Career
Villanueva started practicing boxing and volleyball. Ana took the money she collected after the Pan American Games winning, to repay the mortgage loan over her family house. They used the mortgage to fund the liver cancer treatment for one of Villanueva"s brothers.
The next year, she took the golden medal in under 50 kg and bronze in the open category medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Championships Ana took two bronze medals at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games, one in the under 50 kg, and the other at the team kumite competition.
Foreign this winning she collected a Rural Delivery$500,000 (approx United States$13,017 in November ) award by the President of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Leonel Fernández.