Eyes on 2026 Youth Olympics as 36 budding rugby women sharpen expertise at Kenya Academy of Sports Elite Camp

NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 18 – Ahead of the 2026 Youth Olympics set to be hosted in Dakar, Senegal, Kenya is ticking the containers particularly on the event of rugby due to the Kenya Academy of Sports elite camp.

The women recreation is selecting up properly within the nation and in line with Sarah Otieno one of many trainers of the 36 women which have pitched camp at Lavington Secondary School in Nairobi, the camp shall be a feeder system to golf equipment and nationwide groups.

“This is a good initiative by Kenya Academy of Sports targeting 2026 Youth Olympics. This is the right path to take women’s rugby to the next level,” Sarah mentioned.

She is content material with how the younger women are greedy the trainings noting the one problem is on tackling which she believes by the tip of the one-week camp the gamers shall be good at it.

“We are now polishing the skills having been with the players for the last two weeks. The emphasis was to ensure they were able to catch and pass the ball and they are good at it now. We are now working on tackling because in a game of 7s or 15s the amount of time the player will be down cannot compared to when one will be on her feet, so we are trying our best to make sure that everyone is able to tackle,” she added.

Sarah, nevertheless, famous that there was a spot interms of transition of gamers from Secondary School to golf equipment in comparison with universities which is simpler.

“Come April and August during school holidays, we will do the same, we have already created the systems that will now make the work easier. We are training players to be all rounded not just come from home to play rugby but come from work to play rugby, so we will change the whole dimension of how people perceive rugby especially for the girls.”