Chance for budding players as Prisons forms youth netball team

11-time National Netball League champions Kenya Prisons has become the first club in Kenya to form a ladies youth under 21 side that will serve as a feeder to the senior team, head coach Everline Cherono has announced.

Speaking to Mozzart Sport during their Ruiru training base in Kiambu County, Cherono said that she is recruiting countrywide and already has a strong team of ten ladies recruited fresh from secondary schools.

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"This has always been the way to go, but unfortunately in Kenya we still lag behind with infrastructures and beaurocracies. We have to bank and put faith in our youth who if properly developed, then our national team will conquer Africa and also challenge some of the best teams in the world," said Cherono.

Prisons who won their eleventh national league title last season are now banking on the youth to blend well with the seniors like national team captain Parin Simiyu and Pauline Ramadhan who have now taken to coaching as they are slowly transitioning from the playing court to the touch line.

Cherono will being assisted by former national team veteran Dolhine Oyugi who also doubles up as Nyakach Girls High School netball coach in Kisumu County and together they have managed seven girls who have been named in a 30 woman provisional squad for the upcoming Africa region, qualifiers to be held in Pretoria , March 14-24th this year.

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The Prisons youth team players who will join the national team camp are shooters Nahum Ogot , Doreen Akinyi and Yvonne Nyairo.

Bridgit Amusugot and Kimberly Achieng will also join the national team camp and try to make it to the final squad in defence as midfield attackers Angeline Adhiambo and Miriam Wamani have also been named in the national team provisional squad.

Cherono and Oyugi have also gone for defenders Enid Akinyi and Mollyn Auma from Nyakach Girls high school while Vivian Adeke has been romped in from Bumala Secondary School in Busia County as they continue beefing up their youth side.

Kenya Prisons netball team is now the first Netball club in Kenya that has formed a youth team to serve as a feeder to the senior team, a proper conveyer belt of players who are transitioning to retirement as others are just beginning their careers.