girl school's 7's rugby

on 24th march 2007, 2 girls schools (St Katherine's and Lira Integrated) from Lira (northern Uganda) travelled down to Kampala to take on St Lawrence A (Horizon and Creamland campuses) and St Lawrence B (Horizon and Creamland campuses) school teams in a round robin 7's tournament.

The Lira girls were too strong for the kampala girls and both teams thrashed the St Lawrence teams with score margins of 40 points to 0. St lawrence A beat it's B team 20 - 00 and St Katherine's and Lira Integrated played an exciting game between them. however, both teams marked each other well and the game ended in a 0 - 0 draw.

On the 14th april, the 3rd edition of the kyadondo 7's had a school girl's category. only teams from kampala took part. rangers rugby club entered rangers integrated academy (a combination of school girls from various schools in kampala) and st lawrence entered 2 teams of school girls drawn from teh Horizon, Creamland and Kabaka's Lake campuses. rangers integrated academy showed early on it was the team to beat when it walloped St Lawrence B 35 – 00. St Lawrence A similarly thrashed their B team 32 – 00. St Lawrence A and Rangers Integrated Academy were evenly matched and tussled it out to a 05 - 05 draw.

The Lira teams are coached by Andrew Erach, while the St lawrence teams are coached by Drake Muyodi (G4S Pirates) and Helen Buteme (Black Panthers). Rangers Integrated Academy is coached by Hadija Namuyanja (Rangers).

the potential showed by these school girls in both tournaments is awesome and things can only get better for ugandan women's rugby if these girls are nurtured and their talent developed both while they are still in school and after they complete their studies.