{"id":105651,"date":"2025-07-19T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc"},"modified":"2025-07-19T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T16:59:58","slug":"volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball: Ndagijimana extends stay at Police WVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>2024\/25 women\u2019s volleyball season best setter, Iris Ndagijimana, has signed a two-year contract extension with Police Women\u2019s Volleyball Club ahead of the new season that is set to commence in October.<\/p>\n<p>The former Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) player joined the law enforcers in the 2022\/23 season, the same year the club debuted in the national league.<\/p>\n<p>Ndagijimana\u2019s contract renewal follows the club\u2019s recent signing of Kenyan setter Brian Melly Kipkirui on the men\u2019s team, which is coached by Fred Musoni. Speaking after extending her stay, Ndagijimana expressed her gratitude and underlined her ambitions with the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis extension means a lot to me. There is still a lot to achieve. This season, I won trophies, and I\u2019m looking forward to winning even more next season with Police,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Police secured three trophies in the 2024\/25 season under the guidance of coach Christian Hatumimana. She played a pivotal role in helping Police clinch their first-ever national women\u2019s volleyball league title after defeating APR in the finals series 2-1. Her standout performances earned her the Best Setter of the Season award.<\/p>\n<p>On June 22, she was also named Best Setter at the 2025 Genocide Memorial Tournament, where Police overcame her former club, RRA, in a tightly contested four-set thriller.<\/p>\n<p>That triumph was followed by victory in the Liberation Cup, where Ndagijimana steered the team through a dramatic five-set final (22-25, 25-22, 25-20, 22-25, 15-10) against APR WVC<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 2024\/25 women\u2019s volleyball season best setter, Iris Ndagijimana, has signed a two-year contract extension with Police Women\u2019s Volleyball Club ahead of the new season that is set to commence in October. The former Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) player joined the law enforcers in the 2022\/23 season, the same year the club debuted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":105650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[7212,758],"class_list":["post-105651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-police-wvc","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Volleyball: Ndagijimana extends stay at Police WVC - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"2024\/25 women\u2019s volleyball season best setter, Iris Ndagijimana, has signed a two-year contract extension with Police Wo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Volleyball: Ndagijimana extends stay at Police WVC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"2024\/25 women\u2019s volleyball season best setter, Iris Ndagijimana, has signed a two-year contract extension with Police Wo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-19T16:04:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-19T16:59:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/07\/sm_1752931602.541716.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Volleyball: Ndagijimana extends stay at Police WVC\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-19T16:04:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-19T16:59:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc\"},\"wordCount\":257,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/07\/sm_1752931602.541716.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Police WVC\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/volleyball-ndagijimana-extends-stay-at-police-wvc\",\"name\":\"Volleyball: Ndagijimana extends stay at Police WVC - 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