Sitting volleyball was the first adaptive sport in which Kendra Lancaster ever participated and she has stuck with it since she was first introduced to the game in 2004. That same year, at just 17 years of age, Lancaster won the bronze medal with the U.S. Paralympic Team in Athens. Four years later, Lancaster used her experience on the international stage to lead the U.S. Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team to a silver medal at the 2008 Paralympic Games. As a starter for Team USA at the 2010 Sitting Volleyball World Championships, Lancaster helped bring home the silver medal, unfortunately once again falling to China in the gold medal game.
Lancaster was born without a left arm but played standing volleyball, basketball and showed horses while growing up. She graduated from Westfield Washington High School in Westfield, Ind., in 2006, where she played volleyball all four years. She is now studying pre-veterinary medicine and animal science at Purdue University, where she is on track to graduate in 2010.
Major Achievements:
- 2010: Silver medal, U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team – Sitting Volleyball World Championships, Edmond, Oklahoma
- 2008: Silver medal, U.S. Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team – Paralympic Games, Beijing, China
- 2008: Bronze medal, World Organization Volleyball for Disabled Intercontinental Cup – Ismailia, Egypt
- 2007: Silver medal, Sitting Volleyball Invitational – Shanghai, China
- 2006: Fifth place, Sitting Volleyball World Championships – Roermond, The Netherlands
- 2004: Bronze medal, Paralympic Games – Athens, Greece
