Yumi Kumakura

Yumi Kumakura (熊倉 由美 Kumakura Yumi) is a Japanese volleyball player. She plays a V-Premier League team Takefuji Bamboo. She was born on September 5, 1978 in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan. She entered Ito Yokado Prior on April 1997, after graduating from Kyoei High School.

When she was high school student

Kumakura played the World Youth Women's Volleyball Championship in 1995 as a Japanese representative (with Yoshie Takeshita, Hiromi Suzuki, Miyuki Mori, and Makiko Horai). Her team won the championship. Kumakura said to Mori, "I was spiked by Valentina Borrelli (an Italian left-handed player who spiked a ball very near on net in a pre-championship, Japan, Italy, Cuba,and Russia)". And "Although Franco (an Italian player), is left-handed, hits a ball center comparatively".

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