Club rugby players contest possession on a Kenyan pitch. Kenya has named its squads for the East Africa Secondary Schools Games. Photo: Erik (HASH) Hersman/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
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Kenya names strong rugby squads for East Africa Secondary Schools Games.
Kenya has named its squads for the East Africa Secondary Schools Games rugby competition, according to the source credited below.
Background
The East Africa Secondary Schools Games are the main regional competition for school sport, and for most players they are the highest level of representative rugby they will reach. School rugby has historically been the main pipeline into the Kenyan national sevens and fifteens sides, which is both a strength and a weakness: the pathway is real, but it runs almost entirely through a small number of schools with the facilities, coaching and travel budgets to compete.
Why it matters here
That is the part that matters in Kibra. A pathway that runs through well-resourced schools is closed to most children here before it starts, not through any selection decision but because the school has no pitch, no kit and no budget to travel to a tournament. KNN has reported the same structural problem across Kibra football and athletics, where the constraint is never the number of players willing to train.
What to watch next
How the squads perform, and whether any of the selected players come from schools outside the established rugby circuit.
This story was put together by K N N from material first published by Education News.
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Kenya has named its squads for the East Africa Secondary Schools Games rugby competition, according to the source credited below.
Background
The East Africa Secondary Schools Games are the main regional competition for school sport, and for most players they are the highest level of representative rugby they will reach. School rugby has historically been the main pipeline into the Kenyan national sevens and fifteens sides, which is both a strength and a weakness: the pathway is real, but it runs almost entirely through a small number of schools with the facilities, coaching and travel budgets to compete.
Why it matters here
That is the part that matters in Kibra. A pathway that runs through well-resourced schools is closed to most children here before it starts, not through any selection decision but because the school has no pitch, no kit and no budget to travel to a tournament. KNN has reported the same structural problem across Kibra football and athletics, where the constraint is never the number of players willing to train.
What to watch next
How the squads perform, and whether any of the selected players come from schools outside the established rugby circuit.
