After a short respite following the Paris Olympics, the city is soon jolting back to life for the Paralympics. One of the most intense and exciting sports on the schedule is sitting volleyball, which ...

The men’s and women’s sitting volleyball tournaments will be held from Thursday, August 29 to Saturday, September 7 during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Each tournament will showcase the eight best ...

FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas -- The scene inside the Jimmy Brought Gym on Fort Sam Houston Jan. 26 could have been from any of the various tournaments held there except for one detail - all the ...

Allison Lang has always loved playing sports. She took up swimming, football, skiing, and snowboarding as a child, but it was sitting volleyball that truly gave her a sense of belonging and a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the action-packed adaptive sport of sitting volleyball, Kaleo Kanahele Maclay may be the best sitting setter in the world. She scoots across the court on her hands and ...

PARIS (AP) — Sitting volleyball is a Paralympic sport played close to the ground: Players scoot around the court and hit over a net that stands just under 4 feet (1.15 meters). So having the world’s ...

FORT BLISS, Texas -- Gravity is the great equalizer for elements on earth. Just like gravity, the gym floor plays the same role in sitting volleyball. Everyone is nearly eye-to-eye, straining muscles ...

Paralympic volleyball follows the same rules as standing volleyball, with a few modifications for the “grounded” athletes. The game is played with a six-person team, but the net is lower, about 3.5 ...

At two meters, 46 centimeters (eight foot, one inch) tall, Morteza Mehrzadselakjani is the not-so-secret weapon of Iran’s sitting volleyball team. The tallest Paralympian in history and the ...

Sitting volleyball was invented in the Netherlands in 1956 as a rehabilitation sport for injured soldiers, but the game was introduced for men in the 1980 Paralympics – held in the Dutch city of ...