Karina Ocasio
Encyclopedia
Karina Ocasio is a female volleyball
player
from Puerto Rico
, who competed for the Women's National Team
at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament
in Japan
. There the team ended up in eighth and last place, having received a wild card for the event after Peru and Kenya withdrew. Ocasio became Best Scorer at the event, alongside Kazakhstan's Yelena Pavlova
. She is Free Agent
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
player
Player (game)
A player of a game is a participant therein. The term 'player' is used with this same meaning both in game theory and in ordinary recreational games....
from Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
, who competed for the Women's National Team
Puerto Rico women's national volleyball team
The Puerto Rico women's national volleyball team represents the Puerto Rico in international volleyball competitions. The team failed to qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics by ending up in eighth and last place at the Olympic Qualifier in Japan...
at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament
2008 FIVB Women's World Olympic Qualification Tournament
The 2008 FIVB Women's World Olympic Qualification Tournament is a qualification tournament to determined the final four spots for the 2008 Summer Olympics...
in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. There the team ended up in eighth and last place, having received a wild card for the event after Peru and Kenya withdrew. Ocasio became Best Scorer at the event, alongside Kazakhstan's Yelena Pavlova
Yelena Pavlova
Yelena Pavlova is a female volleyball player from Kazakhstan, who captained the Women's National Team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan. There the team ended up in fifth place, and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics...
. She is Free Agent
Free agent
In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....
Individual
- 2008 Olympic Qualifier "Best Scorer"