Ruxandra Dumitrescu

Ruxandra Dumitrescu (born April 20, 1977) is a retired volleyball player born in Galați, Romania. She competed with the Romania women's national volleyball team at the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Brazil.[1] She is a naturalized Greek citizen, and competed with the Greece women's national volleyball team from Athens 2004 Olympic Games until 2009. She is 186 cm tall.

Ruxandra Dumitrescu
Personal information
NationalityRomania / Greece
Born (1977-04-20) 20 April 1977
Galați, Romania
Height186 m (610 ft 3 in)
Volleyball information
Number18 (national team)

Shirt number nr.9-FOVrilissia and Panathinaikos (retired in her honour)

National recordwoman in winning Volleyball Greek Cups (8 winning Greek Cups)
Career
YearsTeams
1994-1997
1997-2003
2003-2010
2013-2014		 Dacia Pitesti
FO Vrilissia
Panathinaikos
Iraklis Kifisias
National team
1994
2004		 Romania
Greece

Dumitrescu played on club level with Dacia Pitesti 1994-1997. In her career with Vrilissia Athens Team (1997-2003), she won one championship, three Greek cups, and a bronze medal in European Cup and with Panathinaikos women's volleyball team (2003–10), winning six championships, five cups, and reached the 2009 final of the CEV Women's Challenge Cup. Her shirt number (9) was retired by the club in her honour. She was voted Most Valuable Player of the Greek championship in 2009 and Most Valuable Player of the Greek Cup Final Four twice, in 2008 and 2009.

She is a devoted fan of Panathinaikos A.O. and in 2012 she was a candidate with the Panathinaikos Movement. She was married to Alexandros Nikolaidis and they have a son named Filippos.

References
  1. "Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 1994 - Teams Composition. - Romania". todor66.com. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

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