The Kenya Rugby Union Board of Directors held a breakfast meeting on 25th February at the Dusit D2 with several of the Union’s stakeholders. The essence of the meeting was to brief the various partners, parents, club chairmen and player representatives on…
With the 2020 Rugby Africa Cup dates already released by Rugby Afrique, the governing body of the sport in the continent, the Simbas technical team has set 1st March as the first training session of the squad. The team will be training…
Stanbic Mwamba won the second leg of the Women’s Festival by finishing top after the round-robin format in the top tier (Pool A). Pool B saw Shamas Rugby Foundation claim the victory in tier two category by going unbeaten and not conceding…
Stanbic Mwamba made it two wins from two tournaments as the KRU Women’s 10-a- Festival’s second round took place at the KCB Sports Club in Ruaraka on Sunday 23 February 2020. They had earlier won the first leg at the Kenyatta University…
Oscar Ouma and Samuel Oliech are the most significant inclusions as the Kenya Men’s National Sevens squad was named for the fifth and sixth rounds of the 2019/2020 HSBC Sevens World Series in Los Angeles, USA and Vancouver, Canada.
The annual five-week-long women’s tournament will from now henceforth be played in two tiers. The division is based on the different levels of competition displayed by the teams, the age difference between players and the conditioning of the teams. The league previously…
Ben Mahinda, a certified World Rugby Medical Educator and the physiotherapist for the National Women’s Teams will be conducting a First Aid In Rugby course in Ghana from the 18th to 22nd February 2020. The course will be in Accra Ghana. The…
“World Rugby, the Hong Kong Rugby Union and Sport Singapore have taken the decision to reschedule the Hong Kong and Singapore rounds of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 in response to continued health concerns relating to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, February 12, 2020/ — Rugby Africa have announced the appointment of Ms Maha Zaoui as Women’s Rugby Manager and Mr Mudiwa Mundawarara as Referee Manager. Both newly created positions are key strategic pillars for actively driving the expansion of…
Vincent Chweya is the former Kenya Rugby Union Match Officials’ Administrator, a position he held from 2013 to early 2019. Prior to this appointment, he had served as the Captain and later Chairman of Kenyatta University’s Rugby Team, Blak Blad. He is…
The Kenya women’s national sevens team, Lionesses, are among the twelve teams lined up to compete at the inaugural HSBC Sevens Challenger Series event for women, which will take place at the Danie Craven Stadium in Stellenbosch, South Africa on 28-29 March,…
Stanbic Mwamba won the opening round of the KRU Women’s festival at the Kenyatta University, defeating Northern Suburbs 19-0 in a hotly contested final on Sunday 9 February 2020. Mwamba had earlier finished top of Pool C after stopping hosts Blad Babes…
Mombasa, Kakamega and Nakuru were confirmed by the Kenya Rugby Union on Friday as venues for three of the Simbas test matches in 2020. Mombasa will play host to the Africa Cup fixture between Kenya and Morocco on 30 May before Kakamega…
2020 is set to be an exciting yet challenging year for the Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) as we have been selected to host the Rugby Africa Barthes U20 Trophy where we are the defending champions. This event will take place between 19th…
BLK is pleased to announce the signing of a technical sponsorship agreement with the Kenya Rugby Union (KRU). The partnership will see BLK become the official technical partner of the KRU, supplying the Simbas, Lionesses and Chipu with an extensive series of…
Kenya’s U20 team, Chipu, and the Barthes Cup defending champions are slowly picking up the pace as they prepare for the 2020 competition that’ll be in Nairobi in April. The team has its conditioning and skills sessions every Tuesday and Thursday at…
Defending Champions Top Fry Nakuru ladies are top seeds as this year’s Women’s festival kicks off on 9th February at the Kenyatta University grounds. Nakuru won three of the total five legs: The first one held at the Kenyatta University Grounds, the…
The Kenya men’s sevens national team, Shujaa, are in Pool B for the fifth round of the 2019/20 HSBC Sevens World Series, the USA Sevens taking place in Los Angeles on 29th February and 1st March. Shujaa have been pooled alongside South…
