Coach Jazz Upbeat Future Basketball Stars Will Emerge From KAS Holiday Sports Camps
MOMBASA, Kenya, Dec 12 – With Kenya’s junior basketball improvement on the precise trajectory, coach and referee Justus Akwesa fondly referred to as Jazz has challenged the Kenya Academy of Sports (KAS) to escalate the vacation sports activities camps to 3 occasions yearly.
Jazz, who is likely one of the coaches coaching younger aspiring basketball gamers on the Mombasa KAS camp, mentioned benefiting from the April, August and December college holidays will improve manufacturing of many and higher future stars since coaches and gamers could have ample time.
“My humble request to KAS is that when the students close school in April, August and December we should have these camps because they are the only channels where the national under 19 teams can train together for synergy,” Jazz outlined.
Jazz referred to as on the Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) to maximise on the presence of the camps and use it as a feeder system to the nationwide groups.
“My suggestion to KBF is to use coaches who come from different counties to tap talent there and forward the best to the national office. We saw the 3X3 team that was selected… If the selectors had gone to the counties, I am sure they would have come out with the best,” Jazz mentioned.
The coach is impressed with the expertise displayed in Mombasa the place the boys are being educated expertise in each division.
“The boys are wonderful, they have skills, we have each and every department here, they are doing fine and they are energetic. The players were selected on merit during the county games hosted in Mombasa,” Jazz acknowledged.
He added, “The camp will help us select the best from the coast region and have opportunity to represent the country in the national under 18 assignments.”
With NBA Kenya specializing in improvement of junior gamers, Jazz is upbeat KAS might be used as a hub.
“It’s a privilege to have NBA in Kenya, my humble request would be if they want players, they could get in touch with KAS and they will be given a pool of players to select from.”
