Volleyball team

Puerto Rico Women

Club · Puerto Rico · Pan-American Cup Women

«Las Guerreras del Caribe»

70 Matches

31 wins

39 losses

117–143 Sets

−26 Difference

1.7 Average per match

Form W W W W L L

Nobody in the Caribbean gives Puerto Rico's women more trouble than the Dominican Republic and Cuba, and nobody in the region gives them less room to breathe than the United States, whose depth has kept the Warriors of the Caribbean chasing rather than catching for most of their history. That nickname, Las Guerreras del Caribe, replaced an older one, Las Nenas del Caribe, once the federation decided the team's results called for a harder word than "girls."

The results back the change up more than the trophy count suggests. Puerto Rico has never won a Pan American Cup or a NORCECA Championship outright, finishing runner-up in both again and again — silver at the Pan American Cup in 2016 and 2023, silver at the NORCECA Championship in 2009 and 2021 — the kind of record that points at the Dominicans and Cubans standing in the way rather than at any shortage of nerve. A bronze medal became the team's calling card in one competition in particular: third place at the FIVB Volleyball Women's Challenger Cup in 2018, 2022 and 2024, three different squads landing in the same spot.

Vilmarie Mojica ran the offense from the setter position for well over a decade, from 2002 to 2016, and picked up Best Setter honours at both the 2007 NORCECA Championship and the 2009 Pan American Cup. Yarimar Rosa, an outside hitter across the same stretch of years, wore the captain's armband at the team's first Olympic appearance, the 2016 Rio Games, where Puerto Rico finished eleventh.

Games at the Coliseo Guillermo Angulo in Carolina, just outside San Juan, rarely settle anything on their own — the real measure of the team comes when it lines up again against the Dominican Republic or Cuba, the two sides that have made second and third place feel like a habit rather than a ceiling.

Latest results

Fixtures and results

19 Sep	Pan-American Cup Women	Mexico Women A	1:3	L
18 Sep	Pan-American Cup Women	USA Women H	1:3	L
16 Sep	Pan-American Cup Women	Dominican Republic Women A	3:1	W
14 Sep	Pan-American Cup Women	Nicaragua Women H	3:0	W
12 Sep	Pan-American Cup Women	Canada Women A	3:1	W
11 Sep	Pan-American Cup Women	Venezuela Women H	3:0	W