Dorcas Nakhumicha Ndasaba (born 31 March 1971) is a former Kenyan

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

player. She was part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team.

Life

She participated in the

1998 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship The 1998 FIVB Women's World Championship was the thirteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 3 to 12 November 1998 in Tokyo, Tokuyama, Matsumoto, Kagoshima, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Osaka ...

, and in the

2002 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship The 2002 FIVB Women's World Championship was the fourteenth edition of the tournament, organised by the world's governing body, the FIVB. It was held from 30 August to 15 September 2002 in Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Münster, Schwerin, Riesa, Le ...

. She competed with the national team at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ...

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

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in Nairobi and the final was against Algeria. The Kenyan team included

Brackcides Agala Brackcides Agala Khadambi (born 14 May 1984) is a Kenyan female volleyball player. She was captain of the Kenya women's national volleyball team and she competed in beach volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Life She was born in 1984. She ha ...

, Janet Wanja, Dorcas Ndasaba and Catherine Wanjiru. Ndasaba was judged best player after she gained the final point to deliver victory in straight sets.

References

External links

*http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyball/competitions/olympics/2004/women/Teams/Team_Roster.asp?code=KEN&sm=64 *https://web.archive.org/web/20161024121558/http://www.todor66.com/volleyball/Olympics/Women_2000.html 1971 births Living people Kenyan women's volleyball players Place of birth missing (living people) Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for Kenya African Games bronze medalists for Kenya African Games medalists in beach volleyball Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games {{Kenya-volleyball-bio-stub