Yesterday
Uganda 39:70 Gabon
Today
Uganda 50:73 Mozambique
Uganda’s leading sportswoman Peace Proscovia is a living proof that one can become a jack and master of basketball and netball, with the towering 25-year old proving an asset to the serial losing Gazelles, who are making a debut appearance at the Afro Basketball Championships in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde.
Uganda is in group A drawn with hosts Cameroon, South Africa, Mali, Mozambique and Gabon and yesterday, the Gazelles fell to Gabon 39:70 and today they have fallen to Mozambique 50:73 but Proscovia stood out of the crowd on Wednesday, scoring 9 and making 8 assists/rebounds in the first game against Gabon.
“It’s always a challenge and hard to play your first games against big teams but we are determined and prepared to face any challenges in the next games,” assistant coach Nimrod Kaboha told Eagle Online by phone from Cameroon.
Uganda’s Gazelles are without star players Sharon Karungi and Claire Lamunu, both in the US on basketball scholarships, but Peace Proscovia, who also turns out for the national Netball team, the She Cranes, has salvaged the little respect the team deserves.
The 1.93m netballer plays professional netball with Loughborough Lighting in the United Kingdom and has just returned from representing Uganda in Australia, where she was ‘talk of Sydney’ and helped Uganda reach the quarter finals of the Netball World Cup.
“It’s all about mental focus; I have my own schedules that I follow for the two games and the best thing I do is to switch my mind according to the game I play,” Peace Proscovia, says when asked how she manages to juggle the two sports.
Peace Proscovia is currently pursuing a Masters Degree in marketing and management at the Loughborough University and said she would pursue both sports disciplines for club and country until that time when her body can no longer permit.
