Malawi\u2019s sole netball export, Mwawi Kumwenda, has congratulated Kukoma Diamonds for winning the 2015 Presidential Cup over the weekend.<\/p>\n
In a post on her facebook page<\/em>, Mwawi said she had been informed from her New Zealand base that the encounter was a very tight one.<\/p>\n She said she was proud to be associated with a team that is rising to dominate Malawi netball but also hailed Tigresses for making the game a worthy cup final.<\/p>\n \u201cI want to congratulate both Kukoma Diamonds for winning the trophy and Tigresses for putting up a gallant fight in the final that ended 41-36 at the Blantyre Youth Centre.I have been informed that the match was tight in all the quarters and a marvel for netball lovers to watch,\u201d she wrote yesterday.<\/p>\n She went on to list down the entire Diamonds lineup and ended it with the sentence: \u201cCongrats girls!\u201d<\/p>\n Mwawi then listed down the names of five Tigresses players and ended with: \u201cLuck was not on your side! I am sure that now you are even more determined to face the future.\u201d<\/p>\n To Thunder Queens and Civonets, the netball icon said, \u201cThank you for an exciting and spirited third place play off.\u201d<\/p>\n She also had time to congratulate individual players: \u201cI want to specially commend Civonets\u2019 centre Rose Mkanda, who was named player of the tournament and Diamonds shooter Alinafe Kamwala who was voted the best shooter.\u201d<\/p>\n To the tournament\u2019s best defender Joanna Kachilika of Thunders and best centre Thandie Galeta, Mwawi said, \u201craise the game girls, and I look forward to teaming up with you again in the Malawi Queens \u2013 Our Queens Our Pride.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cCongratulations to you all!\u201d she concluded<\/p>\n Mwawi started her netball career with Diamonds, then known as Escom Sisters and whenever she returns home from New Zealand, she links up with the team closely.<\/p>\n The team got a reward of K4 million for winning the trophy, and are looking forward to taking it to their sponsors Capital Oil Refining Industries who had challenged the ladies to win it.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Africa\u2019s sole representative in the ongoing International World Games Association Athlete of the Year 2015, Mwawi, has tripled her lead in the contest.<\/p>\n With voting due to close on Sunday, the Malawian netball icon has opened a very wide gap with the rest of the other contestants, who, as of yesterday, were still struggling to reach 5,000 votes.<\/p>\n If Mwawi wins the award, it will be for the first time that a Malawian has won a high profile multi-discipline award of this kind.<\/p>\n She remains the only black and African athlete on the list of eighteen nominees that people across the world are voting for on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi\u2019s sole netball export, Mwawi Kumwenda, has congratulated Kukoma Diamonds for winning the 2015 Presidential Cup over the weekend. In a post on her facebook page, Mwawi said she had been informed from her New Zealand base that the encounter was a very tight one. She said she was proud to be associated with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17650,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17644\/revisions\/17650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}