Sofía Mercedes
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| Full name | Sofía Esmeralda Mercedes Heredia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Dominican Republic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 25, 1976 Santo Domingo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Santo Domingo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 306 cm (120 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Block | 298 cm (117 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing Spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sofía Esmeralda Mercedes Heredia born May 25, 1976, in Santo Domingo, is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic. Sofia Esmeralda won the gold medal with the women's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in her home town Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.[1] Playing as a wing-spiker she also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics for her native country.[2]
She played for the 2003/2004 season with the Italian team Siram Roma.[3][4] Later that year, she helped the Dominican professional team Los Cachorros to finish in second place for the Dominican Republic 2004 season.[5]
Clubs[edit]
Olimpia Teodora Ravenna (1999–2000)
San Cristóbal (2000–2002)- Siram Roma (2003–2004)
- Los Cachorros (2004)
Ribeira Sacra (2006–2007)
University of Trinidad and Tobago (2008)
Awards[edit]
Clubs[edit]
- 2004 Dominican Republic Distrito Nacional Superior Tournament –
Runner-Up, with Los Cachorros
References[edit]
- ^ FIVB. "Dominican Republic wins Pan Am gold in five-set thriller". Retrieved 2010-01-25.
- ^ Yahoo! Sports. "Sofía E. Mercedes Heredia". Retrieved 2010-07-21.
- ^ Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile. "Eredia Sofia Mercedes". Retrieved 2010-07-21.
- ^ SportFriend.it. "La Nuova arrivata yaneva". Retrieved 2010-07-21.
- ^ NORCECA. "Bameso y Mirador, campeones de nuevo" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2010-07-21.
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Categories:
- 1976 births
- Living people
- Dominican Republic women's volleyball players
- Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players for the Dominican Republic
- Volleyball players at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Volleyball players at the 2007 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the Dominican Republic
- Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
- Wing spikers
- Dominican Republic expatriate volleyball players in Italy
- Dominican Republic expatriate volleyball players in Spain
- Dominican Republic expatriate sportspeople in Trinidad and Tobago
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Dominican Republic sportspeople stubs
- North American volleyball biography stubs