has been named by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) as the technical delegate for sitting volleyball

The Jersey Volleyball Association and Jersey Open Tournament founder will be responsible for organising

and presentation, accreditation, and security and contingency plans.Le Breuilly refereed able-bodied volleyball

the top division of the English National League for twenty-five years and was introduced to sitting volleyball

By Gary AndersonNovember 13 - The United States Sports Academy (USSA) has announced Olympic and world champion gymnast Kohei Uchimura of Japan and world number two golfer Norway's Suzann Pettersen have been chosen as the male and female athletes of the month for October.

claimed silver in the vault competition and took bronze on the balance beam.Biles compatriot, beach volleyball

By Duncan Mackay at the Sandton Convention Centre in JohannesburgNovember 11 - Kenya today named a 12-person taskforce to investigate allegations that its top runners have been involved in widespread doping, a topic set to be near the top of the agenda when the World Conference on Doping in Sport opens here tomorrow.

with representatives from several sports, including athletics, boxing, football, hockey, rugby and volleyball

When she was 17, Elwin, already an accomplished beach volleyball player, left her homeland for Vanuatu's

Henriette Iatika, three years her senior, with whom she recently finished ninth in the International Volleyball

Outside just playing their volleyball it has been really challenging."

Beach volleyball is a new sport in Vanuatu.

Most people play outdoor volleyball in the villages and communities.

volleyball is popular, but there is a lot of interest to learn how to play beach volleyball since it

So can Vanuatu's beach volleyball talents make it to Rio?

By Mike RowbottomNovember 10 - Vanuatu's beach volleyball team, whose lifestyles and London 2012 ambitions

and a huge feeling of loss.Vanuatu's athletes at the London 2012 Opening Ceremony - the women's beach volleyball

@insidethegames.bizRelated storiesNovember 2013: Funding crisis may halt Vanuatu women's beach volleyball

By Gary AndersonNovember 8 - Paralympic symbol Agitos has returned to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to mark 100 days since the north of the Park was re-opened to the public and to act as a permanent reminder to visitors of London 2012, considered the biggest and most successful Games in history.

Copper Box Arena which saw Team GB take on international sides in boccia, wheelchair basketball, sitting volleyball

By Gary AndersonNovember 7 - Triple Paralympic and six-time world champion Tatyana McFadden picked up the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) female Athlete of the Month award for October after her third marathon victory of the year in Chicago.

the honours list by alpine skier Ted Ligety, who picked up the male Athlete of the Month prize.Bach volleyball

Jennings was also a history maker in October after becoming the most successful player in women's beach volleyball

by winning the International Federation of Volleyball (FIVB) Grand Slam in Xiamen, China, the 113th

By Duncan MackayNovember 3 - Sepaktakraw, which means kick volleyball, a sport popular in South

The sport, which can trace its roots back to the 15th century, is played similarly to volleyball

By Mike RowbottomNovember 3 - John Steele, the newly appointed chair of the English Institute of Sport (EIS), has warned against overoptimistic hopes that Britain will exceed London 2012 gold medal total and overall placing at the next Games in Rio three years from now, although he believes winning more medals overall is not impossible.

Britain's athletes face an uphill task to better their London 2012 medal total at the 2016 Rio Games, the volleyball

By Emily GoddardOctober 30 - Uganda has pulled out of hosting the 2013 African women's Sitting Volleyball

Championships in Poland in June next year and, ultimately, Rio 2016.However, the World Organisation for Volleyball

I was given assurance that the first Para Volleyball Women Championships will receive the support from

By Duncan Mackay at the Fairmont Flame Towers Hotel in BakuOctober 28 - Baku has been praised for the progress it has made in preparing for the inaugural European Games here in 2015 with Patrick Hickey, President of the European Olympic Committees (EOC), predicting that some of the facilities will be superior to Rio 2016.

sports and most of the venues have now been finalised, including boxing, fencing, karate, taekwondo and volleyball

By Duncan Mackay at the Arena Sport Complex in St PetersburgOctober 21 - A new World Beach Games is set to be launched in 2015 by SportAccord, its President Marius Vizer has revealed here, with Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and the United States all in the running to host the inaugural event.

feature on the programme, which will be a mixture of sports traditionally played on sand - like beach volleyball

hand to illustrate their fine credentials over five sports: badminton, fencing, wheelchair basketball, volleyball

Indeed, the clear excitement of all of the youngsters, particularly those volleyball players who, albeit

"I'm rubbish at volleyball, not so good at footy, alright at badminton...and a bit of a killer at wheelchair

summarised.Unconventional footwear maybe but the Duchess of Cambridge was another keen participant as she tried out volleyball

By Nick Butler at the Copper Box in LondonOctober 18 - In a visit here this morning as part of her role as the Patron of SportsAid, the Duchess of Cambridge provided inspiration to dozens of talented sporting youngsters as well as proving her own versatility when trying a new sport.

new sport.Although renowned at hockey, tennis and skiing, the Duchess had apparently never attempted volleyball

Park at first as athletes quietly and effectively went about their training for the five sports of volleyball

Cambridge speaks to wheelchair basketball players and coachesThis view was underlined by two of her new volleyball

She was really good especially as it was her first time playing volleyball."

She did her usual walk around and then just joined in the volleyball and got stuck into a proper game

By Paul OsborneOctober 16 - Britain's Richard Whitehead has been voted the International Paralympic Committee's (IPC) Athlete of the Month for September after running 40 marathons in 40 days.

Bill Chaffey, Brazilian football five-a-side player Jefferson da Conceicao Goncalves, Russian sitting volleyball