2022 Beach Volleyball Roster

15 Ana Costa

  • Position Player
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Last School(s) Instituto Dom Fernando Gomes
  • Hometown Sergipe, Brazil

Biography

As a Fifth-Year (2022)
• AVCA Second-Team All-American
• Went 26-12 as an individual, which ranks fifth in school history for most wins in a season (26)
• Set the school record for most wins at the No. 1 position as she went 20-10 at the top spot
• Has the sixth-highest career winning percentage in school history at .684
• Recorded ranked victories over No. 15 Long Beach State, No. 9 Hawaii, No. 18 Pepperdine and No. 12 Cal Poly alongside Mima Mirkovic
• Defeated No. 3 UCLA, No. 9 Stanford, No. 7 Grand Canyon, No. 8 Stanford and No. 6 LSU while teamed with Maya Gessner

In her Stetson Career (2019-21): 
• 61-25 career record
• Finished career eighth in school history in wins (61) and ninth in winning pct. (.709).

As a Senior (2021 at Stetson)
• ASUN Pair of the Year
• 4x ASUN Pair of the Week (March 10, 24, 31, April 13)
• ASUN Honor Roll 
• Went 23-9 on the season
• Played entire season with Carly Perales at Pair 1 and became the first ASUN pair ever to win four Pair of the Week Awards in the same season
• Earned ASUN All-Tournament team honors •
National MoVR ranking of 20/21 (61.62)
• Competed against the #1 Pair from ranked opponents 18 times and won 10 of those matches
• Became the first Stetson duo to defeat a No. 1 Pair from the No. 1 team in the country when they defeated FSU's Alaina Chacon and Molly McBain in straight sets (March 19)
• Also picked up ranked wins over #9 TCU, #13/14/15 South Carolina (three times), #13/14 FAU (twice), #17/18 Georgia State (twice), and #20 FGCU
• Went 9-2 vs. ASUN opponents
• Won 10 in a row during one stretch
• 17 of their 23 wins came in straight sets.

As a Junior (2020 at Stetson)
• Named ASUN Pair of the Week (Feb. 25)
• ASUN Honor Roll 
• Went 11-3 with Kyce Martins at Pair 1 and Pair 2
• Won their first 10 matches of the season
• Went 5-0 at the Seminole Beach Bash and 4-0 and the Stetson Spring Fling
• Picked up wins over seven ranked opponents, including Top 10 wins over No. 2 Florida State and No. 7 Cal Poly
• Ranked 59th in MoVR rankings.

As a Sophomore (2019 at Stetson):  
• ASUN First Team All-Conference
• ASUN Honor Roll
• Went 27-13 with Rachel Noble at Pair 3
• Tied for the fifth-most wins by a Stetson pair in school history
• Had the second-most wins for any Pair 3 in the NCAA
• Went 2-1 in the NCAA Championship, posting a straight set win over No. 1 Southern Cal and a three-set win over No. 5 LSU
• Also went 2-1 in the ASUN Championship with wins over Coastal Carolina and FGCU 
• Rallied for a crucial point on Court 3 in Stetson's 3-2 win over FGCU in the title match
• Went 7-1 in ASUN regular season play (15-3 in sets)
• Posted 12 wins against ranked opponents, including top 10 wins over #8 Long Beach State, #10 South Carolina, #8 FIU (twice), #4 LSU, #1 USC, and #5 LSU.

As a Freshman (2018 at St. Petersburg College): 
• Played at the No. 1 seed in beach
• In indoor, was a two-time first team all-conference selection and an all-tournament team performer at the state tournament
• Helped lead her team to a 18-7 record and a trip to the national tournament
• Named SPC Freshman of the Year (2016).

International: 
• Was Brazil's U19 national champion in 2015
• Earned third-place finishes at the U21 and U23 national tournaments in 2015 and 2016
• Had an incredible run at the U19 World Championship in Cyprus in 2016, winning two qualifiers, all three pool play matches, a round of 16 match and a quarterfinal match to take home fourth place
• Was also a high school world champion in 2013 and a two-time Brazilian school champion in 2012 and 2014.
• Champion of the Brazilian School Championship - 2012
• Champion of the World School Championship – Italy, 2013
• 2nd of the National Championship (U19) – 2013 
• Champion of the International Championship for countries which speaks Portuguese -Angola, 2014 
• Champion of the Brazilian School Championship - 2014
• Champion of the National Championship (U19) - 2015 
• 2nd of the National Championship (U19) - 2015 
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U21) - 2015 
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U23) - 2015 
• 5th place in the World School Championship- Brazil, 2015 
• 2nd place in the Brazilian School Championship-2015 
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U21)-2016 
• 3rd place in the National Championship (U23)-2016 
• 4th place in the world Championship FIVB (U19)- Cyprus,2016 
• 2016 Brazilian Beach Volleyball national team 

Personal:
• Ana Carolina de Almeida Costa was born in Colatina, Espirito Santo, Brazil
• Getting her UC Berkeley certificate in both business administration and immersive entrepreneurship
• The daughter of Sandra and Jorge Costa
• Has a brother, Luis Felipe de Almeida Costa