Elvis Contreras
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| Full name | Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dominican | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 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) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Wing Spiker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current club |  Funvic Taubaté | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
Bameso (1997–2000)- Los Prados (2000–2003)
7 Islas Compaktuna (2002–2003)
Armet Bassano del Grappa (2003–2004)
VfB Friedrichshafen (2004–2006)
Leones de Ponce (2006)
Sada Betim (2006–2007)- Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia (2007–2010)
- Bahoruco (2010)
- San José de Las Matas (2010)
Dinamo Krasnodar (2011-2012)
Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle (2012)- Iskra Odintsovo (2013)
Technocrats (2013)- La Romana (2013)
- Funvic/Taubaté (2013-2014)
Alhi Club (2014-2015)
Individuals
- 2001 NORCECA Championship "Best Spiker"
- 2005 NORCECA Championship "Best Scorer"
- 2006 Pan-American Cup "Most Valuable Player"
- 2006 Pan-American Cup "Best Scorer"
- 2006 Dominican Republic Volleyball Player of the Year"
- 2007 NORCECA Championship "Best Receiver"
- 2008 Pan-American Cup "Best Scorer"
- 2012 Pan-American Cup "Best Server"
- 2012 Pan-American Cup "Best Receiver"
- 2013 Caribbean League "Most Valuable Player"
- 2014 Arabian Champion "Most Valuable Player"
- 2014 Dominican Republic Volleyball Player of the Year"
- 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games "Most Valuable Player"
- 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games "Best Outside Spiker"
- 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games "Best Scorer"
Clubs
- 2005 German Cup -
Champion, with VfB Friedrichshafen - 2005 German Championship - Champion, with VfB Friedrichshafen
- 2006 German Championship - Champion, with VfB Friedrichshafen
- 2006 German Cup - Champion, with VfB Friedrichshafen
- 2008 Italian A2 Championship - Champion, with Tonno Callipo Vibo Valentia
- 2010 Dominican Republic Volleyball League -
Runner-Up, with Bahoruco - 2013 Caribbean League - Champion, with Technocrats
- 2014 Arabian Champion Cup - Champion, with Alhi Club Bahrain
- 2015 Bahrain Championship - Champion, with Alhi Club Bahrain
References
- ^ FIVB (2012). "Dominican Republic". Archived from the original on 2012-12-30. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Volley Barbados. "Cuba wins 13th NORCECA Title". Archived from the original on 2009-05-28. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ DominicanToday.com. "Cuban Poey was the MVP at Norceca's Men Continental". Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ FIVB. "USA Men Captured NORCECA Gold Against Puerto Rico". Archived from the original on 2007-12-13. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ DR1. "Athletes of the Year". Retrieved 2010-06-15.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Niespodzianka z Dominikany. Nowy przyjmujący w Zaksie" (in Polish). nto.pl. 2012-06-12. Retrieved 2012-06-13.
- ^ http://www.fivb.org/viewPressRelease.asp?No=36026&Language=en
- ^ Sunich, Kevin (2013-06-05). "Technocrats capture men volleyball title". Trinidad & Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
- ^ Sunich, Kevin (2013-06-05). "Thompson, Contreras adjudged MVP's". Trinidad & Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
- ^ "Vôlei Taubaté contrata estrangeiros e corre para agilizar documentação". Globoesporte.com (in Portuguese). 2013-10-22. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
- ^ "José Cáceres y Elvis Contreras se van de la selección nacional". Diario Libre (in Spanish). 2015-08-06. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ "Dominican Republic win first crown at CACG". Cordoba, Mexico: NORCECA. 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
- ^ "Elvis Contreras MVP of the Central American Games". Cordoba, Mexico: NORCECA. 2014-11-30. Retrieved 2015-10-31.
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