Héléna Cazaute (born 17 December 1997 Narbonne), is a French international volleyball player. She plays as an outside hitter.
During the 2020-2021 season, she won the French Cup championship, with ASPTT Mulhouse, and was voted best player in the AF League.
Career
editWith the French under-18 team, she competed at the 2013 European Championship .
In 2018, she played her first major international competition at the 2019-20 European Championship. In 2021, she is the captain of the team that reached the quarter-finals. In 2022, she competed in the European League . In 2022, she participated in the first Tournoi de France where France came 2nd behind Japan . In 2023, she competed in Challenger Cup which qualified France in the Nations Cup. .In 2023, she competed at the European Championship. In 2024 she competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1]
Her professional career began with Béziers Volley during the 2014-2015 season . She played as a receiver -attacker , she quickly established herself as one of the best players in Ligue A , before suffering a setback in December 2016, a rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the knee , . However, she took advantage of her convalescence to gain a professional certificate of youth, popular education and sport (BPJEPS).[2]
In 2017, she signed a two-season contract with Racing Club de Cannes. During her first year, she gradually regained her pre-injury level, which allowed her to contribute to Racing's victory in the Coupe de France , in March 2018 , At the end of the AF League season , she lost in the play-off final against her former partners from Béziers . During the following season, she was crowned French champion for the first time, after her team's double victory in the play-off final against Volley-Ball Nantes .[3]
In 2019, she joined ASPTT Mulhouse. In May 2020, she extended her contract for an additional season. During the 2020-2021 season, she won the AF League for the second time. In April 2021, her team' won the Coupe de France against Istres Provence Volley. She was named best player of LAF [4]
In 2021, she joined the Italian team Chieri '76. At the start of the 2022-2023 season, she won the WEVZA Cup and she was voted best player of the tournament. In 2023, she won the Challenge Cup against the Romanian club CSM Lugoj.[5]
In 2023, she was recruited by Vero Volley Milan and played with Paola Egonu , Myriam Sylla , Alessia Orro , Raphaela Folie and Brenda Castillo In 2023, she returned to Palais des Sports in Mulhouse on the 2nd day of the group stage of the Champions League . In 2024, she competed in Italian Cup final against Conegliano. In 2024, her club played in the first Champions League final against Conegliano, in Antalya , Turkey.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ Paris, Recueilli par Kévin GUISNEL en zone mixte, à (2024-08-02). "JO 2024 - Volley. « J'aime le visage que l'on montre » : Héléna Cazaute satisfaite des Bleues". Ouest-France.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Interview d'Helena Cazaute". Asced Riaillé Volley Ball (in French). 2017-09-07. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Volley-ball : la Gruissanaise Héléna Cazaute gagne la coupe de France". lindependant.fr (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Ligue A (F) : Héléna Cazaute (Mulhouse), MVP de Ligue AF". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "FFvolley". www.ffvb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "Héléna Cazaute, après la finale de Ligue des champions perdue avec Milan : « On peut être fières, mais c'est évidemment une déception » (C1 (F))". L'Équipe (in French). Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ "FFvolley". www.ffvb.org. Retrieved 2024-08-07.