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Brandon Moyo, Sports Reporter
LAKERS, a Bulawayo ladies’ basketball team has started early preparations for the upcoming season in an effort to defend the league title.
The club is working on individual player strengths and weaknesses. The team is also participating in pre-season games in order to have their players ready for what’s coming in the new season. The team won last season’s tournament after posting 13 wins and one loss.
“With talent and teamwork, we will work hard and the results will come out,” said the secretary general of Lakers basketball foundation, Porcia Dube.
Dube said preparations for the new season are going well and they have a junior ladies’ team travelling to South Africa for friendly games.
“Our junior ladies’ team, Mzansi, is travelling to South Africa for friendly games scheduled for this weekend in preparation for the upcoming season,” said Dube.
Sending juniors to South Africa is a way of trying to have a team of seasoned players both young and old according to Dube.
The club is trying their best to organise training exercises that are challenging for all their players in a bid to make them better than they already are.
Despite aiming to emulate their previous season, Lakers is also trying to help their players to excel in academics by trying to get them scholarships to play at college level.
“We also strive to pursue athletics scholarships for those players who have the desire and academic standing to play at the collegiate level. What you are as a person is more important than what you are as a basketball player,” said Dube.
The new season is proposed to start after 7 October after the pre-season is done. The final date will however be confirmed after the Bulawayo Basketball Association AGM meeting which is scheduled for September 10.
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