Edith Wisah Mukuvilani aka Edith Wisa (born 20 July 1994) is a

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volleyball player in the

Kenya women's national volleyball team The Kenya women's national volleyball team, the ''Malkia Strikers'', represents Kenya in international volleyball competitions. Kenya has dominated the African continent since the 1990s, winning the Women's African Volleyball Championship a recor ...

who has played for Kenya at two Olympics.

Life

Mukuvilani comes from the town of

Kakamega Kakamega is a town in western Kenya lying about 30 km north of the Equator. It is the headquarters of Kakamega County that has a population of 1,867,579 (2019 census). The town has an urban population of 107,227 (2019 census). Kakamega ...

and she was born in 1994 and she went to school in Lugulu. She began to play volleyball professionally for the Kenya Prisons team in the 2013/2014 season. In 2018 she was invited with the rest of the National team to a celebration meal in Nairobi before the team flew on the first of three flights that would take them to Japan. She was part of the "Malkia Strikers" team with

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as head coach that competed in Tokyo at the 2018 Women's world championships. In 2019 Kenya women won the

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and Mukuvilani was on the team. In that year she transferred from the Kenya Prisons team to the KCB team. She did well and within two years she became the KCB team's captain. In 2021 she and Lorine Chebet were chosen as the middle blockers by Head coach

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in a twelve woman team to compete at the postponed 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. It was the first time that Kenya had qualified since 2003. Bitok chose a similar team to the one that competed at the 2019 FIVB Volleyball World Cup as it had eight players in common. These were Makuvilani, Jane Wacu,

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and Sharon Chepchumba, Mercy Moin,

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Lorine Chebet Lorine Chebet Kaei (born 8 October 1999) is a Kenyan volleyball player who has represented her country internationally including at the Tokyo and Paris Olympics. She has played for Kenya Prisons and Kenya Commercial Bank Women's Volleyball Teams ...

and

Agripina Kundu Agripina Khayesi Kundu (born 24 April 1993) is a Kenyan volleyball player, playing as a libero. She is part of the Kenya women's national volleyball team. She participated at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball World Grand Prix. On club level she played f ...

. The team were trained additionally by Luizomar de Moura of Brazil. The Kenyans lost their first match against the home team of Japan. In 2024 she was in the KCB Bank volleyball team. Japheth Munala became the national team's head coach as Bitok had joined the team's management. Munala again chose Mukuvilani for that year's Africa Volleyball Federation qualifiers. Kenya qualified again for the Olympics in 2024 and Makuvilani again made the team to go to Paris.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mukuvilani, Edith 1994 births Living people Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics People from Busia County Kenyan women's volleyball players 21st-century Kenyan sportswomen Sportspeople from Kakamega