Gabriel García Fernández
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| Full name | Gabriel Jose García Fernández | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Gabi | ||||||||||||||
| Born | January 8, 1999 San Juan, Puerto Rico | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| College / University | Brigham Young University | ||||||||||||||
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| Position | Opposite | ||||||||||||||
| Current club | Trentino Volley | ||||||||||||||
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Gabriel Jose García Fernández (born January 8, 1999) is a Puerto Rican professional volleyball player with American citizenship who plays as an opposite spiker for Trentino Volley and the U.S. national team.[1][2][3][4]
He used to represent the Puerto Rico national team in the past. In 2022, the FIVB allowed him to change his sports nationality, and in 2024 Garcia became fully eligible to compete for the United States in international volleyball.[5]
Honours
[edit]College
[edit]- Domestic
- 2021
NCAA National Championship, with BYU Cougars
- 2021
Club
[edit]- FIVB Club World Championship
Betim 2021 – with Cucine Lube Civitanova
- Domestic
- 2021–22
Italian Championship, with Cucine Lube Civitanova[6]
- 2021–22
Individual awards
[edit]- 2021: NCAA National Championship – All-tournament team
References
[edit]- ^ "L'opposto portoricano Gabi Garcia Fernandez è della Cucine Lube". legavolley.it (in Italian). May 15, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ "Garcia Fernandez signs professional contract with Italian club A.S. Volley Lube". BYU Cougars. May 17, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
- ^ "Ecco il nuovo opposto: Gabi Garcia Fernandez è bianconero". Pallavolo Padova. June 6, 2023. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
- ^ "Colpo a sorpresa per Trento: Gabi Garcia sarà il vice Rychlicki". volleynews.it. June 8, 2024. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
- ^ "FIVB Approves Transfer of Garcia Fernández to USA Volleyball". USA Volleyball. March 31, 2022. Retrieved November 16, 2022.
- ^ "La Cucine Lube Civitanova è Campione d'Italia 2021/22. Settimo Scudetto per i marchigiani". Italian Volleyball Federation (in Italian). May 11, 2022. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Gabriel Garcia Fernandez.
- Player profile at the European Volleyball Confederation
- Player profile at LegaVolley.it (in Italian)
- Player profile at Volleybox.net