World ParaVolley is deeply saddened by the recent loss of Jouke de Haan, a leading paravolley coach and coach educator in 12 different countries across the world over nearly four decades. Jouke de Haan coached the national sitting volleyball teams of the Netherlands, Germany and Egypt with great success and...
World ParaVolley has the following positions available: World ParaVolley Sport Director Unfortunately, Laurent Torrecillas has resigned from the position of Sport Director for personal and business reasons that have been magnified by COVID. The Board will appoint a replacement after receiving applications and the position will be up for election...
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has released its latest edition of ‘Spotlight’, which keeps stakeholders up to date on the activities being carried out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) team and its partners. This edition looks at the Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) program. This program provides a harmonized global...
World ParaVolley is now accepting Team Leader Applications for Commissions and Committees for the 2022-2025 period Applications for the volunteer positions of Team Leader (formerly Chairs) of the World ParaVolley Commissions and Committees for the period 2022-2025 are now invited. The applications are due 30 November 2021. The current Chairs...
The World ParaVolley Board has supported the recommendations of the two Rules of the Game Committees to update the sitting volleyball and beach paravolley rules for the period 2022-24. As the two strategic disciplines of World ParaVolley, it was important that these Rules were updated as deemed necessary by the...
World ParaVolley is continuing to seek nominations for the 2022 version of the World ParaVolley Awards. The work of the World ParaVolley Awards Committee since 2019 resulted in 120 sitting volleyball recognition awards being approved and distributed by the Board of Directors on International World ParaVolley Day 2020 and over...
Reigning world and European champions RPC came in fifth place in their Paralympic Games women’s sitting volleyball debut at Tokyo 2020, but they are now shifting their focus to the next edition of the quadrennial in Paris three years from now. “We’re going to start right now, working on being...
It is with great enthusiasm that World ParaVolley endorses Ms. Michelle Schiffler, sitting volleyball athlete, as a candidate for the upcoming IPC Athletes’ Council elections. Michelle has had a lengthy career in sitting volleyball, representing Team USA at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Paralympic Games where she won silver...
From IPC: The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has launched the Doping Control Guide for Testing Athletes in Para Sport to assist anti-doping organisations and those working out in the field, collecting samples from Para athletes for anti-doping purposes ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The IPC Guide includes tips...
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and the Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 (Tokyo 2020) began publishing the third and final editions of the Tokyo 2020 Playbooks on 15 June (Tuesday). These comprehensive guidelines, which are a key part of the...
