MEET ANEK, A TEACHER OF ENGLISH AND RUGBY PLAYER.
Anek Patricia is a primary teacher of English in Gulu and rugby player with the Lady Cranes XV team. 1. What school do you teach at? Road nursery and primary school in Gulu 2. What subjects do you teach? I teach English only. 3. Which classes do you teach? I teach Primary 1 and 3. […]
World Rugby launches ‘This Is How We Sevens’ campaign ahead of Olympics
World Rugby has launched a major new rugby sevens campaign – “This Is How We Sevens” – as excitement builds towards the Olympic Games in Tokyo, which kicks off in under 50 days. The campaign aims to showcase the vibrancy, excitement and breadth of personalities involved across rugby sevens, supporting World Rugby’s core objective of […]
Retained Rugby Cranes squad named.
The Uganda Rugby Cranes’ coaching team has today announced 34 players retained in the training camp. “We have retained determined players who are willing to learn and work as a unit.We shall just work on the unit skills and improve on their individual prowess to play.”– Coach Brian Makalama List of retained players: 1. Josiah […]
Match schedule confirmed for World Rugby Sevens Repechage.
Uganda 7s will get their bid to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games underway against Jamaica in their opening game of the World Rugby Sevens Repechage in Monaco in June. The games will take place at the Stade Louis II stadium starting on Friday, 18 June with Zimbabwe vs Mexico followed by Uganda vs Jamaica. […]
Lady Cranes XV Selection.
Lady Cranes XV coach Leonard Lubambula has today announced the 30-woman squad for the second camp of the national team. A squad of 32 players was summoned for the first camp in Jinja last week from which two trial games were played. It is from this camp that players were evaluated for national team selection. […]
PHOTOS: RUGBY CRANES FIRST TRAINING SESSION.
Uganda 7s in preparation for Repechage tournament.
The Uganda 7s team has resumed training in preparation for the World Rugby Repechage tournament from 19th- 20th June in Monaco. The repechage tournament is a one-off event to determine the final two women’s and one men’s teams to qualify for the rugby sevens competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which were delayed until […]
Lady Cranes’ first training camp to end on Sunday.
The Uganda XV women’s rugby team (Lady Cranes) training camp comes to an end on Sunday morning. The 8-day camp which featured 31 players had 2 trial games from which the management of the team was able to identify areas of major focus. “This camp has given us a needs assessment for the team, their […]
Antidoping session for Uganda 7s
The Uganda Olympic Committee today had an anti-doping education session with the Uganda 7s at their headquarters in Lugogo. The session was conducted by Mr Christopher Mbowa with attendance of 15 Uganda 7s players and 5 members from the management of the team. Mr Christopher Oluk, Senior Doping Control Officer also educated the Uganda 7s […]
Women’s Rugby: Training camp in Jinja
The Lady Cranes XV team is in camp from 16th-22nd May 2021 as they prepare for the international games ahead. The team had their first trial game in the camp yesterday (19th May 2021) with 28 girls playing 14-aside. “Our focus was to see where the girls are in their transition from the recently completed […]