{"id":229312,"date":"2026-04-02T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-wheelchair-basketball-team-cry-for-more-opportunities-after-tough-outing-at-african-championships\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:36:09","slug":"kenya-wheelchair-basketball-team-cry-for-more-opportunities-after-tough-outing-at-african-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-wheelchair-basketball-team-cry-for-more-opportunities-after-tough-outing-at-african-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Wheelchair Basketball Team Cry for More Opportunities After Tough Outing At African Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>National women&#8217;s wheelchair basketball team coach Sarah Libese has called for more playing opportunities if they are to realise their potentially.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Libese says that playing regularly is the only way for the girls to overcome the pressure of competing on the biggest stages and blocking out the roaring noise of the crowds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;With more games internationally, we will achieve our goal. It&#8217;s a process we are now undertaking that has a low begining, but a higher ending,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604020315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI \u2014 National women&#8217;s wheelchair basketball team coach Sarah Libese has called for more playing opportunities if they are to realise their potentially. Libese says that playing regularly is the only way for the girls to overcome the pressure of competing on the biggest stages and blocking out the roaring noise of the crowds. &#8220;With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":229313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4380,10261,7540,11188,4688,430,257,13281,19684,254,7142,5039,7677],"class_list":["post-229312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-basketball","tag-championships","tag-cry","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-opportunities","tag-outing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-tough","tag-wheelchair"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}