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TEPIC, Nayarit, Mexico, July 14, 2022 - Raquel
Chumpitaz, former member of the Peruvian
volleyball women’s team, is now living as the
mother of the captain of the United States
national team Mathew West, who is competing in
the Men’s NORCECA Final Six Pan Am Cup in
Nayarit, Mexico.
Raquel was member of the Peruvian women’s
volleyball team that competed in the 1980
Olympic Games and a member of the team that won
the silver medal at the 1982 FIVB World
Championship.
She owns a recognized volleyball club in
Seattle, Washington where she lives, and during
the next days she’s in Tepic sitting in the
stands supporting her son Mathew.
“I was member of the Peruvian volleyball team
under the direction of Korean coach Mambo Paz
and now I am a coach back in Seattle with my
club, training children between the ages of 8
and 18” she explained.
When asked how it feels to be from the outside
as a mother, she indicated “I feel proud, he had
already made team USA during the Pan American
Games in Toronto and has played professionally
for the past seven years”.
Raquell explained that besides the great feeling
of watching Mathew defending the US flag, she
also feels stress “when you know the game and
the opportunity of making the national team, I
feel anxious of being on the court”.
She added that she’s delighted to see how Mathew
and the rest of the guys in the American team
have evolved “watching them gain experience, get
nervous about the opportunity they have and for
some of them it’s the first time representing
their country is surreal because I was once in
their shoes and having the same experience”.
Raquel added that the feeling is incredible, and
she wishes to enjoy many more successes as a
volleyball mom. |
