Ana Esther Lara (born ) is a retired Dominican Republic female

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player. She was part of the

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. She participated in the

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. On club level she played for Modeca in 2006.

Career

Lara was awarded Best Receiver in the 2004 National District Superior Tournament that she played with the club Bameso. In the 2004 Junior NORCECA Championship held in Winnipeg Canada, she won the silver medal and the Best Libero award. Lara was viewed as the future for the Libero position for the Dominican Republic at the time she was participating in the warm up matches against a Chinese team. She represented her home country at the 2005 FIVB U20 World Championship, and her team finished ninth when their goal was reaching the fifth position. She played this tournament that was meant for players born after 1986. During the 2005 Superior National tournament, Lara played with the Santo Domingo representative and was awarded tournament's Best Digger. She won the Best Libero individual award in the 2006 FIVB qualification championship, For the 2005/06 season, she played with the German club USC Braunschweig, ranking in the seventh place in the Bundesliga. When the Dominican coach Beato Cruz took over the reins of the senior national teams, he was set to visit the Dominican players participating overseas, among them Lara and named her between the 18 players set to fight for a spot in the 2006 national team calendar. Lara was set to participate in 2007 with her original club, Modeca, but after serious disagreements Lara's club president and the NORCECA president Cristóbal Marte, she and other player were expelled from the national team indefinitely. Later she was named in the case file open in the

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's Ethics Commission by Professor Hans Peter Graf, accusing FIVB president Mr. Ruben Acosta and the vice president Cristóbal Marte of violation of the IOC ethical rules and cheating about ages, among them, Lara´s age for the 2005 FIVB U20 World Championship. She turned to

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, partnering Juana González in the

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, Bolivia stop from the World Volleyball Federation (WVBF) Proseries Championship Tour 2008 were they ranked tied in seventh place from eight participants. Lara played for

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in the 2008 National University Games in the Dominican Republic. In 2017 she won the gold medal in the Hato Mayor Beach Volleyball Tournament, playing with Dahiana Burgos and

Juana González Juana Miguelina González Sánchez (born January 3, 1979, in Laguna Salada, Valverde) is a volleyball and basketball player from the Dominican Republic. She competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing t ...

. In 2019 The libero Ana Lara was chosen by Cristo Rey and there they would have the opportunity to play in this campaign in the absence of Brenda Castillo, where his team was in the first place, he suffered an injury in the right knee that affected his meniscus, this happened and he had to leave the competition, carry out the recovery process under therapies, his participation was impeccable, she not I had played at that level since 2006

Clubs

* Simón Bolívar (1996–1998) * Modeca (1999–2002) * Evocar (2003–2004) * Bameso (2004) * USC Braunschweig (2005-2006) * Modeca (2006-2007) * Evocar (2007) * Cristo Rey (2019)

References

External links

FIVB Profile
*La líbero Ana Lara fue escogida por Cristo Rey y allí tendrá oportunidad de juego en esta campaña ante la ausencia de Castillo. http://www.fedovoli.org/noticias/2019/2/caribe%C3%B1as-tras-retener-la-corona-gina-mambr%C3%BA-pasa-a-cristo-rey-vc.aspx *La ausencia de la estelar libero de Cristo Rey, Ana Lara, le hizo mucha falta al conjunto en su coordinación ofensiva. El dirigente Wilson Sánchez tuvo que maniobrar con Yemarie Reyes https://hoy.com.do/cristo-rey-gana-y-se-afianza-en-primer-lugar/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Lara, Ana Esther 1988 births Living people Dominican Republic women's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Liberos Expatriate volleyball players in Germany Dominican Republic beach volleyball players Women's beach volleyball players Dominican Republic expatriate sportspeople in Germany Sportspeople in Germany by club or team 21st-century Dominican Republic sportswomen