Universities scrap 10s rugby for 7s

By Johnson Were

The Organising committee of the East Africa University Games (EAUG) has dropped the usual 10s rugby and adopted 7s version of the game at this year’s championship next month  at Uganda Christian University (UCU) Mukono in December.

Vicent Kisenyi,  a member of the local organising committee and the Vice President of the National University Sports Federation of Uganda (Nusfu) told the Media at a press briefing where the Joint Medical store committed sh5m package to the event.

The adoption of the sevens version of the game is to prepapre players for the Olympic games.

“We looked at helping our national federations tap talents as they prepare teams for the Olympics and that is why we decided to come up with the 7s version on top of it being cheap to manage,” Kisenyi stated.

The decision was welcomed by URU Rugby manager Yayiro Kasasa who  told New Vision that the universities took a very good decision to have the sevens version of the game because it is going to help them develop the game further.

“This is going to help us to identify more talent for the future,” Kasasa who doubles as the Rugby Cranes 7s team assistant coach stated.

He further explained that as universities focus on developing their teams it will be easy for URU to form feeder teams so that that players overlapping gap is bridged.