Phyllis Anyango | |||||
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Nationality | Kenyan | ||||
Born | (1971-02-18) 18 February 1971 (age 53) | ||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||
Volleyball information | |||||
Number | 16 (national team) | ||||
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Phyllis Anyango (born (1971-02-18)18 February 1971) is a retired Kenyan female volleyball player. She was part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team.
Life
She was born in Kenya and she did not take to volleyball until she about nineteen. She had played basketball but she disliked the amount of running.
She participated in the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship and she went with Kenya to the Olympics in Sydney. On a club level she played with Kenya Railways.
After a decade of playing in Kenya and when she was 29 she moved to America to take up a volleyball scholarship and to study computer science and maths.
In 2019 she was honoured for the service she had given in Tennessee's secondary schools.
Clubs
- Kenya Railways (1994)
References
- ^ "Anyango honored for distinguished service". TSSAA. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
- "Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 1994 - Teams Composition. - Kenya". todor66.com. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
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