23 Students Represent Rwanda at East African Games

{{Twenty three teams including 12 boys and 11 girls from Rwanda Secondary schools will represent Rwanda at the East African post primary games scheduled to take place at Lira town in North Uganda.}}

According to lorent Rwigema the Rwanda School Sports Federation (RSSF) Executive Secretary, “We shall set-off from Lycée de Kigali tomorrow (today) morning at 9am after a short briefing of all athletes.”

The games will start August 24 and conclude on August 31. Several Teams from the region will compete in games including; athletics, badminton,basketball, netball, hockey ,football, handball, rugby, table tennis and tennis.

However, Rwanda will not be represented in the Badminton and Hockey competition.
In the previous competitions held in 2012 in Burundi capital Bujumbura, Rwanda didnt score any points.

Boys’ teams

APE Rugunga and ESI Gisenyi (football), Saint Joseph Kabgayi and Lycée de Nyanza (volleyball), Lycée de Kigali and College Amis des Enfants (basketball), ES Kigoma and Saint Aloys Rwamagana (handball), ET Mukingi (rugby), 20-athlete team of athletics, two-man teams of tennis and table tennis.

Girls’ teams

Solidarity Academy (football), GS Indangaburezi and Saint Joseph Kabgayi (volleyball), ET Mukingi and APAPEKI Cyuru (handball), APE Rugunga (basketball), GS Gahini (netball), 20-athlete team of athletics, two-player teams of tennis and table tennis.

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