Kenya Prisons draw champions Al Ahly

What you need to know:

  • Kenya Prisons have been drawn alongside defending champions Al Ahly of Tunisia for this year’s Women’s African Volleyball Championship.
  • The 10-day competition serves off Thursday at the Ksar Hellal Jamel Hall in Tunisia’s coastal city of Monastir, some 130km away from the country’s capital in Tunis.
  • Prisons, who have won the competition five times, will face off with Ahly on Thursday at the 8pm (Kenyan time) in their Pool B opener.

Kenya Prisons have been drawn alongside defending champions Al Ahly of Tunisia for this year’s Women’s African Volleyball Championship.

The 10-day competition serves off Thursday at the Ksar Hellal Jamel Hall in Tunisia’s coastal city of Monastir, some 130km away from the country’s capital in Tunis.

Prisons, who have won the competition five times, will face off with Ahly on Friday at 8pm (Kenyan time) in their Pool B opener.

The wardresses will also face debutantes Asec University of Zimbabwe and another home side Marsa in the four team Pool. Kenya’s other representative Kenya Pipeline are in Pool C alongside Sonatrach (Algeria), APR (Rwanda) and Bafia (Cameroon).

Pipeline play APR on Friday at 2pm and will be hoping to get their campaign off to a winning start.

Al Ahly is the most successful club in the competitions’ history with eight titles to their name, with Kenya Pipeline a close second with seven titles. The top two teams in the four pools will advance to the last eight stage of the competition.

Despite dominating the African scene in the last decade, neither Pipeline nor Prisons made it to last year’s final, and this year’s edition gives each of them an opportunity to reclaim the continental club title that has eluded Kenya since 2013.

DRAW

Pool A: Carthage, Organizer (TUN), Asec (CIV), INJS (CMR), Ndejje (UGA)

Pool B: Ahly (EGY), University (ZIM), Marsa (TUN), Bejaia (ALG), Prisons (KEN)

Pool C: Pipeline (KEN), Sonatrach (ALG), Army (RWA), Bafia (CMR)

Pool D: Shams (EGY), ARSU (SEY), Sfaxien (TUN), FAP (CMR)