Mercy Moim
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| File:AG 23 Indoor Volleyball 25.jpg Mercy Moim at the 2023 African Games | |||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | Kenyan | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1989 Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Spike | 307 cm (121 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Block | 298 cm (117 in) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Kenya Commercial Bank | ||||||||||||||||
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Mercy Moim (born 1 January 1989) is a Kenyan volleyball player. She played with the Kenya national team in the 2010 FIVB Women's Volleyball World Championship.[1] She was team captain for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (the only women's volleyball team from Africa).
Life
[edit | edit source]Moim made her debut in the national team at age 15, and she has played for the Supreme Volleyball Club in Thailand.
Moim was chosen to captain Kenya's team in 2016. In 2021, Kenya qualified for the Olympic Games for the first time in sixteen years.[2] She was again the captain for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo by the coach Paul Bitok. Veteran Jane Wacu also made the cut[3] former colleagues Violet Makuto and Elizabeth Wanyama were not included in the dozen players chosen to travel where they lost their first match against the home team from Japan.[4]
Moim and rugby player Andrew Amonde were chosen as Kenya's flagbearers at the Olympics opening ceremony in Tokyo. Moim was the second woman to be given this honour, following archer Shazad Anwar in 2016.[5]
Clubs
[edit | edit source]- Kenya Kenya Commercial Bank (2005–2006)
- Kenya Kenya Prisons (2007–2014)
- Finland Liiga Ploki (2014–2015)
- Finland Oriveden Ponnistus (2015–2016)
- Azerbaijan Azerrail Baku (2016–2017)
- Thailand Supreme Chonburi (2019–2020)
- Kenya Kenya Commercial Bank (2020–)
Awards
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]- 2018–19 Thailand League - File:Gorm silver cup.jpg Runner-Up, with Supreme Chonburi
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