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Stella Christodoulou
Stella Christodoulou
Personal information
Full name	Styliani Christodoulou
Nationality	Greece
Born	July 19, 1991 (age 33); Athens, Greece
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Spike	285 cm (112 in)
Block	275 cm (108 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Setter
Current club	AO Thiras
Number	14 (club and national team)
Career
2000–2007; 2007–2010; 2011–2020; 2021; 2021–2023; 2023–	Enosi Vyrona Athens; Panellinios G.S. Athens; Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus; Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor; Olympiacos S.F. Piraeus; AO Thiras
National team
	Hellas - 93 caps (05.2018)
	Last updated: 30 October 2023

Stella Christodoulou (Greek: Στέλλα Χριστοδούλου; born July 19, 1991, in Athens, Greece) is a female professional volleyball player from Greece, who is a member of the Greece women's national volleyball team.^[1] At club level, she plays in Hellenic Volley League for Greek club AO Thiras.

Career

Stella Christodoulou started her career from Enosi Virona. In 2007 she was transferred at Panellinios G.S. Athens. In 2010, she signed for Panathinaikos Athens, but Panellinios blocked her transfer at Sports Court.^[2] Christodoulou was inactive during 2010–11 season. In 2011 she was transferred to Olympiacos Piraeus.^[3] Since her arrival at the red-whites of Piraeus, Christodoulou has won 7 Hellenic Championships, 8 Hellenic Cups, the silver medal of the 2016–17 CEV Women's Challenge Cup but mainly the golden medal of the same competition in 2017-18 season.

In atomic level she has been named two times Hellenic Championship MVP, in 2016–17^[4] and 2018–19 ^[5] seasons and two more times Hellenic Cup MVP in 2014^[6] and 2019^[7] editions. However, her most important individual award was the European Challenge Cup MVP, in the 2018 edition of the competition.^[8]

Stella Christooulou, who is considered to be one of the ever best setters in the Hellenic women's volleyball, renewed her contract with the Piraeus team in June 2020, for two more years.^[9] In December 2020 the Hellenic championship was uncertain whether it would continue due to COVID-19 disease and Olympiacos allowed their players (despite their contracts) to move abroad until next summer. Thus, Stella Christooulou moved to Turkish "Sultanlar Ligi" for Aydın Büyükşehir Belediyespor,^[10] where she met her compatriot Anthi Vassilantonaki.

International career

Stella Christodoulou is a member of the Hellenic National Team. She began her international career in 2007 with the Junior (U19) team, competing in the preliminary round of 2008 Junior Women's European Championship.^[11] One year later she was promoted to the Women's squad, participating in the preliminary rounds of the 2009 Women's European Volleyball Championship.^[12] Since then she has many caps with the National team, of which she is the captain, since May 2017. In 2018 Mediterranean Games she won the silver medal as the captain of the Hellenic National Team.^[13] In 2019, she was the captain of the Hellenic National Team in the final phase of the European Championship, participating in all 6 games of Greece.^[14]

Personal

Stella is the daughter of Christos Christodoulou, and niece of Fanis Christodoulou. Her sister Elena is also a volleyball player.^[15] Christodoulou family has hails from Rozena Korinthia.^[16]