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Full name | Dariam Acevedo Santiago | |||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Puerto Rican | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico | December 15, 1984|||||||||||||||||
Hometown | Trujillo Alto | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Dariam Acevedo Santiago [1] (born December 15, 1984, in Trujillo Alto) [2] is a female beach volleyball player from Puerto Rico who won the gold medal at the NORCECA Circuit 2009 at Montelimar, Nicaragua playing with Yarleen Santiago. [3] [4]
Acevedo majored in kinesiology at University of Texas at Austin and played as outside hitter. [5] There she earned two times All Conference All Academic First team between 2004 and 2005 [6] and All Conference All Academic Second Team in 2006. [7] She also won All Conference Honorable Mention in 2004, same year she won Conference newcomer of the Year. In 2005, she won CoSIDA Academic All-District All Academic. [8]
Acevedo also plays indoor volleyball with the national team [9] and currently professionally with Mets de Guaynabo from Liga de Voleibol Superior Femenino. [10] [11] She participated at the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Germany. [12]