| Phosca Kasisi | |||
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| Nationality | Kenya | ||
| Born | 14 February 1993 Nairobi | ||
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| Current club | Kenya Commercial Bank | ||
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Phosca Nekesa Kasisi (born 1993) is a Kenyan female volleyball player who plays for Kenya Commercial Bank. She is in the Kenya women's national volleyball team as captain of the beach volleyball team at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Kenya has never had a beach volleyball team at the Olympics.
Kasisi was born in 1993 in Nairobi. [1]
Kasisi became captain of the beach volleyball team. [2] The team gained Kenya qualification for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics with Kasisi, Brackcides Agala, Yvonne Wavinya and Gaudencia Makokha. They qualified when they won at the African Continental Cup Finals in Morocco in 2021. [3] She and Wavinga beat the Nigerian pair of Tochukwu Nnoruga and Albertina Francis 2-0 while Agala and Makokha beat Francisca Ikhiede and Amara Uchechukwu 2–1. [3]
Kenya's beach volleyballers were in the four Continental Cup winners with Argentina, Cuba and China (who had already gained Olympic qualification). Kenya has never had a beach volleyball team at the Olympics. [3] The four players who qualified will make up Kenya's Olympic beach volleyball team chosen by the coach Sammy Mulinge. [4]
Volleyball has been part of the Summer Olympics program for both men and women consistently since 1964.
Janet Wanja is a volleyball player from Kenya, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #7 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Kenya women's national team.
The Kenya women's national volleyball team, the Malkia Strikers, represents Kenya in international volleyball competitions. Kenya has dominated the African continent since the 1990s winning the Women's African Volleyball Championship a record nine times. They have qualified three times for the Olympics in 2000, 2004 and for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
Mercy Moim is a Kenyan volleyball player. She played with the Kenya national team in the 2010 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship.
Brackcides Agala Khadambi is a Kenyan female volleyball player. She was captain of the Kenya women's national volleyball team and she is to play beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
The following were the events of Volleyball for the year 2016 throughout the world.
The Nigeria women's national volleyball team represents Nigeria in international women's volleyball competitions and friendly matches.
The FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior women's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. Initially the tournament was played in the year following the Olympic Games, but since 1991 the World Cup has been awarded in the year preceding the Olympic Games. The current champion is China, which won its fifth title at the 2019 tournament.
The qualification for the 2016 Women's Olympic beach volleyball tournament was held from 26 June 2015 to 26 June 2016. A maximum of two teams per country were allowed to qualify. 24 teams from 17 countries qualified.
The FIVB Volleyball Men's Nations League is an international volleyball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB), the sport's global governing body. The first tournament took place between May and July 2018, with the final taking place in Lille, France. Russia won the inaugural edition, defeating France in the final.
The qualification for the 2020 men's Olympic beach volleyball tournament allocated quota places to 24 teams. A maximum of two teams per country are allowed to qualify. The 2020 Olympics was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Argentina is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1900, Argentine athletes have competed in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis, the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of their support for the United States-led boycott.
Twelve teams qualify for women's rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan automatically qualifies as host, with the top four teams of the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series securing their spots. Afterwards, qualification is determined with each of the six continental confederations determining a representative, and the remaining qualification spot determined through an international sevens tournament to be determined.
The 2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League is the third edition of the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, an annual women's international volleyball tournament. 2021 version of VNL originally was scheduled to start earlier than the previous edition due to the 2020 Summer Olympics in July. The preliminary phase was scheduled to be held in five weeks between May 19 and June 21, 2020.
Kenya is expected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games have been postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be the nation's fifteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Joy Lusenaka is a Kenyan female volleyball player. She is part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team as a setter. She is participating in the 2020 Summer Olympic Games under captain Mercy Moim.
Candelaria Herrera is an Argentine volleyball player who participated with the Argentina national team.
Gaudencia Makokha is a Kenyan female volleyball player. She is part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team playing beach volleyball at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics.
Yvonne Wavinga is a Kenyan female volleyball player who plays for Kenya Prisons. She has played for Kenya's U23's and is now part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team playing beach volleyball at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Kenya has never had a beach volleyball team at the Olympics.
Francisca Ikhiede is a Nigerian volleyball player who plays in the Nigeria Customs team and the Nigeria women's national volleyball team.
