Destinee Hooker

As of August 12, 2012

Destinee Hooker Dante ( born September 7, 1987 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany ) is an American volleyball player.

Career

Destinee Hooker comes from an athletic family. Her parents were both basketball and her sister Marshevet Myers finished at the Olympic Games 2008 in fifth in the 200 -meter run. Your own career began at Southwest High School. There she was active not only in the volleyball team at school, but in 2004 and 2005, Texas high-jump champion. The parallel career in volleyball and high jump put Hooker during her studies at the University of Texas at Austin continued. The Diagonalangreiferin received in the NCAA championship in the high jump and various awards they won the 2009 championship in the hall and outside. In January 2008, she was first appointed to the U.S. National Team, but she missed the Olympic tournament in Beijing. 2010 Hooker played first in South Korea GS Caltex Seoul at KIXX and Puerto Rico at Pinkin de Corozal, before she moved to the Italian first division Robur Sports Pesaro. In the same year she won the United States Grand Prix and finished fifth at the World Championships. 2011 managed the national team defend their title at the Grand Prix and Hooker was awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP). The World Cup 2011 ended the U.S. in second place. In the season 2011/12 the Diagonalangreiferin played the Brazilian club Clube Osasco Voleibol. After the third Grand Prix victory in Serie she won in 2012 at the Olympic Games in London, the silver medal. After the tournament, she moved to the Russian first division club Dynamo Krasnodar VK.