Lucía Daniela Fresco (born 14 May 1991, in

Chajarí Chajarí is a city in the northeast of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It has 45.000 inhabitants per the , and it is the largest city in the Federación Department. It lies on Provincial Route 2, about 2 km east of the intersection wi ...

) is an

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player.

Career

She has been a part of the Argentina national team since 2009, appearing at the Pan-American Volleyball Cup (in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

), the

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(in

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), the

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(in

), the

2014 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship The 2014 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship, FIVB Women's World Championship was the seventeenth edition of the competition, contested by the 24 senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing bod ...

in Italy,

2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship The 2018 FIVB Women's World Championship was the eighteenth edition of the event, contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of the ' (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The final tournament was held in Japan from 29 Se ...

, the

2015 Pan American Games The 2015 Pan American Games (), officially the XVII Pan American Games () and commonly known as the Toronto 2015 Pan-Am Games (Toronto 2015), were a major international multi-sport event celebrated in the tradition of the Pan American Games, ...

in Canada, and the

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in Brazil. In the

2019 Pan American Games The 2019 Pan American Games (), officially the XVIII Pan American Games () and commonly known as Lima 2019, were a multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization held in Lima, Peru from July 26 to August 11, 2019, with preliminar ...

in Peru, Fresco won the bronze medal and was chosen as the tournament's best opposite. Nicknamed as 'la Rusa' (literally 'the Russian') by the Argentine press, she resumed playing in August 2014, after recovering from a right

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which kept her inactive for almost a year. At club level, Fresco played for Club Santa Rosa (in her native town of

), Boca Juniors, Sportclub Potsdam, Urbino and Soverato before moving to Pannaxiakos in September 2016. In 2017, she was hired by Békéscsabai RSE of the Hungarian league. In 2019 she returned to Boca Juniors (Arg.) and her team was champion, with Fresco being the best player.

Clubs

* Club Santa Rosa Chajarí (2003–2009) *

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(2009–2011) * SC Potsdam (2011–2014) * Tiboni Urbino (2014–2015) *

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(2015–2016) * AON Pannaxiakos Naxos (2016–17) *

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(2017–2019) *

(2019) *

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(2019–21) *

(2022) * Charleroi Volley (2022–present)

Personal life

Fresco, who is

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, took part in the #JugáConOrgullo (#PlayWithPride) alongside other LGBT Argentinian sportspeople like Sebastián Vega, Valentina Kogan, and Facundo Imhoff to fight discrimination in the Argentinian sportsculture.

References

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at Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile (Italian Serie A) {{DEFAULTSORT:Fresco, Lucia 1991 births Living people Argentine women's volleyball players 21st-century Argentine sportswomen Sportspeople from Entre Ríos Province Volleyball players at the 2015 Pan American Games Volleyball players at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic volleyball players for Argentina Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Opposite hitters Pan American Games bronze medalists in volleyball Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Argentine lesbian sportswomen LGBTQ volleyball players