Julie Kozun Julie Kozun

Julie Kozun helped Canada qualify for the 2024 Paralympic Games as it earned one of the available spots at a last chance tournament in 2023. Kozun made her Paralympic Games debut at Tokyo 2020.

In February 2020 she helped Team Canada secure a spot for the 2020 Paralympics by winning gold at the World ParaVolley final qualification tournament in Halifax.

Kozun was a member of the team from 2015 to spring of 2016. After a year away, she returned in 2017 and has remained a member since.

In 2018, the mayor of Melfort, SK. presented Kozun with a Certificate of Appreciation, recognizing her for her involvement within her community with The War Amps program as a safety ambassador. Kozun also received a Gold Star for the creation of a “Play Safe” video she presented at an elementary school in Melfort on behalf of The War Amps.

Kozun lost her left leg below the knee in a lawn mower accident at her friend’s farm. While she was in the hospital her friend’s cousin, Erica Gavel; Canadian women’s wheelchair basketball team member, paid her a visit. She came to tell Kozun about the sport of sitting volleyball. In 2015, post-recovery, Kozun became a member of the team. At the same time, one she had her prosthetic sports leg created, Kozun also continued to play standing volleyball for her high school team.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

2020 Paralympic Games… 2018, 2022 World Championships… 2019 Parapan American Games…

PERSONAL

Diploma in agribusiness at the University of Saskatchewan…  Has two sisters… Lost her left leg below the knee in a lawnmower accident…

NOTABLE INTERNATIONAL RESULTS

• 2022 World Championships 2nd
• 2020 Paralympic Games 4th
• 2019 Parapan Am Games 3rd
• 2018 World Championship 7th