2025 Women's Beach Volleyball Roster
Roster
Daniela Alvarez
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- IES Francisco Rosginer
- Hometown:
- Asturias, Spain
2025 | Graduate Student
Competed in every match during the 2025 season … Went 27-6 … Competed alongside Tania Moreno (16-4), Hailey Hamlett (10-1), Hallie Corinne (1-1) … Appeared exclusively in the No. 1 position … Had 23 sweeps … Only had two losses in her final 20 matches of the season … Posted three NCAA Tournament wins, including the National Championship clincher against LMU (5/4) ... Went 5-1 from the No. 1 spot during the OUTRIGGER Duke Kahanamoku Beach Classic alongside Moreno, picking up wins over No. 5 Stanford (2/20), No. 7 LMU (2/21), No. 11 Arizona State (2/21), No. 12 Hawai’i (2/22) and No. 1 USC (2/22), to earn Big 12 Pair of the Week … AWARDS: AVCA Collegiate Beach Player of the Year … Spring Academic All-Big 12 Team ... All-Big 12 Team … First Team AVCA All-American … Big 12 Pair of the Week (Feb. 26 w/ Moreno).
2023-24 | Gap Year
Took a gap year off of school with partner Tania Moreno and qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games under Team Spain … First duo in program history to be named Olympians … Started the games ranked No. 14 on the FIVB Provisional Olympic Ranking with 5,700 points, and finished fifth … Downing Placette/Richard from France (2-0), Ludwig/Lippman from Germany (2-0), Schoon/Stam from the Netherlands(2-1) …Other notable wins from the past year include Bronze at the 2023 Challenge Beach Pro Tour in Nuvali, Bronze at the 2023 Challenge Beach Pro Tour in Goa, Top five at the 2023 Challenge Beach Pro Tour Chiang Mai, Bronze at the 2024 Challenge Beach Pro Tour Saquarema and Top five at the 2024 Challenge Beach Pro Tour Guadalajara
Before the 2023 season started was awarded preseason All-Conference Player of the Year and preseason All-Conference under CCSA ... Alvarez lived up to her accolades with the best record on the team from the Spring 2023 season, 37-1, and hit her 75th career win milestone ... Postseason worked on qualifications to represent Spain in the 2024 Summer Olympics with Moreno ... Notable wins include 2nd in the European Championships in Vienna, 9th at Edmonton and Jurmala Challenge, 5th in Espinho Challenge, as well as 17th in the Elite 16 in Montreal and Gstaad ... AWARDS: AVCA First Team All American ... AVCA Top Flight ... AVCA Pair of the Year (w/ Moreno) ... CCSA Pair of the Week (March 8th, March 15, March 29th w/ Moreno) ... CCSA Preseason All-Conference ... CCSA Preseason Player of the Year.
2022 | Junior
Before the 2022 season began, was awarded preseason CCSA All-Conference awards- preseason Player of the Year and preseason All-Conference ... Quickly lived up to these expectations when, for the second time in her career, was awarded both CCSA and AVCA Pair of the Week honors after season debuts (February 26-27) ... Played all matches from the No. 1 position, with Team Spain partner, Tania Moreno Mateeva ... Duo racked up 23 victories on the regular season with 11 over ranked opponents ... The pairing took notable victories over No. 1 UCLA, No. 4 Florida State, No. 4 LSU, No. 8 Cal Poly and No. 9 Hawaii ... Finished the season 28-6 as a pairing with 14 of those victories over ranked opponents ... AWARDS: AVCA Top Flight (w/ Moreno) ... CCSA Pair of teh Year (w/ Moreno) ... All-CCSA Team ... First Team AVCA All-American ... CCSA Pair of the Week (Feb. 27 w/ Moreno) ... AVCA Pair of the Week (Feb. 27 w/ Moreno)
2021 | Sophomore
Played all but one match at the No. 1 position with Team Spain partner, Tania Moreno Mateeva … Went 27-9 during the season … One of the top pairings in the country … Set program records for most wins by a freshman paring, 26 … Set program record for most ranked wins by a freshman pair, 11 ... Played in the 2020 International Volleyball World Tour in China with partner, Moreno ... Duo won three out of five matches, played U.S. gold medalists Brooke Sweat and Kerri Walsh Jennings ... Played in the 2021 International Volleyball World Tour in the Czech Republic and the 2021 European Under Age Volleyball Tournament in Austria with partner, Moreno winning a combined total of five matches ... Duo took 5th place in the 2021 European Under Age Tournament ... AWARDS: All-CCSA Freshman Team ... All-CCSA First Team ... AVCA Pair of the Week (Feb. 28 w/ Moreno)/
2020 | Freshman
Won five matches in her first season of collegiate action before the season was cut short due to the pandemic.
High School/Juniors
Formerly ranked the second-best amateur beach volleyball player in her native country of Spain... finished first in 2018 Spanish National Winter Championship and the 2019 National Queen Cup ... recorded three second-place finishes in international competition in 2019 ... finished third in the 2018 Nanjing U19 World Championships and fifth in the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires.
