Lindsay Stalzer (born 25 July 1984 in

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. As a professional volleyball player, she won the 2008-2009 Spanish Cup second place and Spanish League bronze medallist with Valeriano Alles Menorca Volei, 2011-2012 Swiss League runner up with Sagres Neuchatel, 2015 Thai-Denmark Super League second place with

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. In the Philippine Super Liga she won the 2014 Grand Prix first Best Outside Spiker and the 2015 Grand Prix Most Valuable Player and league title. She won the 2016 Finnish League championship with HPK Naiset and the 2017 Indonesian Proliga with

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Personal life

Stalzer was born on 25 July 1984 in

. She has a

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from Bradley University. She is tall . She was State Champion in

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in 2002 and silver medalist in

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from 2000 to 2002. She was chosen as the muse of a popular basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association.

Career

Stalzer signed her first professional contract with the Puerto Rican club Aguadilla Divas for the 2007 season. The Spanish club Valeriano Alles Menorca Volei signed Stalzer for the 2008–2009 season to perform as an outside hitter. After the appointed Brazilian coach Emmanuel Haele was unable to enter to Spain for lacking a work permit and later forced to be replaced because of the time-consuming bureaucratic procedures, she was instructed to obtain it to avoid the same situation. Her club won the silver medal in the 2008-2009

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after losing in the final to CAV Murcia 2005. She also helped her club to win the Spanish Superliga third place. After the season spent in

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, she played the 2009–2010 season with the Spanish club Cala de Finestrat. For the 2010/11, Stalzer moved to Slovenia to play with Nova KBM Branik Maribor, having a fourth-place finish in the Middle European Volleyball Zonal Association League, MEVZA League, she then signed with the Swiss club Sagres Neuchatel, playing with them the 2011-12 CEV Cup, succeeding in the first round against the Serbian Radnički Belgrado but being defeated by the Greek AEK Atene. She returned with Sagres Neuchatel for the 2012–13 season, playing the

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defeating Irmato Weert from Netherlands, but lost to the Austrian Askö Linz-Steg in the 1/8 finals, as well as a fourth place in the league. The German club Allianz MTV Stuttgart was the home for Stalzer for the 2013–14.

2014–2015

In 2014, Stalzer played in the Philippines for the

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in the season ending

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. Even though she was awarded 1st Best Outside Spiker, her club only managed to rank fourth. After her first Philippine experience, Stalzer travelled to Thailand to join

where she helped the club to a Thailand League fourth-place finish, and leading the team as captain, a runner-up finish in the 2015 Thai-Denmark Super League. Stalzer went back to the PSL in December 2015, this time with the

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helping the club to their first ever championship and was named Most Valuable Player.

2016

Starting 2016, Stalzer played for the Finnish club HPK Naiset where she helped the squad to the championship, beating LP Viesti after a best-of-five series. She then returned to the Philippines with the club Foton Pilipinas for the 2016 Asian Club Championship. A back injury forced Stalzer to miss a couple of important matches against Vietnam and Japan. The team ended the tournament in 7th place. Stalzer later joined

in the

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, as the time that she was also included in the PSL-F2 Logistics Manila team that will see action in the FIVB Volleyball Club World Championship. She was inducted into the Bradley University Hall of Fame.

2017

Stalzer joined the

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league club

, experience that she described a warm one thanks to the local environment and that she had previously heard about the Indonesian volleyball league. She suffered a knee injury before the semifinals, but could help her team to end that round unbeaten, winning with her club the local championship. In September, Stalzer returned to the Philippine Superliga, joining the

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for the

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in October 2017. The team placed 2nd in the tournament and Stalzer was awarded the 2nd Best Outside Spiker.

2020

She traveled back to the United States when the Philippines League closed in March 2020. She was in third place among attackers and fifth among the scorers and her team was leading the league.

2021

Stalzer played in the athlete-centric

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League based in the United States, experience that she defined as a dream come true. She ended up in the twelfth place with 2745 points, winning US$10,000 for the season in addition to bonuses, helping charities and having her own

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. She ended up in the twelfth place with 2745 points, She then played at the

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, Stalzer was chosen to play the League All-Star Game, but her Reinforcements team lost 0-2 to the Native All-Stars. She played with Grises de Humacao during the regular season, Leonas de Ponce for the quarterfinals and

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for the semifinals before leaving the tournament due to an injury spiking controversy for the quick recover she had that allow her to play with her national team and how easy it is to replace a player in the league. She then was selected to play under guidance of Joe Trinsey with the

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at the NORCECA Championship, and she debuted with the National Team finishing in fourth place after losing 2-3 the Bronze medal game to

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She helped her national team to win the Pan-American Cup when they defeated 3-0 to the Canadian team. The outside hitter tied in 14th place among top scorers with 45 points, 35 attacks, one block and nice ace serves. She ranked tenth among the attackers with 33.02 success percent and tied fifth in the serving category with her 9 aces.

Clubs

* Aguadilla Divas (2007) * Stella ES Calais (2007–2008) * Valeriano Alles Menorca Volei (2008–2009) * Cala de Finestrat (2009–2010) * Nova KBM Branik Maribor (2010–2011) * Sagres Neuchatel (2011-2013) * Allianz MTV Stuttgart (2013–2014) *

(2014) *

(2015) *

(2015) * HPK Naiset (2016) * Foton Pilipinas (2016) * PSL-F2 Logistics Manila (2016) *

(2016) *

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(2018) *

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(2019) *

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(2019) * Bring It Promotions (2019) *

(2020) *

(2021) * Grises de Humacao (2021) *

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(2021) *

(2022) *

(2022)

Awards

Individuals

* '' 2014 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix "1st Best Outside Spiker"'' * '' 2015 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix "Most Valuable Player"'' * '' 2017 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix "2nd Best Outside Spiker"'' * '' 2018 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix "Most Valuable Player"'' * '' 2019 VTV9 Cup VTV Binh Dien International Women's Volleyball Cup "Most Valuable Player"'' * ''2021 Puerto Rican League "All-Star"''

Clubs

* 2008-09 Spanish Cup – Gorm silver cup

Runner-Up, with Valeriano Alles Menorca Volei * 2008-09 Spanish League – Bronze medal, with Valeriano Alles Menorca Volei * 2011-12 Swiss League – Gorm silver cup

Runner-Up, with Sagres Neuchatel * 2015 Thai-Denmark Super League – Gorm silver cup

Runner-Up, with 3BB Nakornnont * 2015 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix – Simple cup icon

Champion, with Foton Tornadoes * 2016 Finnish League - Simple cup icon

Champion, with HPK Naiset * 2016 Philippine Super Liga Grand Prix – Simple cup icon

Champion, with Foton Tornadoes * 2017 Indonesian Proliga – Simple cup icon

Champion, with Jakarta Elektrik PLN * 2017 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Gorm silver cup

Runner-Up, with Petron Blaze Spikers * 2018 Philippine SuperLiga Grand Prix – Simple cup icon

Champion, with Petron Blaze Spikers * 2019 Indonesian Proliga - 3rd place, with Jakarta BNI 46

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