By:Moses Kalungi
The Uganda Women Basketball team {the Gazelles} is set to compete at their third Afro basketball tournament having featured in the 1997 and 2015 edition. The Gazelles were flaged off to kigali at Onomo hotel in Nakasero by National Council of sports Chairman Ambrose Tashobya, and a former FUBA president and current owner of basketball side Kyambogo Warriors, who rallied the Gazelles to give 100% ahead of the Afrobasket tournament, which tips off on 28th July in Kigali, Rwanda.
The team will rely on players like captain Flavia Oketcho with her experience having plazyed basketball for over 16 years. The 12-time National Basketball League champion will once again lead the Gazelles at the 2023 Afrobasket edition in Kigali, and she asserts that the good preps they have done as a team will go a long way in helping them perform better.
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The team also has surprise players to watch like Claire Lamunu who had her first session with the team Monday morning at African Bible University, Lubowa. Uganda Gazelles forward Claire Lamunu cannot wait for her first game of the FIBA Women’s Afrobasket 2023.
Having joined the team on Saturday ahead of Friday’s first game, Lamunu revealed the magnitude of the stage like Afrobasket and how big it is for all involved
The Gazelles are coached by Spaniard Alberto Antuna and they are pooled in group c with Mail and Senegal.
Uganda Gazelles’ final team
Flavia Oketcho, Jannon Otto, Hope Akello, Lydia Babirye, Rita Imanishimwe, Evelyn Nakiyingi, Maria Najjuma, Melissa Akullu, Brenda Ekone, Jane Asinde, Claire Lamunu, Priscilla Abby.
The Afrobasket groups.
Group A: Rwanda, Angola, Ivory Coast
Group B: Cameroon, Guinea, Mozambique
Group C: Mali, Senegal, Uganda.
Group D: Nigeria, DR. Congo, Egypt.
