Cecilia Tait

Cecilia Tait
Cecilia Tait 2012
portrait
Date of birth	May 2, 1962
place of birth	Lima , Peru
size	1.83 m
position	attack
societies
1976–1982 1982–1983 1983–1984 1985–1986 1986–1989 1989–1992 1992–1993	Deportivo Bancoper Lima Ito Yokado Tokyo Deportivo Bancoper Lima ISA Infissi Fano Pallavolo Reggio Calabria Sadia Esporte Club São Paulo SV Lohhof
National team
1978-1988	Peruvian national team
successes
1979 1979 1980 1982 1983 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1987 1987 1988 1988 1989 1990 1990 1991 1991 1991	Silver Pan American Games South American Champion Olympic Sixth Vice World Champion Bronze Pan American Games South American Champion Olympic Fourth South American Champion World Cup Third Silver Pan American Games South American Champion Second European Cup Winners' Cup Second CEV Cup Olympic Silver Winner CEV Cup Brazilian Club Champion American South American Club Champion
Status: May 15, 2020

Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta (born May 2, 1962 in Lima ) is a Peruvian national volleyball player and politician .

Volleyball career

Tait took part in the Olympic Games three times in a row with the Peruvian national team (1980, 1984 and 1988) and won the silver medal in 1988 in Seoul . She also finished second at the 1982 World Championships in her home country and third in 1986 in Czechoslovakia .

At the club level, Tait started at Deportivo Bancoper Lima. Later on, the left-hander played abroad with Ito Yokado in Tokyo and in Italy with ISA Infissi Fano and Pallavolo Reggio Calabria , with whom she won the European club competitions after two second places in the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1987 and in the CEV Cup in 1989 Won the CEV Cup. Tait then spent three years in Brazil at Sadia Esporte Club São Paulo , during which time he won the Brazilian and South American titles twice, and the Club World Cup in 1991 . In the 1992/93 season she played for German Bundesliga club SV Lohhof .

Tait has received several awards as “Most Valuable Player” ( MVP ), “Best Attacker” etc. In 2005 she was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame .

politician

Tait became involved in politics from 1998 and was a Peruvian Congressman from 2000 to 2016 .

Private

Tait has been married twice and has a daughter from both relationships. In 2010 she overcame breast cancer .

Web links

• Cecilia Tait in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at volleybox.net (English)
• Hall of Fame (English)
• Congressman Profile (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dionne Comettant López: CECILIA TAIT: Celebra la Vida. ellosyellas.com, May 10, 2019, accessed May 15, 2020 (Spanish).