- 2025 PVF Most Inspirational Player
- 2025 PVF All-Star
- 1x PVF Player of the Week (May 5, 2025)
- All-time franchise leader in digs (758) and digs per set (3.75)
Professional Experience
San Diego Mojo (2024-25)
2025
- PVF Most Inspirational Player Award recipient and voted to the inaugural PVF All-Star Match
- Appeared in and started 27 matches with 107 sets played
- Led the Mojo with franchise-record 413 digs and 3.86 digs per set, both the second-highest marks in the PVF, and ranked third among Mojo players with 93 assists and 0.87 assists per set.
- Earned PVF Player of the Week honors for April 28-May 4 after guiding the Mojo to back-to-back home victories over the Columbus Fury and playoff-bound Indy Ignite, collecting 37 digs and eight assists to average 5.29 digs and 1.14 assists per set over the seven frames.
- She registered a career-high 26 digs in the May 3 victory against the Ignite, three shy of the San Diego record and the most ever for a Mojo player in a four-set match.
- She has had at least 11 digs in 24 of 27 matches played, including 18 of the final 19 matches.
- Venegas had a 16-dig performance against Vegas on Feb. 7 that are the most-ever for a Mojo player in a three-set match.
- She collected 23 digs against Omaha at Viejas Arena on Feb. 20, equaling her best total with the Mojo, then added a 22-dig performance against Orlando on March 19.
- The 23 digs tied her mark for the second-most in San Diego history, a feat she accomplished twice in 2024. The previous two times also occurred at home against Omaha.
2024
- Appeared in and started all 24 regular season matches for the Mojo in the inaugural 2024 Pro Volleyball Federation season.
- Collected 345 digs and dishing out 96 assists.
- She ranked fourth in the league in both digs and digs per set (3.63).
- Was one of four Mojo players to appear in all 24 regular season matches and one of three to start each match, ranking second on the squad with 95 sets played.
- She tallied double digits in digs in 23 of 24 matches and had at least 15 digs in 12 matches.
- Had two matches with 23 digs, the second-most in team history, and two matches with 19 digs, tied for the sixth-best effort for a Mojo player.
- In San Diego’s PVF Championship semifinal match against eventual champion Omaha, Venegas registered 10 digs and four assists.
Criollas de Caguas (2021-23)
- Led club to a second-place finish in 2021-22 and fifth place in 2022-23.
SC Prometey (2020-21)
- Guided club to the Ukaranian Superliga Championship as well as victories in the Ukranian Cup and Ukranian Supercup.
Genter/Bauru (2017-18)
- Led team to a fourth-place finish in the Paulista Championship and eighth in the Brazilian Superliga
Criollas de Caguas (2012-17)
- 4x Puerto Rican League Champion: 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17
- 2013-14: Puerto Rican League MVP
- 2012-13: Puerto Rican League Best Digger
Pinkin de Corozal (2011-12)
Llaneras de Toa Baja (2008-11)
- Puerto Rican League Champion: 2008-09
- League runner-up: 2009-10
- 2x Puerto Rican League Best Receiver (2008-09, 2010-11)
College Experience
- Universidad Metropolitana (UMET)
- Four-time champion
National Team Experience
- 15-year member of the Puerto Rico National Team (2009-24)
- Olympic Games Rio, 2016
- First team in the history of Puerto Rico Volleyball to play in the Olympic games
- 4x Volleyball World Championships participant
- 3x Central Americans and Caribbean Games participant (Bronze and Silver Medal)
- 2x Pan Americans Games participant
- Pan American Games 2023 Best Receiver
- 6x NORCECA participant (Silver and Bronze Medalist)
- 2x NORCECA Pan American Cup Final Six Best Libero (2022, 2024)
- 2x NORCECA Pan American Cup Final Six Best Digger (2022, 2024)
- 2024 NORCECA Final Four MVP
- NORCECA Championships 2021 Best Libero
- 2x NORCECA Championships Best Receiver (2019, 2021)
- NORCECA Challenger Cup Qualification 2018 MVP, Best Digger and Best Libero
- 5x Pan American Cup participant (Silver and Bronze Medalist)
High School / Club Experience
- Academia Discipulos De Cristo (Three-time champion)
- Arsel Eagles Club - Championship of Puerto Rico Clubes
Personal Information
- Earned a bachelor's degree in marketing
- Counselor, Sports and Recreation for the Puerto Rican government in the city of Toa Baja
- Mother: Maria Medina
- Father: Rafael Venegas
- Sisters: Karla Venegas, Liza Venegas
- Aunt to five children
- Mother of a beautiful husky named Marina
- Loves the beach, good vibes and living happily
- A fan of hard work and sacrifice to achieve goals
Player Details
Name: Shara Venegas
Position: Libero
Height: 5-7
Number: 2
Date of Birth: September 18, 1992
Hometown: Toa Baja, Puerto Rico
Country: Puerto Rico