Tsubasa Hisahara

Tsubasa Hisahara
Tsubasa Hisahara
Personal information
Nationality	Japanese
Born	18 March 1995 (age 26); Hyogo, Japan
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Spike	339 cm (133 in)
Block	320 cm (130 in)
College(s)	Tokai University
Volleyball information
Position	Outside hitter
Current club	Panasonic Panthers
Number	7 (club)
Career
2013–2017	Tokai University
2017–present	Panasonic Panthers
National team
2012–2013	Japan U-19 national team
2013	Japan U-21 national team
2015	Japan U-23 national team
2017	Japan universiade national team
2016–2020	Japan senior national team
Medal record
Men's volleyball
Representing Japan
Asian Cup
Asian Youth Championship
Eastern Asian Championship
Summer Universiade

Tsubasa Hisahara (久原翼 or ひさはらつばさ, Hisahara Tsubasa, born 18 March 1995) is a male Japanese Volleyball player who currently play for Panasonic Panthers in V.League Division 1. He used to be the captain of Japanese youth national team and was a part of Japan men's national volleyball team.

Personal life[]

Hisahara has two older brothers, the one is , and his father was an elementary school Volleyball coach. So, he started playing Volleyball influenced by his family.^[3]

Career[]

He was attended to the Jokoji Volleyball Sports Boy Scouts, where his father was a coach.^[4]

When he entered [ja],^[3] his physical growth expanded his range of play, and he was selected as a representative under-category and gradually gained confidence.^[4] He frequently participated in the All Japan High School Volleyball Championship (Spring High) and the National High School Comprehensive Athletic Meet (Inter-High). He was captain for the third year.^{[citation needed]}

After that, he entered Tokai University, he participated in the game from the first year and led the team with fellow and Wataru Inoue. In the third year, the team won the Emperor's Cup and Empress' Cup All Japan Volleyball Championship title after beated JTEKT Stings, who was in Japanese highest league , with a set count of 3–1.^[5] In 2016, when he was in his fourth year, he was first elected to Japan senior national team and was also the captain of the college's volleyball club. At the end of the same year, he became an informal player of the Panasonic Panthers.^[6]

In the , he was registered as an informal player. On January 7, 2017, his V.League first appearance was in the game against Toyota Synthetic Trefelsa (currently is Wolf Dogs Nagoya).^[7] In the following 2017–18 season, he often participated in games while being a rookie.

In 2017, he was elected to represent Japan at the 29th Universiade Tournament and contributed to the team's bronze medal.^[2]

In the 2018–19 season, Tatsuya Fukuzawa, who has the same position with Hisahara, was withdrawn in the middle of the season, and from there he got many opportunities to play in the league.^[8] He became a starting member in the final game of the season, the team won the championship and achieved the second consecutive league title. He also participated in the 2019 Asian Men's Club Volleyball Championship as a main player.^[9]

In the 2019–20 season, he made a leap forward in the Japan national team and also participated in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup.^[10] For V.League in the same season, Fukuzawa moved to Paris Volley in France, so it made him became a regular player from the beginning of the league. Then, he converted to a professional player from June 1, 2020.^{[citation needed]}

In the latter half of March 2021, he had an ill at the end of and missed the game after March 21. He also missed the semi–finals and final matches^[11]^[12] and was also excluded from the 2021 Japan national team roster.