{"id":18569,"date":"2021-07-21T10:57:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T01:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2021-07-21T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:02:34","slug":"%e3%83%90%e3%83%ac%e3%83%bc%e3%83%9c%e3%83%bc%e3%83%ab%e9%83%a8%e3%83%bb%e5%a4%a7%e5%a1%9a%e9%81%94%e5%ae%a3%e3%80%80%e6%97%a9%e5%a4%a7%e5%8f%b2%e4%b8%8a%e5%88%9d%e3%81%ae%e4%ba%94%e8%bc%aa%e4%bb%a3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/news-en\/2021\/07\/21\/18569\/","title":{"rendered":"Marking a First in Waseda History, Volleyball Team\u2019s Tatsunori Otsuka Selected to Represent Japan in Men\u2019s Volleyball at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u201cUnleashing everything I have\u201d<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_17865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17865 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1212-1-2-610x407.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1212-1-2-610x407.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1212-1-2.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otsuka is expected to have a strong offensive showing (photo provided by Waseda Sports Newspaper Association)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On June 21, the Japan Volleyball Association announced the athletes selected to compete on Ryujin NIPPON, Japan men\u2019s national volleyball team,. Tatsunori Otsuka, a member of Waseda University\u2019s volleyball team, originally from Rakunan, Kyoto, and a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> year student at the School of Sport Sciences, was selected to be part of the 12-person team. He is the first Waseda student, alumni included, to compete at the Olympics in men\u2019s volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the announcement, Otsuka was competing as a member of Ryujin NIPPON at the FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2021, which was held in Italy from May 28 to June 27. Otsuka enthusiastically commented on the announcement through the Japan Volleyball Association: \u201cAs a member of the 12-person team, I will think about how I can contribute and what my role will be. I will give it my all to ensure we win.\u201d Otsuka also commented on his play style and how he hopes to perform at the Olympics: \u201cI think the way I drive with spikes and use blocks for spikes makes me an offensive player. Rather than try to go above and beyond, I want to contribute to my team by unleashing everything I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17987\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17987 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021050204676-1-610x451.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021050204676-1-610x451.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021050204676-1-768x568.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021050204676-1-940x696.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Otsuka executes a spike at the Olympics volleyball test competition in May 2021 (KYODO, JVA2021-06-042)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In December 2020, the Waseda University volleyball team won its fourth consecutive All Japan Intercollegiate Volleyball Championship, and Otsuka played a central role in this victory.\u00a0 First selected for Ryujin NIPPON in 2020, Otsuka commented that \u201cmy experience has allowed me to grow significantly.\u201d That Otsuka has achieved his dream of competing at the Olympics is a testament to this growth.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kulBS-b2RkU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cUnleashing everything I have\u201d On June 21, the Japan Volleyball Association announced the athletes selected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17865,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[207,171,225],"class_list":["post-18569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-olympicparalympic-en","tag-volleyball-en","tag-tokyo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18574,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18569\/revisions\/18574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/athletic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}