Nada Meawad

Nada Meawad (Arabic: ندى معوض‎; born April 12, 1998) is an Egyptian indoor volleyball player. She has been playing volleyball since she was 5 years old in El Shams Sporting Club, following her siblings that were playing volleyball in the same Sporting Club. She participated for the first time in the Egypt women's national volleyball team when she was 15 years old playing for the 2013 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Thailand.

Nada Meawad
Personal information
Nationality Egypt
Born (1998-04-12) April 12, 1998
Cairo, Egypt
Height180 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Weight71 kg (157 lb)
College(s)Park University
Beach volleyball information
Years Teammate
2016 Doaa Elghobashy
Best results
Location
 USA Missouri, Parkville
National team
 Egypt

Career

In 2014, Meawad played in Botswana for Volleyball African Championship with the Egypt women's national volleyball team. The National Team of Egypt won the First Place.

In 2015, she played in Algeria for African Championship with the National Team of Egypt. Egypt won the first place. She took part in Women's African Clubs Championship (volleyball) in Egypt with El Shams Team. El Shams ended in the 4th place.

In the African Championship U18 in 2015, Nada Meawad got individual award of MVP and Best Spiker Girls’ U18. She also played in the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Pool A in Peru with the Egypt women's national volleyball team. Egypt got the 12th place.

In 2016, she competed in Women's African Clubs Championship (volleyball) CAVB in Tunisia with El Shams Team. El Shams get the 5th place. Later on, she played in the African Nations Championship in Congo with the National Team of Egypt. Egypt got the 3rd place.

With her partner Doaa Elghobashy, she qualified in beach volleyball for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by winning the CAVB Continental Cup held in Nigeria. The pair played in Pool-D at the 2016 Summer Olympics and finished last.[1]

In 2017, Meawad played for the National Team of Egypt in the African Nations Championship in Egypt girls U18. Egypt get the first place and get qualified for the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship in Peru. Afterwards, she competed with El Shams Club in Women's African Clubs Championship (volleyball). El Shams won the 2nd place after qualified for the finals bidding Al Ahly team in a historic win. She got the award of Most Valuable Volleyball Player in the African Clubs Championship in 2017. In the same year, she earned scholarship to play for collegiate volleyball, alongside her twin sister Noura that also plays volleyball, for Park University. She was also named American Midwest Conference All American First Team, AMC Player of the Year and Freshman of the Year, also AVCA |NAIA First-Team All-American and the AVCA/NAIA Freshman of the Year.

She helped Park to a record of 33-4 and an appearance in the NAIA Volleyball Championship national quarterfinals.

Results Pool-D
  • Ludwig / Walkenhorst (Germany) (0: 2)
  • Menegatti / Giombini (Italy) (0: 2)
  • Broder / Valjas (Canada) (0: 2)

References
  1. "Profile - Nada Meawad". Rio2016.fivb.com. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
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