Bethania Almánzar


Bethania Almánzar Sosa is a female beach volleyball and volleyball player from the Dominican Republic. She twice won the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2007, partnering Margarita Suero.

Career

Almánzar played with the club Los Prados from 2004 to 2006, winning the 2005 Dominican Metropolitan League with this club.
She trained in 2005 with the senior national indoor team in 2005, since the team split under the guidance of the Cuban trainer Ismael Ortega just before the 2006 FIVB World Championship qualification.
Almánzar won the silver medal during the 2006 National Games, playing with the North Region.
She twice won the silver medal in the women's competition at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit 2007 in Guatemala City and Carolina, Puerto Rico, partnering Margarita Suero.
Playing with Daniela Rosario, she won the Dominican Republic National Beach Volleyball Tour in 2008.
In Indoor volleyball, she won the bronze medal in 2007 and 2008 at the Dominican Republic Volleyball League playing with Santiago.
She won the 2008 Bonao Athlete of the Year award for her performance during 2008, and she was also contending for her province to the "Premio Nacional de la Juventud", for Sport Achievements.
Almánzar participated during the 2009 Holy Week Sport Festival held in Hato Mayor, playing Beach Volleyball with Dahiana Burgos and Karla Echenique, winning the Silver Medal of the event. She was enlisted for the national beach volleyball team under the guidance of the Cuban coach Carlos Suarez training for the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games. She played the 2011 Santiago volleyball tournament with Navarrete, leading them to win the preliminary round with a 6-0 mark.
She won the 2014 Hato Mayor Volleyball tournament gold medal with Darielis Ravelo and Soranyi Aquino.
Almánzar played with the club Manoguayabo in the 2015 Santo Domingo volleyball tournament.
In August 2016 she traveled to New York with the BanReservas team to play the Bameso USA International tournament, winning the first place.
Almánzar played with Iris Santos and Anahí Lebrón the 2017 Hato Mayor Beach Volleyball Tournament, were they were beaten by Ana Esther Lara, Juana González and Dahiana Burgos, settling with the tournaments silver medal. She later joined the Bonao club in the 2017 North Central ligue championship, were her team claime the bronze medal and she later won the X Bonao Reinforced Volleyball tournament with Plamed.

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