Rome, Italy, Feb 8, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Italian media has been fixated with the story of Michela Amadori, a renowned volleyball player who has decided to leave the sport and enter the cloister.
Sister Michela, as she is now called by her community of Discalced Carmelites in Rome, was thought to have a promising career in volleyball.
She says she is “totally happy” with her decision to enter the convent and thus leave behind her youth volleyball team, which made it to the junior World Volleyball Championships in 1997.
In 1998, when she moved to Rome to join a professional volleyball club, she decided to study theology, a subject that had always fascinated her.