The World ParaVolley Board is pleased to announce that three volunteers were recently awarded their Certificates after “attending” the Women Lead Sports Program sponsored by World ParaVolley and APSO. Louise Ashcroft, Cristiana Figueira and Lori Okimura completed the course that was conducted virtually over January to March 2022. Louise said:...
World ParaVolley is very pleased to announce the appointment of Dora Szatmari as the new Team Leader for the Classification Commission. Dora is well known to World ParaVolley having been involved in paravolley classification since 2006 as a classifier, educator, researcher, mentor, and leader. As a senior classifier, she has...
World ParaVolley has put together the “World ParaVolley Presents…” webinar series to offer presentations that are of interest to our membership and others. We reached out to all our stakeholders to collect suggestions on possible webinar topics and potential speakers and are pleased to have presented the first “World ParaVolley...
World ParaVolley is an independent international federation that provides safe and positive paravolley sporting activities and events for people across the world who have physical impairments, including at the Paralympic Games, and the safety of our community is of utmost concern. World ParaVolley condemns the acts of violence associated with...
Amin, the son of Alireza Moamari, succeeded his father as Thailand sitting volleyball teams’ head coach after being appointed as head coach of the Italian men’s team. Amin, who previously served as the assistant coach of Thailand from 2019 to 2020, has been promoted to the head coaching position. He...
Isabelle Collot adds to the list of World ParaVolley’s trailblazing women after being named assistant sport director for sitting volleyball. She now becomes the first female to be appointed to the position in World ParaVolley history. Collot is a veteran in the sport, having played both volleyball and sitting volleyball...
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...
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced its PLY post-nominal initiative to recognise the Paralympians’ contribution to the Movement through their hard work, commitment to and promotion of the Paralympic values. Post-nominal letters, such as PhD or MD, are placed after a person’s name to indicate that they hold a...
Iranian coach Alireza Moameri has been appointed by the Italian Volleyball Federation (FIPAV) as the new head coach of the men’s sitting volleyball national team on Thursday, February 11. The Tehran-born 67-year-old tactician has an extensive list of successes with the Iran men’s national team in the Paralympic discipline, including...
The World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball Rules of the Game Committee would like to provide a clarification of Rule 4.1.1 Official Sitting Volleyball Rules 2022 – 2024 Chapter 2 – Participants, 4 – Teams, 4.1 –Team composition, 4.1.1. 4.1.1 For the match, a team may consist of up to 14 players...
