Phosca Nekesa Kasisi (born 1993) is a Kenyan female

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player who plays for ''Kenya Commercial Bank''. She is in the

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 recor ...

as captain of the

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team at the postponed

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in Tokyo. Kenya has never had a beach volleyball team at the Olympics.

Life

Kasisi was born in 1993 in

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. Kasisi became captain of the beach volleyball team. The team gained Kenya qualification for the postponed

with Kasisi,

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Yvonne Wavinya Yvonne Wavinga (born 1996) is a Kenyan volleyball player who plays for ''Kenya Prisons''. She has played for Kenya's U23's and helped qualify Kenya women's national volleyball team for the beach volleyball tournament at the postponed 2020 Summer O ...

and

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. They qualified when they won at the

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in Morocco in 2021. She and Wavinga beat the Nigerian pair of

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and

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2-0 while Agala and Makokha beat Francisca Ikhiede and Amara Uchechukwu 2–1. 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. The four players who qualified will make up Kenya's Olympic beach volleyball team chosen by the coach Sammy Mulinge.

Clubs

Kenya Commercial Bank KCB Bank Kenya Limited is a financial services provider headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya. It is licensed as a commercial bank, by the Central Bank of Kenya, the national banking regulator. The bank has also been running Agency banking model ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kasisi, P 1996 births Living people Kenyan women's volleyball players People from Makueni County