Ana Silva

Ana Carolina da Silva (; born 8 April 1991) is a Brazilian indoor volleyball player. She plays as a Middle blocker and was a member of the Brazil women's national volleyball team from 2014 to 2024.

Career Da Silva won the silver medal and the Best Middle Blocker award at the 2013 Club World Championship playing with Unilever Vôlei. Da Silva played with her national team, winning the bronze at the 2014 World Championship when her team defeated Italy 3–2 in the bronze medal match.

During the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship, Da Silva played with the Brazilian club Rexona Ades Rio and her team lost the bronze medal match to the Swiss Voléro Zürich, Nonetheless, she won the tournament's Best Blocker award along with the Croatian Maja Poljak. She averaged 1.07 stuff blocks per set, just behind Poljak who blocked 1.19.

She won the 2017 South American Championship Best Middle Blocker award. and later the 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup Best Middle Blocker award. In 2021, she competed for the first time in the Olympics in Tokyo 2020, winning silver medal with Brazil Volleyball Team. In the 2022 World Championship, won the silver medal after losing the final match against Serbia.

On 11 August 2024, Brazil defeated Turkey in the bronze medal match and Da Silva won her second olympic medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

On 2 August 2025, Carol announced her retirement after 10 years defending the Brazilian National Team.

Personal life On 2 March 2023, Da Silva married her long-time partner Anne Buijs, who is also a player for the Netherlands' National Team. They've been together since 2016, when they were both playing for the same club in Rio de Janeiro, Rexona-Sesc. After that they played together for two international volleyball clubs, Nilufer in Turkey and Praia Clube located in Uberlândia, Brazil, where they got married. Playing together they won two times the Brazilian Superliga, in 2016/17 and 2022/23. They also played the same olympics for the first time, in Paris 2024, with their respective countries.

Awards Individuals In teams 2013 FIVB Club World Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2013 FIVB Club World Championship – "Best Blocker" 2015 FIVB Club World Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2014–15 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Blocker" 2015–16 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Blocker" 2015–16 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Server" 2018–19 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Blocker" 2018–19 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Middle Blocker" 2020–21 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Middle Blocker" 2021–22 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Middle Blocker" 2022–23 Brazilian Superliga – "Best Middle Blocker" 2017–18 Turkish Women's Volleyball League – "Best Middle Blocker" 2017–18 Turkish Women's Volleyball League – "Best Blocker" 2015 South American Club Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2016 South American Club Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2016 South American Club Championship – "Most Valuable Player" 2020 South American Club Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2022 South American Club Championship – "Best Middle Blocker"

In Brazil's national team 2014 Montreux Volley Masters – "Best Blocker" 2017 Montreux Volley Masters – "Best Middle Blocker" 2017 Montreux Volley Masters – "Most Valuable Player" 2017 South American Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2021 South American Championship – "Best Middle Blocker" 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup – "Best Middle Blocker" 2017 FIVB World Grand Champions Cup – "Best Blocker" 2022 FIVB Nations League – "Best Middle Blocker" 2022 World Championship – "Best Middle Blocker"

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