At the ongoing World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in Chile, Kenya lionesses have shown their capabilities after losing not a single match in their Group D matches.
Kenya lionesses have now qualified into the quarter finals. In group stages, they won first match against Chile 17-15.
They won their second match against South Africa 31-5 to qualify to the next eight.
Other teams that qualified into quarter finals include Kazakhstan, Poland and Japan.
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Judith Auma, Lionesses captain, led the team secure a slot in the quarters. Grace Adhiambo and Naomi Amuguni showed impressive performance with their unconverted try.
The Lionesses coach Dennis Mwanja said they will try everything to qualify.
“It is not beyond our capabilities to qualify but that will take a lot of growing up, there is no magic wand that can be waved to get instant results,” Mwanja told KRU media in an interview.
“It is about the input as well, these girls don’t have many tournaments to play, they don’t have a lot of exposure. Making it to the knockouts will be good for us but what is important is taking it a game at a time.
“As mentioned earlier, the team is rebuilding. This rebuilding team is a team that has to first of all get that confidence in high level competitions. Once they get their confidence going, then we can be able to challenge all other teams.” He added.
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