandara Caixeta

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
Nationality Brazil
Born (1988-10-30) 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 / Wing Spiker
Current club Nestle/Osasco
Number 11

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

References

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


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