The World ParaVolley Board of Directors unanimously approved the Brazilian Paralympic Training Centre as a recognised World ParaVolley Development Centre at their meeting on Monday. Photo: Barry Couzner with the President of NPC China Haidi Zhang at the opening the Hangzhou Development Centre The “World ParaVolley Sao Paulo Development Centre” joins...
BY JOHN KESSEL | Courtesy of www.teamusa.org The core words of this important title are attributed to Theodore Roosevelt, John Maxwell and others. For me, it has been a key concept that once again will guide me as I start coaching a 12U team at the U.S. Air Force Academy this...
Halleh Jafari and Fariba Ahadi hope to become flagbearers for their country after making history last week when they became the first Iranian women to referee an international Sitting Volleyball match. Jafari, 34, and Ahadi, 39 both refereed matches at the ParaVolley Europe New Nations Subzone Men’s Tournament 2018 in...
The latest World ParaVolley Referee and Classification courses have been completed on the sidelines of the ParaVolley Europe New Nations Subzone Men’s Tournament 2018, which starts in Tourcoing, France on Saturday. The World ParaVolley Sports Department, with the close cooperation of its Referee Commission, the Head of Education of the...
After the great success of a Sitting Volleyball introduction course at the Foro Italico in Rome earlier this month, another Volley Insieme (Volley Together) event took place on the sidelines of the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship outside the Nelson Mandela Forum in Florence on Friday. Participants of all...
World ParaVolley is offering a Level 1 Coaching Course in Lille, France, in collaboration with FF Volley. Dates: December 7-10, 2017 Location: Villeneuve d’Ascq (FRA) The deadline for registration is rapidly approaching – November 13th! Full course details can be downloaded here: Course Invitation and Information Sheet (PDF) Course Registration...
The IPC has just announced the 2018 Agitos Grants and World ParaVolley’s application to run a development project in Korea has been approved. Only 50% of the applications lodged were successful and only 8 International Federations, of which we are one, received a grant. Only 4 of the 31 successful...
Yesterday the Georgian Sitting Volleyball Team made history at the Invictus Games in Toronto Canada, by winning the gold medal. And their story is a good one. In 2014, seven Georgian servicemen formed the sitting volleyball squad for the Invictus Games in London. This was when Richard Osborne became involved...
From London Paralympian to South African Sitting Volleyball development maestro! 1 – How did you get involved in Sitting Volleyball? I first found out about sitting volleyball when I joined East London Lynx in Feb 2009. I had never played any form of volleyball before and I was hooked fairly...
Driving the sport forwards in his country! 1 – How did you get involved in Sitting Volleyball? I got to know about Sitting Volleyball whilst speaking with Ute Maria Fischer, an International Volleyball and Sitting Volleyball referee from Germany during a tournament in 2010. I immediately started researching about it...
