2021 Beach Volleyball Roster
Biography
Career: 61-25 career record ... Finished career eighth in school history in wins (61) and ninth in winning pct. (.709).
2021: ASUN Pair of the Year ... 4x ASUN Pair of the Week (March 10, 24, 31, April 13) ... ASUN Honor Roll ... Went 23-9 on the season ... Played entire season with Carly Perales at Pair 1 ... First ASUN pair ever to win four Pair of the Week Awards in the same season ... Earned ASUN All-Tournament team honors ... National MoVR ranking of 20/21 (61.62) ... Competed against the #1 Pair from ranked opponents 18 times and won 10 of those matches ... Became the first Stetson duo to defeat a No. 1 Pair from the No. 1 team in the country when they defeated FSU's Alaina Chacon and Molly McBain in straight sets (March 19) ... Also picked up ranked wins over #9 TCU, #13/14/15 South Carolina (three times), #13/14 FAU (twice), #17/18 Georgia State (twice), and #20 FGCU ... Went 9-2 vs. ASUN opponents ... Won 10 in a row during one stretch ... 17 of their 23 wins came in straight sets.
2020: Named ASUN Pair of the Week (Feb. 25) ... ASUN Honor Roll ... Went 11-3 with Kyce Martins at Pair 1 and Pair 2 ... Won their first 10 matches of the season ... Went 5-0 at the Seminole Beach Bash and 4-0 and the Stetson Spring Fling ... Picked up wins over seven ranked opponents, including Top 10 wins over No. 2 Florida State and No. 7 Cal Poly ... Ranked 59th in MoVR rankings.
2019: ASUN First Team All-Conference ... ASUN Honor Roll ... Went 27-13 with Rachel Noble at Pair 3 ... Tied for the fifth-most wins by a Stetson pair in school history ... Had the second-most wins for any Pair 3 in the NCAA ... Went 2-1 in the NCAA Championship, posting a straight set win over No. 1 Southern Cal and a three-set win over No. 5 LSU ... Also went 2-1 in the ASUN Championship with wins over Coastal Carolina and FGCU ... Rallied for a crucial point on Court 3 in Stetson's 3-2 win over FGCU in the title match ... Went 7-1 in ASUN regular season play (15-3 in sets) ... Posted 12 wins against ranked opponents, including top 10 wins over #8 Long Beach State, #10 South Carolina, #8 FIU (twice), #4 LSU, #1 USC, and #5 LSU.
St. Petersburg College: Played at the No. 1 seed in beach ... In indoor, was a two-time first team all-conference selection and an all-tournament team performer at the state tournament ... Helped lead her team to a 18-7 record and a trip to the national tournament ... Named SPC Freshman of the Year (2016).
Brazil: Was Brazil's U19 national champion in 2015 ... Earned third-place finishes at the U21 and U23 national tournaments in 2015 and 2016 ... Had an incredible run at the U19 World Championship in Cyprus in 2016, winning two qualifiers, all three pool play matches, a round of 16 match and a quarterfinal match to take home fourth place ... Was also a high school world champion in 2013 and a two-time Brazilian school champion in 2012 and 2014.
• Champion of the Brazilian School Championship - 2012
• Champion of the World School Championship – Italy, 2013
• 2nd of the National Championship (U19) – 2013
• Champion of the International Championship for countries which speaks Portuguese -Angola, 2014
• Champion of the Brazilian School Championship - 2014
• Champion of the National Championship (U19) - 2015
• 2nd of the National Championship (U19) - 2015
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U21) - 2015
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U23) - 2015
• 5th place in the World School Championship- Brazil, 2015
• 2nd place in the Brazilian School Championship-2015
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U21)-2016
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U23)-2016
• 4th place in the world Championship FIVB (U19)- Cyprus,2016
• 2016 Brazilian Beach Volleyball national team
Personal: Ana Carolina de Almeida Costa was born in March, 1999 in Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil ... Is the daughter of Sandra and Jorge Costa ... Has a brother, Luis Felipe de Almeida Costa ... Majoring in International Studies and Political Science.
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