Bethania de la Cruz de Peña (born May 13, 1987) is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with the Dominican women's national team at the 2009 NORCECA Championship and the 2010 Pan-American Cup. Career 2006 De la Cruz won the Most Valuable Player award when she helped her Dominican professional club Mirador to win the Championship. Playing with her Junior National Team at the 2006 U-20 NORCECA Women's Junior Continental Championship, she won the Most Valuable Player and Best Scorer awards. Her team won the silver medal. She became the MVP of the 2006 TV Azteca's Women Stars Volleyball Cup, played in Monterrey, Mexico won by the team with a perfect record in 5 matches. Previously, she won the bronze medal in beach volleyball at the 2006 National Championship, playing with Karla Echenique. After that season she became "Dominican Republic Volleyball Player of the Year". 2007 At the 2007 Pan-American Cup she took the bronze medal with her National Team and also the Best Scorer award. She took the same award later at the 2007 NORCECA Championship. She played with the Puero Rican professional team Vaqueras de Bayamón for the 2007 season, being awarded as MVP of the All-Star Game, and the "Best Spiker" of the season. 2008 For the 2007/2008 season of the Japanese V.Premier League she played with the Toray Arrows, finishing as league champion and "Best 6". At the end of the season she won for the second time the "2008 Dominican Republic Volleyball Player of the Year". With her National Team, she won the Silver Medal and the "Best Attacker" and "Best Scorer" at the 2008 Final Four Cup. Same year was awarded "Best Attacker" at the 2008 edition of the Salonpas Cup. The next season, 2008/2009, she played for the South Korean team GS Caltex. 2009 The Dominican Republic Guild of Sport Writers make her recipient of the 2008 Volleyball Athlete of the Year. In June 2009, at the 2010 World Championship NORCECA Qualification Pool H, at Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, she won the Best Spiker award. A month later, she carry her National Team to the silver medal at the 2009 Pan-American Cup, and she was elected Most Valuable Player of the event. After winning with her team the 2009 NORCECA Championship, she took a sabbatical year due to maternity. 2010 Returning from the sabbatical year,