Winifer Fernández

Winifer Fernández
Personal information
Full nameWinifer María Fernández Pérez
NationalityDominican
Born (1995-01-06) 6 January 1995
Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago Province, Dominican Republic
HometownCienfuegos, Santiago de los Caballeros
Height1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight62 kg (137 lb)
Spike270 cm (106 in)
Block265 cm (104 in)
Volleyball information
PositionLibero
Career
YearsTeams
2008Santiago
2010–2011Cienfuegos
2012Santiago
2013–2014Telekom Baku
2014–2015Rabita Baku
2015-Mirador
2015–2017Cienfuegos
National team
2012 -Dominican Republic
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing the  Dominican Republic
Pan-American Cup
2016 Santo DomingoTeam
2015 Lima/CallaoTeam
NORCECA Championship
2015 MichoacanTeam
Junior Pan American Cup
2013 HavanaTeam
Bolivarian Games
2017 Santa MartaTeam
Last updated: September 2017

Winifer María Fernández Pérez (born 6 January 1995) is a Dominican female volleyball player. With her club Mirador she competed at the 2015 FIVB Club World Championship. She became well known after a video and later some photos of her playing and training, and personal photos of her--some of them fake--went viral in July 2016.

In 2010 she won the NORCECA U18 continental championship Best Libero, Digger and Receiver awards, repeating this awards in the 2012 NORCECA U20 Championship, this time with the gold medal and the Most Valuable Player award. She also won the 2012 U23 Pan-American Cup gold medal just before debuting with the senior national team in the 2012 FIVB World Grand Prix. Fernández won the World Grand Prix Group 2, 2016 Pan-American Cup and the 2017 Bolivarian Games gold medals with her senior team. She won the 2008 Dominican Republic League bronze medal and played with the Azerbaijani clubs Telekom Baku and Rabita Baku before playing, with Mirador, in the 2015 Club World Championship.