Prosecco DOC Imoco Volley, increasingly attractive to volleyball superstars from the five continents, announces that for next season it has hired the Japanese setter Nanami Seki, just turned 25, 171cm, national team player of the strong Japan team, who will be the “exotic” alternative in the control room to captain Wolosz for the next yellow-blue season. She will play with the number 6. She is the second Japanese player in the history of the Conegliano club, after the brief spell of opposite number Miyu Nagaoka in the ’18/19 season.
NANAMI SEKI – Funabashi (JPN), June 12, 1999 – 171 cm – Setter – #6
Nanami Seki began volleyball in school tournaments playing for Chiba Kenritsu Kashiwai. In the 2018-19 season the big leap in his professional career, signed by Toray Arrows, and he is already a protagonist in the top flight, reaching the final for the Japanese title, immediately obtaining great individual recognition such as the best rookie award in the championship and inclusion in the ideal sextet of the tournament. Furthermore, with the Arrows he won the prestigious Kurowashiki Tournament and during his six seasons in the Toray jersey he became an idol for the fans of the Rising Sun.
With the Japan national team he already stood out at youth level, won the gold medal at the Asian and Oceania championships with the Under 19 team in 2016, then made his debut in the senior national team in 2019, winning the silver medal at the Montreux Volley Masters, where she was awarded best setter. In the same year with the national team he won gold at the Asian and Oceanian championships. In 2023 he is a bronze medalist at the World Cup. He is currently in the group of the Japanese national team which is playing in the VNL finals (tomorrow the quarter-finals with China in Bangkok, Thailand) and has the Paris Olympics in its sights.