Waterloo athlete represents Canada on national sitting volleyball team

Nasif Chowdhury balances athletic career with study in Recreation and Sport Business program. By Jon Parsons University Relations - A second-year undergraduate student in the Recreation and Sport Business program is a rising star in the sport of international sitting volleyball. Nasif Chowdhury represents Canada and helped bring the men's national team near the pinnacle of the sport in recent competition. "I was at the Paralympic qualifiers for Tokyo in 2019, and unfortunately we just missed the qualification," Chowdhury says. "In November 2022, we were in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Sitting Volleyball World Championships." At the recent World Championships, Chowdhury and the Canadian team ended up finishing eleventh, after a hard-fought win over Poland. A disability-specific sport. As a paralympic sport, international sitting volleyball is for disabled people and has restrictions around which disability categories are eligible to play.