Yvonne Wavinya Explained

Yvonne Wavinya
Nationality:Kenyan
Birth Date:22 February 1996
Height:1.750NaN0
Weight:630NaN0
Spike:2800NaN0
Block:2300NaN0
Position:Wing Spiker
Currentclub:Kenya Pipeline
Nationalteam: Kenya
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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 Olympics 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[1] where she helped them win despite having an injured finger.[2]

Wavinga was in the team that gained Kenya qualification for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics with Brackcides Agala, Phosca Kasisi and Gaudencia Makokha They qualified when they won at the African Continental Cup Finals in Morocco in 2021. She and Kasisi beat the Nigerian pair of Tochukwu Nnoruga and Albertina Francis 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.[3] The team, chosen by the coach Sammy Mulinge,[4] was drawn into pool D with Brazil, the United States and Latvia at the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. However, Wavinya was not selected as part of Kenya's two-person beach volleyball pair.[5]

Clubs

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Player - Yvonne Wavinya Kiitha - FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship 2017. 2021-07-20. u23.women.2017.volleyball.fivb.com.
  2. Web site: PLC. Standard Group. yvonne wavinya. 2021-07-20. The Standard. en.
  3. Web site: volleyballworld.com. Argentina, China, Cuba and Kenya take Olympic berths. 2021-07-20. volleyballworld.com. en.
  4. Web site: Mulinge names beach volleyball squads for Olympic qualifiers. 2021-07-20. Citizentv.co.ke. en-US.
  5. Web site: Kenyan volleyball team departs for Tokyo Olympics - Xinhua English.news.cn. 2021-07-13. www.xinhuanet.com.