USA Volleyball has committed itself to the relatively new discipline of Beach ParaVolley (Standing) that could ultimately see additional Team USA athletes competing at the Paralympic Games. The USA Volleyball Board of Directors recently voted to confirm its designation as the official national federation for Beach ParaVolley. Story: By USA...
WELCOME !!! …to the 2017 ParaVolley Pan America Sitting Volleyball Championships! After months of preparation and days of travel, teams faced off from October 26-29 2017 in Montreal Canada to decide who will be the Zone Champion and who will qualify for the 2018 World ParaVolley Sitting Volleyball World Championships!...
World ParaVolley would like to offer our most sincere condolences to the family and friends of Jose Luis Campo, the President of the Americas Paralympic Committee, who passed away yesterday. Jose was the prime mover in the development of the Paralympic movement in Pan America and had important roles in...
World ParaVolley, in collaboration with ParaVolley Pan America and the Costa Rican Volleyball Federation (FECOVOL) will be hosting a set of courses from February 23rd-26th, 2017. Level 1 Referee, Coach, and Classifier courses will be on offer in San Jose, Costa Rica. They will be offered in English and Spanish....
Thanks to Toronto, the Organizing Committee, the great volunteers, Technical Officials and all the participants for a great week at the 2015 Parapan Am Sitting Volleyball competition. The Parapan Am Games provided a great week of volleyball for the athletes, coaches and spectators. Kudos to the Toronto organizing committee, the...
Semi-finals in both men’s and women’s events took place today at the Parapan Am Sitting Volleyball event. Some exciting volleyball action throughout the day as teams vied for the right to compete for medals and in some cases qualifying for a spot in the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. The first...
Today was the final day for men’s preliminary matches and all 6 men’s teams were in action on the final day before semifinals begin tomorrow. In the first match of the day, Canada handed Colombia a 3 set defeat by scores of 25-19, 25-23, and 25-19. The Colombians played well...
Summary – Day 4 Preliminary Rounds Today saw all 10 teams in the TO2015 Parapan Am Sitting Volleyball competition in action once again. In the first match of the day, the men from Brazil easily handled the much less experienced team from Colombia, taking the match in 3 sets by...
Summary – Day 3 Preliminary Rounds Today saw all 10 teams in the TO2015 Parapan Am Sitting Volleyball competition in action. In the first match of the day, Brazil took on Costa Rica and had little trouble disposing of them in a match that lasted only 50 minutes. The size...
Day two of the Sitting Volleyball event at the TO2015 Paralympic Games is in the books. All 10 teams were in action today; for the women it was their first day of competition. In the first match of the day, the Colombian men handed the Costa Rican men a defeat...
