The Uganda netball team arrived back home today from Australia where they had traveled to represent the country at the Netball World Cup. The performance at the World Cup was not bad as they managed to get wins over Trinidad and Tobago and Scotland and lost to Jamaica, South Africa and England, ending the tournament as the 7th best team in the World.
The She Cranes as they are called are lifting the Ugandan flag high putting the country into the spotlight. Netball is one of the 2 sports that Uganda competes at at the highest level. The other is sport is Athletics where Uganda has seen some good number of medals over the years. Football has not gone so well for the country, managing to exit the group stages of Afcon 2019 for the 1st time in 3 decades, basketball not good either as our performance at Africa level is terrible, Cricket is just growing.
The Netball team deserves a lot of respect and recognition for this magnificent contribution to the country. This is an inspiration to the many young Ugandan girls that they can make it too. Many children live hopeless in poverty and they need this kind of inspiration to get going in life.