“You simply can’t do that in team sports because you have so many individuals and you have to build them together.”
As it stands, of British Volleyball’s three disciplines, only women’s beach volleyball will be financed through to 2016, with the indoor and sitting programmes to receive nothing.
Paralympic sports as a whole fared well in December’s funding announcement, receiving a 43% increase with just four sports suffering reductions.
However the cuts for sitting volleyball and wheelchair fencing meant neither will receive any UK Sport support in the build-up to Rio.
Volleyball England chief executive Lisa Wainwright said it could be a ‘flame out’ moment for the sport.
Her British Fencing counterpart Shuna Body also expressed dismay and pointed to the three bronze medals won in Paralympic disciplines at the recent World Cup event in Hungary as proof of the sport’s potential.
“We were extremely disappointed to find out that we will not receive any funding from UK Sport in the Rio 2016 cycle, especially as as the performance programme has progressed significantly in the last three years,” Body told BBC Sport.