NAIROBI — Nationwide ladies’s volleyball crew are to start coaching in earnest for subsequent month’s Africa Girls’s Nations Volleyball Championships in Nairobi.
That is after the Kenya Volleyball Federation (KVF) named a 25-woman provisional squad to assemble and start preparations on the Kasarani Indoor Area within the capital.
“All invited gamers and officers are anticipated to report on time and be ready for the graduation of coaching. Following the preliminary coaching interval, seven (7) gamers shall be launched on 2nd August 2026, after which the remaining squad will proceed on residential coaching,” KVF deputy president Paul Bitok mentioned.
The crew, beneath the tutelage of Kenya Pipeline head coach Geoffrey Omondi, borrows closely from gamers of high golf equipment across the nation — who shone on the just-concluded Division One girls’ league.
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They embrace Marianne Sokoiyo of Kenya Pipeline, who was topped finest center blocker in addition to her teammate Emmanuel Nekesa, who was named finest setter.
Kenya Prisons’ Lorine Chebet who was topped finest server — regardless of shedding to Pipeline within the closing — additionally makes the provisional squad as does her clubmates Pauline Etoo, Sheila Khasandi, and Sharon Sandui.
KCB Volleyball’s Josephine Kataa, who was topped finest libero, additionally options within the squad, joined by fellow ‘bankers’ Juliana Namutira, Belinda Baraza and Pauline Chemutai.
Malkia Strikers are probably the most profitable crew within the historical past with 10 titles, their most up-to-date coming in 2023 after they walloped Cameroon in straight units in Yaounde.
They are going to be internet hosting the continental showpiece for the primary time since 2015 after they beat Algeria in straight units to win the crown.