Elvis Contreras


Elvis Dalsires Contreras de los Santos 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, and "Best Scorer" at the 2005 version.
At the 2007 NORCECA Championship, he was awarded "Best Receiver", and his national team finished in 5th place.
He won the Dominican Republic "2007 Volleyball Player of the Year".
In mid-June 2012, the Poland club Zaksa Kędzierzyn-Koźle announced his joining for the 2012–13 season.
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.
Contreras led Technocrats to the title of the 2013 Caribbean Volleyball League, also winning the Most Valuable Player, Best Scorer, Best Spiker and Best Server awards in the Trinidad and Tobago-based tournament. He then joined the Brazilian club Funvic Taubaté.
In August 2014 Contreras announced that he would retire from the national team after the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. At these games, the Dominican Republic won the gold medal for the first time and Contreras were awarded Most Valuable Player, Best Outside Spiker and Best Scorer.

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