{"id":240405,"date":"2026-08-05T19:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-baa-focuses-on-squad-depth-to-secure-legacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:41:01","slug":"botswana-baa-focuses-on-squad-depth-to-secure-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-baa-focuses-on-squad-depth-to-secure-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Baa Focuses On Squad Depth to Secure Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Gaborone \u2014 The Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) is looking to aggressively build a deeper pool of talent to end the nation&#8217;s long-standing reliance on a select group of elite runners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">For years, the exceptional international performances of Letsile Tebogo, Collen Kebinatshipi and Bayapo Ndori have brought home silverware, a success that occasionally masked the need for broader squad depth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">However, the national team&#8217;s performance at the recent Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games underscored the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050638.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) is looking to aggressively build a deeper pool of talent to end the nation&#8217;s long-standing reliance on a select group of elite runners. For years, the exceptional international performances of Letsile Tebogo, Collen Kebinatshipi and Bayapo Ndori have brought home silverware, a success that occasionally masked the need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,29459,4718,2462,35778,7132,11879,257,7904,254,8984],"class_list":["post-240405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baa","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-depth","tag-focuses","tag-legacy","tag-news","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240405","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}