Personal information | |
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Nationality | Canadian |
Born | Melfort, Saskatchewan, Canada | 23 December 1999
Sport | |
Country | Canada |
Sport | sitting volleyball |
Disability | Limb deficiency |
Disability class | VS1 |
Club | Melfort Storm Volleyball Club |
Julie Kozun (born 23 December 1999) is a Canadian sitting volleyball player (VS1 sitting volleyball classification). She is a member of the Canada women's national sitting volleyball team and her club Melfort Storm Volleyball Club. [1]
When she was six years old she broke her right femur in a tobogganing accident. She played able-bodied volleyball while at school with Melfort Storm in Saskatchewan. In 2015 when she was 15 years old, she had a lawnmower accident, that resulted in a left leg amputation below the knee. The cousin of her friend, Canadian wheelchair basketball player Erica Gavel , told her about sitting volleyball and introduced her to the Canadian team the same year. Kozun started playing, but took a break in the in 2016 to focus on her high school studies. She started playing again with the national team in early 2017. She played at the 2018 World Championship in the Netherlands finishing 7th. With the national team she placed 4th at the 2020 Summer Paralympics. [2]
Kozun is ambassador for Canadian non-profit organisation "The War Amps", supporting people with limb deficiencies. She was awarded the Certificate of Appreciation by the mayor of Melfort in 2018. [2]
Kozun studies Agricultural Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. [2]
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