Kenya coach supports FIVB new beach volleyball rules The Star Kenya s Ibrahim Odouri spikes against Sudan s player during the 2019 Africa Beach Games in Cape Verde. Image: /COURTESY
• The continental qualifiers are set for June in Zambia.
The ratification of the new rules by the Federation Internationale de Volleyball will streamline beach volleyball and make it more competitive, national men s team coach Patrick Owino believes.
The FIVB has roped in new regulations that are expected to come into force on January 1, 2022. In the new set up, the technical bench is not permitted to request for time out while the set is ongoing.
Last updated 1 month ago | By Ernest Ndunda
Naomi Too training in Mombasa in 2019. [File, Standard]
National women beach volleyball team coach Sammy Mulinge is hoping to have the services of experienced Naomi Too for the Olympics qualifiers.
Too, who plays for Kenya Pipeline picked a knee injury on November 22, 2019 during the national league play-offs at Kasarani and has been out of action since then.
The injury saw the 2019 All Africa Games beach volleyball silver medalist Too who partnered with Gaudencia Makokha sidelined for the Africa Olympic qualifiers round one held in Dar-Es-Salaam, January 2020.
The injury forced her to be hospitalised but she has since been discharged and started physiotherapy and light gymnasium work.