Wilma Salas
{{short description|Cuban volleyball player}}
{{family name hatnote|Salas|Rosell|lang=Spanish}}
{{Infobox volleyball biography
| name = Wilma Salas
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| fullname = Wilma Salas Rosell
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| nationality = Cuba
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|3|9|df=y}}
| birth_place = Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
| hometown =
| height = 1.88 m
| weight = 65 kg
| spike = 321 cm
| block = 309 cm
| college =
| position = Wing Spiker / Opposite
| currentclub =
| currentnumber =
| years1 = 2007-2012
| team1 = Santiago de Cuba
| years2 = 2014–2015
| team2 = Rabita Baku
| years3 = 2015–2016
| team3 = Çanakkale Belediyespor
| years4 = 2016–2018
| team4 = Halkbank Ankara
| years5 = 2018–2019
| team5 = Cuneo Volley
| years6 = 2019
| team6 = Petro Gazz Angels
| years7 = 2019–2021
| team7 = KPS Chemik Police
| years8 = 2021–2023
| team8 = Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus
| years9 = 2023–2024
| team9 = Beşiktaş JK
| years10 = 2023–2024
| team10 = Beşiktaş JK
| years11 = 2024
| team11 = Petro Gazz Angels
| years12 = 2024–2025
| team12 = Roma
| years13 = 2025
| team13 = PLDT High Speed Hitters
| nationalyears = 2010–
| nationalteam = Cuba
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Women's volleyball }}
{{MedalCountry | {{CUB}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | Pan American Games }}
{{MedalSilver | 2011 Guadalajara | Team }}
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Wilma Salas Rosell (born 9 March 1991) is a Cuban female volleyball player. She was part of the Cuba women's national volleyball team. She currently plays in Italian Volley League for Roma Volley Club (women's volleyball).
She participated at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan.,{{cite web |title=Cuban volleyball team at the 2010 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship |url=http://www.fivb.org/en/volleyball/competitions/worldchampionships/2010/women/Team_Roster.asp?Tourn=WWCH2010&Team=CUB |work=www.fivb.org |access-date=28 November 2021}} when she used to play with Santiago de Cuba.
Career
Wilma Salas' career started at the age of 16 in Cuban championship, playing for the local team of Santiago de Cuba, where she remained until 2012. After two years of inactivity, she returned to the field in the 2014-15 season in Azerbaijan Super League, when she signed her first professional contract with Rabitə Baku,{{cite web |title=Salas in Rabitə Baku |url=http://www.volleywood.net/leagues/azerbaijan-leagues/rabita-baku-hires-4-cuban-players/ |work=www.volleywood.net |date=14 May 2014 |access-date=28 November 2021}} winning the championship. She also received the local sporting nationality, becoming also known as Wilma Aslihanova. In the following championship she moved to Turkey, where she defended the colors of Çanakkale, in Turkish League, also remaining there in the 2016-17 season, playing with the Halkbank Ankara shirt.
For the 2018-19 championship Wilma Salas played for Cuneo Volley,{{cite web |title=Wilma Salas in Cuneo Volley |url=https://volleymob.com/cuban-national-teamer-wilma-salas-to-play-in-italian-league/ |work=volleymob.com |date=22 October 2018 |access-date=28 November 2021}} in the Italian League. Then she moved to Philippines for the end of the season, where she played in the local championship with the Petro Gazz Angels.{{cite web |title=Wilma Salas in Petro Gazz Angels |url=https://www.philstar.com/sports/2019/05/30/1922184/wilma-salas-keeping-low-profile-pvls-hottest-team |work=www.philstar.com |access-date=28 November 2021}} The following season she moved to the Polish club of Chemik Police,{{cite web |title=Wilma Salas in Chemik Police |url=https://worldofvolley.com/latest_news/poland/104757/pol-w-former-cuba-national-team-member-salas-signs-with-chemik.html |work=www.philstar.com |date=6 June 2019 |access-date=28 November 2021}} winning one Super Cup, two Polish Cups and two league titles, although she did not play most of the 2020-21 season due to a serious knee injury, which occurred in the initial part of the championship.{{cite web |title=Wilma Salas' serious injury |url=https://worldofvolley.com/latest_news/poland/111217/pol-w-chemiks-first-win-overshadowed-by-injury-of-salas.html |work=worldofvolley.com |date=11 October 2020 |access-date=28 November 2021}}
In the 2021-22 season Salas returned to the field in Hellenic Volley League for Greek champions Olympiacos Piraeus.{{cite web |title=Wilma Salas in Olympiacos Piraeus |url=https://www.olympiacossfp.gr/en/node/31544 |work=www.olympiacossfp.gr |access-date=28 November 2021 |archive-date=28 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128181814/https://www.olympiacossfp.gr/en/node/31544 |url-status=dead }}{{in lang|el}}
Salas returned for Petro Gazz for the 2024 Premier Volleyball League Reinforced Conference. She was then tapped as a foreign player for the PLDT High Speed Hitters's stint at the 2025 AVC Women's Champions League.{{cite news |last1=Valencia |first1=Justin |title=PLDT signs Wilma Salas for AVC club tilt |url=https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/tbt/pldt-signs-wilma-salas-for-avc-club-tilt/334481 |access-date=10 April 2025 |work=Tiebreaker Times |date=10 April 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Dannug |first1=Jonash |title=In just two weeks, Wilma Salas finds family in PLDT |url=https://tiebreakertimes.com.ph/tbt/in-just-two-weeks-wilma-salas-finds-family-in-pldt/335715 |access-date=24 April 2025 |work=Tiebreaker Times |date=24 April 2025}}
=International career=
In 2008 Wilma Salas made her debut in the Cuban national team, with which a year later she became the protagonist of the 2010 world championship qualifiers, gaining access to the world championship and being awarded as the best attacker and best server of the tournament. Later that year she won the bronze medal at the 2009 North American Championship, and in 2011 she won the silver medal at the Pan American Games. In 2012 she wore the national team shirt for the last time, winning a bronze medal again, this time in the Pan-American Cup.
Sporting achievements
=National Team=
=Clubs=
==International competitions==
- 2015 16px Women's CEV Cup, with Rabita Baku
- 2016 16px BVA Cup with Çanakkale Belediyespor
==National championships==
- 2009/2010 16px Cuban Championship, with Santiago de Cuba
- 2010/2011 16px Cuban Championship, with Santiago de Cuba
- 2014/2015 16px Azerbaijan Championship, with Rabita Baku
- 2019/2020 16px Polish Championship, with Chemik Police
- 2020/2021 16px Polish Championship, with Chemik Police
==National trophies==
- 2019 16px Polish Super Cup, with Chemik Police
- 2020 16px Polish Super Cup, with Chemik Police
- 2019/2020 16px Polish Cup, with Chemik Police
- 2020/2021 16px Polish Cup, with Chemik Police
==Individual awards==
References
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External links
- [https://women.volleybox.net/wilma-salas-p1382/indoor_tournaments Profile - clubs - titles] at women.volleybox.net
- [https://www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldChampionships/2010/Women/Players.asp?Tourn=WWCH2010&Team=CUB&No=124086 Profile] at www.fivb.org
- [https://www-old.cev.eu/Competition-Area/CompetitionTeamDetails.aspx?TeamID=12394&ID=1320 Olympiacos team 2021-22] at cev.eu
- [https://www.legavolleyfemminile.it/player/salas-wilma/SAL-WIL-91/ Profile] at Italian Women's Volleyball League
- [https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/06/03/o-olympiakos-anakoinose-tin-apoktisi-tis-salas/ Wilma Salas in Olympiacos Piraeus] at www.athina984.gr
- [https://championsleague.cev.eu/en/women/team/12054-grupa-azoty-chemik-police/player/59254-salas-rosell-wilma Sslas in CEV Champions League] at cev.eu
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Category:Cuban women's volleyball players
Category:Olympiacos SFP (women's volleyball) players
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Volleyball players at the 2011 Pan American Games
Category:Pan American Games silver medalists for Cuba
Category:Pan American Games medalists in volleyball
Category:Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games
Category:21st-century Cuban sportswomen