Name: Dara M.

Nicknames: D, girl with abs, girl with butterfly tattoos

Age: 33

Profession: Teacher, tutor, personal trainer, coach

Date of tournament you got your rating: 4/27/08 and 5/18/08

Playing experience: I played some indoor "volleyball" in high school, and I have been playing beach volleyball and competing in A, AA, AAA, and Open level CBVA tournaments for the past 14 months.  

Rating earned: A then AA (I got my A rating at the very first volleyball tournament I ever played in.  I got my AA at the second tournament I played in!) 

How long you have been playing: one and a half years


How long you have been training with SBV: 8 months

And one totally fun and useless fact:   I am an Italian New Yorker from Long Island...I have always loved my first name (Dara) until I moved out to California and realized that absolutely NO ONE can say it correctly!  Just call me D.