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Dorcas Nakhomicha Ndasaba
Dorcas Nakhumicha Ndasaba (born 31 March 1971) is a former Kenyan volleyball player. She was part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team. Life She participated in the 1998 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, and in the 2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship. She competed with the national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics, both times finishing 11th. In 2007 under there then Kenyan national coach Sammy Kirongo led them to a seventh victory at the Women's African Volleyball Championship in Nairobi and the final was against Algeria. The Kenyan team included Brackcides Agala, Janet Wanja Janet Wanja (born 24 February 1984 in Nairobi) 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 Ken ..., Dorcas Ndasaba and Catherine Wanjiru. Ndasaba was judged best player after she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenya Women's National Volleyball 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. Kenya also has a beach volleyball team, who were the only women's team at the Tokyo Olympics. Kenya's women's sitting volleyball team did not qualify for Tokyo. History Women were not invited to play volleyball at the All-Africa Games until 1978. Those games were in Algiers, Algeria and Kenya did not send a team. The team was there in 1991 for the Volleyball at the 1991 All-Africa Games where they were first. They were also in Cairo when eight teams were present for the 1991 Women's African Volleyball Championship and Kenya again took the gold medal. Violet Barasa, as national team captain, lead the nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |