Yvonne Wavinga (born 1996) is a Kenyan

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player who plays for ''Kenya Prisons''. She has played for Kenya's U23's and helped qualify

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 ...

for the

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tournament at the postponed

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in Tokyo, having never participated previously.

Life

Wavinya was born in 1996 in Makueni. She was in Kenya's national under 23 team in 2017 where she helped them win despite having an injured finger. Wavinga was in the team that gained Kenya qualification for the postponed

with

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and

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They qualified when they won at the

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

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and

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2-0 while Agala and Makokha beat Francisca ‘Franco’ 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 team, chosen by the coach Sammy Mulinge, was drawn into pool D with Brazil, the United States and Latvia at the postponed

in Tokyo. However, Wavinya was not selected as part of Kenya's two-person beach volleyball pair.

Clubs

* Kenya Prisons

References

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