SITTING VOLLEYBALL NEWS

Athlete hits a volleyball.

The sitting volleyball star wants to help Canada reach Rio 2016.

Two boccia player sit in the wheelchairs with their medals around their neck.

Saturday will see 12 of the 15 Parapan sports get underway, with 32 medals up for grabs in four sports.

Collage of five athletes photos

The public has until Tuesday 11 August to vote for their favourite from the five candidates.

Katie Holloway

Brazil’s men and the USA’s women will start as favourites for gold in the sitting volleyball competition.

Man in the water, waving one arm in the air, celebrating

The IPC Swimming World Championships were not the only major event that wrapped up last month.

Athletes line up during a ceremony.

Rwanda will be the first African women’s sitting volleyball team to participate in a Paralympic Games after winning the regional crown.

Girls and man doing high five, sitting on a volleyball field of play

The Portuguese Volleyball Federation hosts sitting volleyball events for young people with disabilities, showing that volleyball is a sport for everyone.

Sitting volleyball

The competition is the sport’s last qualifying event for Rio 2016.

USA Sitting Volleyball Men's Team

The team for August’s Parapan American Games features 11 players with World Championships experience.

Rwanda vs Iran during their Pool B preliminary round of the Sitting Volleyball tournament at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Africa Championships head to Rwanda in July, while the World Club Cup comes to Mashhad, I.R. Iran in September.

The Canadian women's sitting volleyball team.

Men, women’s teams to contend for berth to Rio 2016 Parlympics.

Team Slovenia Sitting Volleyball Women

Event serves as qualifier for Rio 2016

European Para Youth Games 2015 logo

The event between 16-19 July 2015 will feature competition in athletics, boccia, swimming, table tennis and sitting volleyball

Sitting volleyball

Camp will be held at the end of April with the aim of recruiting men’s and women’s teams to compete at the Toronto 2015 Parapan American Games.

Bosnia's men's sitting volleyball team

Made up of players injured in war, the two-time Paralympic champions have become national heroes in their homeland

Katie Holloway

The star US sitting volleyball player hopes a successful Parapan American Games will give the team the confidence they need to beat China at Rio 2016.

A picture of women playing Sitting Volleyball

New site can be found at www.worldparavolley.org

Brent Rasmussen

Brent Rasmussen has been elected to the USA Volleyball Board of Directors as the first-ever sitting volleyball representative to

Dartanyon Crockett

In 2014, 271 Paralympic places were decided for the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games in 10 sports.

Safet Alibasic strikes the ball as Bosnia & Herzegovina beat Egypt at London 2012.

Now Paralympic and world champion is hoping to retain the European title this year.