What is Angelena Dolezar?
Angelena Dolezar (born 12 June 1985) is a Canadian sitting volleyball player (VS1 sitting volleyball classification). She is a member of the Canada women's national sitting volleyball team.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angelena Dolezar|url=https://volleyball.ca/en/athletes/angelena-dolezar|access-date=2022-03-05|website=Volleyball Canada|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Dolezar {{!}} Canadian Paralympic Committee|url=https://paralympic.ca/team-canada/angelena-dolezar|access-date=2022-03-05|website=paralympic.ca}}</ref> == Life == In August 2013, Dolezar fractured her tibia, dislocated her left knee and severed the popliteal artery behind her knee after being thrown off an inflatable tube on Shuswap Lake behind a boat that turned a corner. The following month her leg had to be amputated above the knee. She had to stay for six months in hospital to recover. She made her debut for the national team at the 2015 Pan American Games. The next year she made her Paralympic debut at the [[2016 Summer Paralympics]] in Rio de Janeiro finishing seventh.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angelena Dolezar - Sitting Volleyball {{!}} Paralympic Athlete Profile|url=https://www.paralympic.org/angelena-dolezar|access-date=2022-03-05|website=International Paralympic Committee|language=en}}</ref> At the 2018 World Championships in the Netherlands she also finished seventh.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Canadian Sitting Teams Ready For World Championship Qualification|url=https://volleymob.com/canadian-sitting-teams-ready-world-championship-qualification/|access-date=2022-03-05|website=volleymob.com}}</ref> She competed at the 2019 Parapan American Games winning a bronze medal.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sitting volleyball {{!}} Athlete Profile: DOLEZAR Angelena - ParaPan American Games Lima 2019|url=https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/parapan/en/results/sitting-volleyball/athlete-profile-n1158555-dolezar-angelena.htm|access-date=2022-03-05|website=wrsd.lima2019.pe|archive-date=2022-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305173702/https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/para