Naiane Rios

ABOUT NAIANE RIOS

Brazilian female volleyball player who is a lifter for the Vôlei Bauru club. She competed at the 2015 U23 World Championship and the 2017 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix. She is an outspoken activist for LGBTQ rights and feminism.

She played volleyball for the first time in 2000, and immediately fell in love with the sport.

She has won the Junior South American Championship 'best setter' award twice - once in 2010, and again in 2012.

Her mother is a sociologist and her father is a former volleyball player.

Dani Lins and Adenízia Ferreira are also Brazilian volleyball players.