Regla Bell


Regla Maritza Bell MacKenzie is one of the great legends of Cuban and world volleyball. A left-handed attacker of tremendous power and charisma, she was a key figure in the volleyball team|Cuban national team] known as “Las Espectaculares Morenas del Caribe”, the squad that dominated women’s world volleyball in the 1990s and early 2000s.
With Cuba, she won three Olympic gold medals, two World Championship titles and four FIVB Volleyball [Women's World Cup|World Cups]. Together with her teammate Lilia Izquierdo, they are the only players to have been present for all nine major titles of that golden era of Cuban volleyball and remain, to this day, the only players worldwide to have achieved such accomplishments. She was captain of the national team at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
After shining with the national team, she played in professional leagues in Italy, Brazil and Spain. She is currently dedicated to training and developing young volleyball players.
Her induction into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame confirmed the impact and legacy of a true “golden left-hander.”

Career

National team

Bell won three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games">Volleyball at the Summer Olympics">Olympic Games, two consecutive gold medals at the FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, and four consecutive gold medals at the FIVB Volleyball World Cup.
She was captain of the Cuban team at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.
Bell also won gold medals at the Pan American Games in 1991 and 1995, a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games, and seven gold medals at the NORCECA Women’s Volleyball Championship. She also claimed gold medals in the following competitions: two in the World Grand Prix, six in the Montreux Volley Masters and two in the World Top Four.
Among other accolades, she amassed 28 gold medals, 9 silver medals and 3 bronze medals in the most important world competitions with the senior Cuban women’s national volleyball team.

Club volleyball

For the regular season of the 2008–09 Spanish Superliga, Bell was elected MVP and Best Scorer after hitting 439 kills during that regular league.
Bell played for São Caetano/Blausiegel in Brazil for the 2009–10 season. She then played for the Spanish team Fígaro Peluqueros Tenerife for the 2010-11 season.
Bell played for the Indonesian club Monokwari Valeria during the 2012–13 season of the Indonesian volleyball league, and later signed up for a two-month contract with PLDT HOME TVolution, a Philippine volleyball team that participated at the 2014 Asian Women's Club Volleyball Championship.

Clubs

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Individuals