Héctor Soto (born June 28, 1978 in Arroyo, Puerto Rico) is a former volleyball player from Puerto Rico, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in sixth place at the 2007 FIVB Men's World Cup in Japan and received the Best Scorer individual award.

[2] Soto started playing professionally with the Puerto Rican club Bucaneros de Arroyo in the 1995 season,[3] he then played with Caribes de San Sebastián since 1998 when Arroyo and San Sebastian merged,[1] winning the 1999 Puerto Rican League Championship with this team and becoming Final Series Most Valuable Player.

[15] He was selected as flag bearer for Puerto Rico in the 2007 edition in Rio de Janeiro,[16] when he was the tournament's Best Scorer[17] and helped his team reach the fifth place.

Serving as the team captain Soto was named the tournament's Best Scorer at the 2007 NORCECA Championship, finishing with 104 points on 94 spikes, five blocks and five aces.

Soto signed with the Turkish league champion club based in Izmir, Arkas Spor for the 2009/10 season with the hunger of winning a championship.

[22][23] After winning the bronze medal in the 2009 NORCECA Championship,[24] Soto was meant to report himself to Arkas and was notified to the Puerto Rican Federation to do it[25] and received legal support by the local lawyer Fernando Olivero in the dispute with the club.

[26] He later commented that he had to stay in Puerto Rico in order to help both his father and one of his brother that were ill at that time and that he felt exhausted after the continental championship.

His club lost 0-3 to Brazilian Sada Cruzeiro[48] and also 0-3 to the Russian Zenit Kazan[49] to end its participation in tied fifth place.

[51] Soto played the 2014–2016 NORCECA Beach Volleyball Continental Cup trying to secure a ticket to the 2016 Summer Olympics in what he defined a last minute decision to close up his career,[52] but his team fell short losing to Cuba in the semifinal round.