Risa Shinnabe

I'll be honest, the second I see a 173cm athlete out of Kirishima in Kagoshima who plays both indoor and beach volleyball, my brain just fills in "quietly tough, all core and grit" before I even know the details, and I stand by that read. Indoor volleyball already asks for ridiculous reflexes and timing, but beach? Playing on sand where every step swallows your foot and your legs are screaming by the second set is a whole different kind of stubborn. I don't pretend to know every match or stat, so I won't fake it, but you can usually feel it on people like her, that no-nonsense, did-the-reps posture that holds up long after the playing days. A Kagoshima kid who chose the harder surface twice over. I respect that a lot.

Risa Shinnabe is a Japanese volleyball and beach volleyball player born on July 11, 1990, in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture. Standing 173 cm tall, she competes both in indoor volleyball and on the beach circuit. She is from the Heisei generation of Japanese athletes and maintains an active presence on social media via X (formerly Twitter).

Name (English)

Risa Shinnabe

Name (Japanese)

新鍋理沙

Reading

しんなべ りさ

Born

July 11, 1990 (age 36)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Horse (午)

Origin

Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Height

173cm

Occupation

Volleyball Player / Beach Volleyball Player

Motto

Private

• Xhttps://x.com/snnbrs
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%B0%E9%8D%8B%E7%90%86%E6%B2%99

Tags

• From Kagoshima Prefecture
• Volleyball Player
• Beach Volleyball Player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.