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Historic victory for Puerto Rico in volleyball
- Updated: May 23, 2016
San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 22, 2016 – It was a historic day for volleyball in Puerto Rico as its women’s national team achieved on Sunday something never done before: Qualifying to the Olympic Games.
The members of this team probably will be catapulted to the category of heroines in this small island in the Caribbean Sea with their names indelibly carved in the minds of those who watched them battling for the last berth available to the Rio Olympic Games.
“The 22nd of May will go to the history of the sport in Puerto Rico and the credit goes to all the coaches and support personnel who worked in favor of this achievement, this feat,” said an emotional coach Juan Carlos Núñez following the straight-set 3-0 (25-8, 25-23, 25-15) victory over Kenya on Sunday evening in front of a partisan crowd at Roberto Clemente Coliseum of San Juan.
The wild celebration began even before the first whistle with the fans chanting and dancing in the stands to the beat of Latin rhythms and when the match started they roared and cheered for every point until the conclusion of the actions when Daly Santana sealed the triumph with a bomb from the back court in the third …
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