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Kenya Ports Authority’s Felmas Adhiambo (right) challenges Berine Okoth of Kenyatta University during their basketball league match at the KPA Makande Gymnasium in Mombasa on July 29, 2017. KPA won 92-24. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT |
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- “My rough estimate puts at 35 the number of students who have left for studies to USA from Mombasa High School, Shimba Hills and Kaya Tiwi Secondary alone, and this gives me a lot of satisfaction as a principal as it demystifies the stereotype that students at the Coast are never serious in studies,” an elated Aran, whose Kaya Tiwi Secondary are the national champions in basketball said.
- Aran is a former games teacher and principal at Shimba Hills. Kaya Tiwi are also the netball champions.
Kenya Ports Authority women’s basketball team start life without star forward Felmas Adhiambo Koranga when they take on Strathmore Swords and Storms on Saturday and on Sunday respectively at the United States International University - Africa (USIU) basketball courts.
KPA start the second leg fixtures without the star forward who is currently in USA on a basketball scholarship. The Kenya international star forward is in Tyler University on a sports scholarship to study and play basketball.
Speaking to Nation Sport on Thursday, the 22-year-old former Shimba Hills Secondary School student said she she was in good company at the institution as her former classmates Taudencia Katumbi and Linet Juma, who joined the Texas-based college after completing their secondary education at the Kwale-based school three years ago were helping her to settle down well.
“I am happy that finally my dream has come true. When I joined Shimba Hills Secondary at Form Two in 2011, I had a target to follow on the footsteps of Jackline Wasuda, Josephine, Owino, Brenda Wasuda, Mildred Olumasi, Gladys Wanyama, Beatrice Awino and many more who used the game of basketball at the Coast Schools to land in the US. I thank God that my dream has come true”, the soft-spoken Adhiambo, who has been KPA’s mainstay inside the paint said.
She arrived in the US on Monday.
The star forward was particularly grateful to the former Shimba Hills Secondary School principal Robert Aran who is now at Kaya Tiwi, current Shimba Hills Principal Salim Kitauro and her school coaches whom she says helped change her life for the better.
“My rough estimate puts at 35 the number of students who have left for studies to USA from Mombasa High School, Shimba Hills and Kaya Tiwi Secondary alone, and this gives me a lot of satisfaction as a principal as it demystifies the stereotype that students at the Coast are never serious in studies,” an elated Aran, whose Kaya Tiwi Secondary are the national champions in basketball said.
Aran is a former games teacher and principal at Shimba Hills. Kaya Tiwi are also the netball champions.
