Dar Swimming Team for Nairobi Youth Tourney

The Citizen (Dar es Salaam)

Fadhil Iddy

10 May 2011

A 10-member squad of Dar es Salaam regional swimming team is expected to leave for Nairobi, Kenya on Friday for this year’s Kenya junior championship opening on Saturday. The two-day event will involve young swimmers from Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania and hosts Kenya.

Dar Swimming Club secretary general Inviolata Itatiro said yesterday that four officials would accompany the team to Nairobi for the championship.”We expect to field ten swimmers in the Nairobi junior championship, five of them are girls and the rest are boys,” she said. She said the swimmers were in high spirits, looking forward to making their presence felt in the event.

The team has been camping in Dar es Salaam since last month under close supervision of coach Ferick Kalengela for the championship, which will involve the crème of young swimmers in the East African region.

“I am optimistic our team will make an impact in the championship. The youngsters constituting the team are among those who stole the show during the national championship last weekend,” she said.

She named the youngsters who will make the trip to Kenya as Maya Somaiya, Florence Steck, Agnes Godfrey, Junice Njunguni, Celina Itatiro, Eric Emanuel, Radhia Gereza, Megetan Zhou, Yoko Wetzel and Elma Mlima.

She said participating swimmers would compete in 50 and 100km in free style, back stroke, butter fly and medley.

“They (participating teams) compete in the Under-12 and 16 categories,” she said, adding that the event was aimed at promoting the sport in the region as well as fostering relationship among participating teams.

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