Wednesday 27th August – Wednesday 10th September: fitness, contact drills, games and game plan (defence and attack). along the way, robert seguya (soggy) joined the coaching team as mutaks’ co-coach - he’s played lots of 7’s for uganda. training has been going well except the deadly boda boda (joan andika) and no nonsense asha sonko are both injured and are unlikely to recover in time for the tournament.
after a hillwork session with doc the dreaded ice bath reared its ugly head on wednesday (10th sept). it provided comedy depending on which way one looked at it. the ice bath is supposed to help with quick recovery and one has to get in up to the neck and stay there for between 40 seconds to one minute (sheer madness if you ask me). anyway, we had one prior to the elgon cup (which we lost) in august as a 15’s team and charlotte and i made a big production about not getting into the ice. tears were shed but eventually charlotte got in for about 10 seconds however i escaped. after a long struggle, kayonjo (in picture with ball) got in and afterwards swore that people wanted to kill her ... this time round, other actresses wrote themselves into the icebath comedy script: kyoita and brenda (2 rookies) were dragged kicking and screaming into the showers while kayonjo took off into the night faster than usain bolt. charlotte and i tried appealing to docs sweet nature and came up with all sorts of allergies to cold water but he was having none of it. in the end, charlotte, kyoita and i jumped in together screaming blue murder and chanting ‘we can do it, we can do it’ then got out after 10 seconds yelling that we could not. doc was not at all impressed and ordered us back in. after lots of drama, we completed our 40 seconds in sets of 10. brenda got into the icebath looking like she was going for a funeral and did about 20 seconds in sets of 10 before doc’s heart softened and he let her go. as for kayonjo, she re-emerged from her hiding place in time for the team supper …
after the team supper, mutaks read out the provisional squad of 14 – he said the final cut will be on 17th.
The 14
Aalliya Adania (Rangers)
Winnie Atyang (Thunderbirds)
Stella Bakole (Thunderbirds)
Helen Buteme (Black Panthers)
Fortunate Irankunda (Black Panthers)
Rachael Kakaire (Thunderbirds)
Rosenburg Kanyunyuzi (Thunderbirds)
Brenda Kayiyi (Black Panthers)
Harriet Kayonjo (Thunderbirds)
Christine Kizito (Thunderbirds)
Mary Kyoita (Rangers)
Charlotte Mudoola (Rangers)
Prossy Nakakande (Black Panthers)
Josephine Namayega (Thunderbirds)
after a hillwork session with doc the dreaded ice bath reared its ugly head on wednesday (10th sept). it provided comedy depending on which way one looked at it. the ice bath is supposed to help with quick recovery and one has to get in up to the neck and stay there for between 40 seconds to one minute (sheer madness if you ask me). anyway, we had one prior to the elgon cup (which we lost) in august as a 15’s team and charlotte and i made a big production about not getting into the ice. tears were shed but eventually charlotte got in for about 10 seconds however i escaped. after a long struggle, kayonjo (in picture with ball) got in and afterwards swore that people wanted to kill her ... this time round, other actresses wrote themselves into the icebath comedy script: kyoita and brenda (2 rookies) were dragged kicking and screaming into the showers while kayonjo took off into the night faster than usain bolt. charlotte and i tried appealing to docs sweet nature and came up with all sorts of allergies to cold water but he was having none of it. in the end, charlotte, kyoita and i jumped in together screaming blue murder and chanting ‘we can do it, we can do it’ then got out after 10 seconds yelling that we could not. doc was not at all impressed and ordered us back in. after lots of drama, we completed our 40 seconds in sets of 10. brenda got into the icebath looking like she was going for a funeral and did about 20 seconds in sets of 10 before doc’s heart softened and he let her go. as for kayonjo, she re-emerged from her hiding place in time for the team supper …
after the team supper, mutaks read out the provisional squad of 14 – he said the final cut will be on 17th.
The 14
Aalliya Adania (Rangers)
Winnie Atyang (Thunderbirds)
Stella Bakole (Thunderbirds)
Helen Buteme (Black Panthers)
Fortunate Irankunda (Black Panthers)
Rachael Kakaire (Thunderbirds)
Rosenburg Kanyunyuzi (Thunderbirds)
Brenda Kayiyi (Black Panthers)
Harriet Kayonjo (Thunderbirds)
Christine Kizito (Thunderbirds)
Mary Kyoita (Rangers)
Charlotte Mudoola (Rangers)
Prossy Nakakande (Black Panthers)
Josephine Namayega (Thunderbirds)
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