{"id":461048,"date":"2011-07-14T15:48:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/14\/africa-namibia-based-basketball-star-gets-team-call\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T15:48:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T15:48:19","slug":"africa-namibia-based-basketball-star-gets-team-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/africa-namibia-based-basketball-star-gets-team-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Namibia-Based Basketball Star Gets Team Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"30.7090137165\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Dann O&#8217;werre<\/p>\n<p>13 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>NAMIBIA-based guard Vanessa Wacuka has been included in the All Africa Games national basketball provisional team.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Philip Onyango said Wacuka, a student in Windhoek, has been given a chance to prove herself when the team assembles for training on July 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>The coach said Wacuka, a little known player locally, wrote to Kenya Basketball Federation (KBF) asking to be given a chance to train with the team. She has been based in the US for the last 10 years. &#8220;We have given her a chance like any other player in the squad and she is expected home this week ready to train. We will see how good she is,&#8221; said Onyango.<\/p>\n<p>He said Mombasa-based Margaret Wambui has also been called up.<\/p>\n<p>The Shimba Hills tactician said with good training, the team, which has been grouped in pool &#8220;A&#8221; would do well in the Maputo games, where they play host Mozambique, Algeria, DR Congo, Nigeria and Zimbabwe in preliminary round.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Kenya Airways continued their dominance of the Nairobi Basketball (NBA) league after beating Multi Media University 67-62. They have 34 points.<\/p>\n<p>Barclays Bank are lying second on 30 points after beating Legacy 45-31 and Don Bosco 50-43. Old Pirates and Strathmore University are on 28 while Baraka Xtreme have 26 ahead of Upper Hill School (25).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107141205.html\" title=\"Africa: Namibia-Based Basketball Star Gets Team Call\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Africa: Namibia-Based Basketball Star Gets Team Call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Dann O&#8217;werre 13 July 2011 NAMIBIA-based guard Vanessa Wacuka has been included in the All Africa Games national basketball provisional team. Coach Philip Onyango said Wacuka, a student in Windhoek, has been given a chance to prove herself when the team assembles for training on July 22nd. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Africa: Namibia-Based Basketball Star Gets Team Call - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/14\/africa-namibia-based-basketball-star-gets-team-call\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Africa: Namibia-Based Basketball Star Gets Team Call - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Dann O&#039;werre 13 July 2011 NAMIBIA-based guard Vanessa Wacuka has been included in the All Africa Games national basketball provisional team. 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