Brayelin Elizabeth Martínez (born September 11, 1996, in Santo Domingo) is a Dominican volleyball player who won the bronze medal in the 2015 Pan American Games as a member of the Dominican Republic national team. She played in the 2014 Senior World Championship and the 2011 and 2015 FIVB World Cup.
With their under-age national teams, she won the gold medal in the 2015 U20 World Championship, silver medal in the 2013 FIVB U23 World Championship and bronze in the 2015 FIVB U23 World Championship. With the senior team she won the gold medal in the 2014 and 2016 Pan-American Cup and silver in 2013 and 2015; silver in the 2013 NORCECA Continental Championship and gold in the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games, 2016 U23 Pan-American Cup and the 2017 Bolivarian Games, where she was the flag bearer.
In 2013, she competed in five worldwide championships: the U20 World Championship, U18 World Championship, World Grand Prix, U23 World Championship and the World Grand Champions Cup. She plays as an outside hitter for the Dominican club Mirador, playing with this club the 2011 and 2015 Club World Championship.
She received the Dominican Republic Guild of Sport Writers award as the 2013 volleyball player of the year. She won the 2014 Santo Domingo Province Superior Tournament with the Dominican club Playeras de Boca Chica.
Martínez is 201 cm (6 ft 7 in) tall 83 kilograms (183 lb), born on September 11, 1996, in Villa Juana, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional. Her parents are Agripina Martínez, who also served as Dominican Republic youth and junior squads team manager, and Juan Doñe (deceased 2008). Her siblings are Jineiry who also plays for the Dominican Republic national volleyball teams and Bryan, who signed as pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates but later opted to play professional basketball with Titanes del Distrito Nacional. She is a cousin of the basketball player Jack Michael Martínez and niece of the former national team basketball player and politician Vice-Minister of Sports Soterio Ramírez. Martinez felt attracted to volleyball when she was seven years old, during the 2003 Pan American Games. She is a Bachelor of Business Administration student in Universidad APEC.
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