Milagros Cabral De La Cruz (born October 17, 1978, in Santo Domingo) is a retired female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic who won the 1998 silver and three consecutive gold medals in 2002, 2006 and 2010 at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
In addition, in 2008 with the Puerto Rican club Pinkin de Corozal, she was awarded Most Valuable Player and crowned with the championship.
[3] Milagros started playing for the Senior National team at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games,[4] where she won the silver medal.
[8] During The 2001-02 season Milagros played with fellow countrywoman Cosiri Rodríguez at the Spanish club Construcciones Damesa de Burgos.
[14] In both seasons with the club, she helped her team to reach the quarterfinals of the Indesit European Champions League,[15][16] and the second place of the Spanish Queen's Cup.
[19][22] Cabral was selected to swear the athletes' oath at the 2003 Pan American Games,[23][24] held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
[26] Returning home from Italy, where Cabral helped her team Modena to reach the semifinals,[27] she played at the 2004 Distrito Nacional Superior Tournament, resulting in runner up playing with Los Cachorros, who lost to Mirador[28] The 2004 Summer Olympics saw the first Dominican Republic participation in women's volleyball,[22][29] and Milagros[30] had the chance to finish with an attack (scoring spike shot).
[45] Nonetheless, she was chosen among the league All-Stars, playing at the foreigners with countrywoman Annerys Vargas from Vaqueras de Bayamón.
Grupo 2002 Murcia won this club tournament, and the invitee Dominican Republic National Team was the first runner-up.
[49] As gold medal recipient in those games, the Dominican Republic Ministry of Sports and Recreation Felipe Payano awarded Milagros and the rest of the Cartagena medalists with a Laptop to increase their professional development.
[52] After the victory in Colombia, and her participation at the world championship, Cabral joined the Spanish club from Liga Fev, and Ícaro Alaró from Majorca.
[76] She won the gold medal with her national team at the 2010 Pan-American Cup held in Rosarito and Tijuana, Mexico.
[82][83] Finishing rumors of retirement, Milagros stated that she retired from the Central American and Caribbean games, but will be playing in the National team until the 2012 Summer Olympics[84] Milagros won the Unique Cup gold medal, defeated the Peruvian team in the final game played at Coliseo Eduardo Dibos in Lima, Peru.
[89] For the third time, Cabral joined the Puerto Rican team Pinkin de Corozal[90] After the last match she played in the defeat against the United States in the quarterfinals of the 2012 Summer Olympics, she announced that she was formally retired.