US-based Wanjara keen to emulate her dad The Star Image: /COURTESY
• Uganda-based coach George Mayienga will handle the team assisted by Tony Ochieng, Mike Opel and Eunice Ouma for the Fiba Zone Five championships slated for Egypt in July where Kenya will battle Rwanda, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Somalia, South Sudan and hosts Egypt.
• I feel honoured and blessed. I’m very grateful to have been selected and have the opportunity to represent Team Kenya, Victoria said from her base in the US.
United States of America-based guard Victoria Wanjara is ready to help Kenya reclaim her position as a top team in Africa.
basketball Mercy Wanyama (L) of Equity Bank under pressure from Yvonne Akinyi of KPA in past event Image: file • Kenya were the second-best team in Africa in 1992, losing to Senegal in the FIBA AfroBasket finals in Dakar. The feat earned them a ticket to the World Championships in Australia in 1994.• In their last appearance in 2019, Kenya lost 55-39 to Mozambique, 64-51 to Angola and 64-57 to Cape Verde and missed out on the quarter-finals.