Monique Matthews wants to make sitting volleyball a household name. Matthews, 32, began playing the sport in 2010 and had no prior volleyball experience. It took her over a year to pick up the skills ...

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 ...

When people hear that Nicky Nieves plays sitting volleyball, they assume it means playing volleyball on a scooter or in a wheelchair. "No, we're actually on the floor," Nicky told WH. "We're sitting ...

When people hear that Nicky Nieves plays sitting volleyball, they assume it means playing volleyball on a scooter or in a wheelchair. "No, we're actually on the floor," Nicky told WH. "We're sitting ...

The British Paralympic Association announced on Wednesday the men’s and women‘s sitting volleyball teams for London 2012, a ...

Sitting on the floor, Morteza Mehrzadselakjani’s raised arms stretch well over six feet. Standing up, the Iranian Paralympian measures eight feet one inch, making him the tallest athlete in the ...

U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - The Team Army sitting volleyball team road the proverbial rollercoaster on its way to beating Team SOCOM 2 - 0 in a best of three set match for the bronze medal. The ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball team held an exhibition game against Canada at the Colorado Convention Center on March 5, 2017 in Denver. The U.S.

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 ...

The Team USA women's sitting volleyball team lost to China during preliminary pool play at the Tokyo Paralympics, but the gold-medal match on Sept. 4 proved victorious for USA when they won after four ...

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 ...