Phyllis Anyango
{{short description|Kenyan volleyball player (born 1971)}}
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Phyllis Anyango (born {{birth date|1971|02|18|df=yes}}) 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{{cite web|title=Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 1994 - Teams Composition. - Kenya|url=http://todor66.com/volleyball/World/Women_1994.html|work=todor66.com|access-date=29 November 2015|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627000816/http://todor66.com/volleyball/World/Women_1994.html|archivedate=27 June 2015|df=dmy-all}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Anyango honored for distinguished service |url=https://tssaa.org/article/anyango-honored-for-distinguished-service |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=TSSAA}}
In 2019 she was honoured for the service she had given in Tennessee's secondary schools.
Clubs
- Kenya Railways (1994)
References
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Category:Kenyan women's volleyball players
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
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