Amanda Coneo | |||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||
Full name | Amanda Daniela Coneo Cardona | ||||||||||
Nationality | Colombian | ||||||||||
Born | Cartagena, Colombia | 20 December 1996||||||||||
Height | 177 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||
Spike | 314 cm (124 in) | ||||||||||
Block | 289 cm (114 in) | ||||||||||
Volleyball information | |||||||||||
Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||
Current club | ASPTT Mulhouse | ||||||||||
Number | 20 | ||||||||||
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Amanda Daniela Coneo Cardona (born Cartagena) is a Colombian volleyball player. She is part of the Colombia national team.
20 December 1996 inShe won the silver medal in the 2011 Colombia Junior Championship, representing Bolivar.[1]
Coneo participated in the 2012 Pan-American Cup in the senior category as a warm up for the 2012 Colombian National Games and also part of the Bolivar Ganador development program.[2] Colombia finished the competition in the eleventh place, with just one victory, achieved in the las match against Mexico.[3] She played the 2012 South American Girls championship, ranking in fifth place.[4][5]
In April, Coneo traveled to Guatemala to play the 2013 Youth Pan-American Cup ending up in seventh place.[6][7] She won the 2013 Colombian Championship in the senior category with Bolivar.[8] She won the 2013 Bolivarian Games bronze medal with her national team.[9]
Coneo played the 2013-14 Peruvian League[10] with the club Tupac Amaru.[11] She helped the Colombian national team to qualify for the first time to the FIVB World Grand Prix by reaching the 2014 Pan-American Cup seventh place.[12] Later, she won the 2014 U22 South American Championship silver medal and Best Outside Hitter award[13] and later the 2014 Junior South American Championship Best Outside Hitter award and her team finished in fifth place.[14][13] Coneo won the silver medal in the 2014 U23 Pan-American Cup held in Peru, when they lost the gold medal match 1–3 to the Dominican Republic.[15] She helped her national team to end up in the sixth place in the volleyball tournament held in the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico.[16] With Liga Bolivarense, she won the 2014 Colombian National Championship in the senior[17] and junior category.[11]
During the 2015 Pan-American Cup, Coneo ranked third among the scorers with 124 points, nonetheless, her national team finished in eight place.[18] She played in August the 2015 FIVB U23 World Championship where Colombia ranked tied in ninth place.[19][20] She participated in the 2015 FIVB World Grand Prix,[21][22] reaching the Group 3 Final Four and winning the group bronze medal.[23] With Liga Bolivarense she claimed the 2015 National Games championship[24] over the Antioquia team.[25] Coneo was selected to play the 2015 South American Championship[26] winning the bronze medal with her national team.[27]
In January 2016, she joined the Italian club Lardini Filottrano.[28] In May 2016, she played the 2016 Summer Olympics qualifier tournament in Puerto Rico, where her team failed the berth to the 2016 Summer Olympics after ranking second in the tournament.[29] Coneo participated in the 2016 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix[30] qualifying to the Final Four,[31] but losing the bronze medal match 2–3 to Peru.[32] With her national U22 team, she won the 2016 U22 South American Championship silver medal.[33] She signed for the Italian club Sab Grima Legnano from the A2 Championship[34] and became the first foreign player playing for them.[35]
Coneo played the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix group 2[36] and ranked in seventh place and 19th overall.[37] She won the 2017 Colombian Senior Championship as the captain of the Bolivar team, their fifth championship.[38] She played with her national senior team the 2017 South American Championship,[39] winning the silver medal when they lost 0–3 to Brazil.[40] She played in October the 2018 FIVB World Championship CSV qualification tournament, but her team could not get a berth for next year competition.[41] After an Italian A2 season where she scored 424 points, she re-signed with the Italian club Sab Volley Legnano for the 2017/18 season.[42]
Coneo was born in Cartagena, Colombia on 20 December 1996.[42] As of 2016 she was a Psychology student.[10] Her parents are Gabriel and Rocio and she has two siblings, Zuleima and Gabriela, who also played volleyball with the national team.[10]