Danielle Racquel Scott-Arruda[1] (born October 1, 1972) is an American former volleyball player. She played at the 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Summer Olympics,[2] breaking a U.S. female volleyball athlete record for Olympic appearances.[3][4]
For her lifetime achievements in the sport, Scott-Arruda was inducted into the International Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2016.[4]
Scott-Arruda was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.[4] She attended Woodlawn High School in Baton Rouge, where she was an All-State athlete in volleyball and basketball.[5]
Scott-Arruda played volleyball for Long Beach State. In 1991, she helped Long Beach State to the NCAA Championship match.[6] In 1992, she was the Big West Conference Player of the Year and helped Long Beach State to the NCAA semifinals.[6] In 1993, Scott-Arruda led the 49ers to the NCAA National Championship.[4][6] She was American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) All-Northwest Region and the Big West Conference Player of the Year, as she led the nation in hitting percentage.[6] She was also the National Player of the Year.[5] In 1994, she won the Honda-Broderick Award (now the Honda Sports Award) as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball player.[4][7]
In Scott-Arruda's collegiate career, she posted 1,778 kills, 693 digs, and 604 blocks in volleyball.[5] She was a three-time AVCA All-American.[8] She also earned All-Big West honors in basketball, becoming the first Big West student-athlete to earn all-conference accolades in two sports in one season.[5]
In 1999, Scott-Arruda was inducted into the Long Beach State Hall of Fame.[9]
In her first major international competition, Scott-Arruda won a silver medal at the 1994 Goodwill Games in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[10] In her career, she played in over 420 matches and won numerous medals, including silver medals at the 2002 FIVB World Championship in Germany,[4] the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.[11]
Scott-Arruda carried the flag for the United States at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[4]
In 2019, Scott-Arruda visited Fiji as a Sports Envoy for the U.S. State Department's Sports Diplomacy Office.[5][12]
Scott-Arruda's parents are Charles Young and Vera Scott.[5] She has one brother, Charles, and one sister, Stefanie.[5] She was married to Eduardo Arruda, a former member of the Brazilian national team and they have a daughter Juliánné Arruda who is now 14 as of 2024.[5][13] She learned to speak Portuguese fluently while living in Brazil.[13]
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