{"id":64677,"date":"2018-05-01T06:34:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=64677"},"modified":"2018-05-01T06:34:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:34:48","slug":"mwawi-kumwenda-shines-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/05\/01\/mwawi-kumwenda-shines-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Mwawi Kumwenda shines in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi national netball team top shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, picked her first Player of the Match award after inspiring Melbourne Vixens to a narrow 59-58 victory over Magpies to launch their 2018 Suncorp Super Netball first-round campaign in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The win marked a good start for Vixens as they hunt for silverware.<\/p>\n<p>Mwawi, through her local Manager Hlupikire Chalamba, hailed teammates for the dream start to the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We are] hoping for the best for the rest of the season. I am just proud of the girls and thank God for the first Player of the Match award of the season. We are stronger together Vixens family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Queens\u2019 shooter also emerged top scorer for the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia for the second successive time.<\/p>\n<p>Mwawi scored 254 goals with her accuracy increasing to 92.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>During the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in Scotland in 2014, Mwawi won the accolade after scoring 230 baskets with an accuracy of 90 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi national netball team top shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, picked her first Player of the Match award after inspiring Melbourne Vixens to a narrow 59-58 victory over Magpies to launch their 2018 Suncorp Super Netball first-round campaign in Australia. The win marked a good start for Vixens as they hunt for silverware. Mwawi, through her local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64677","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\/64677","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=64677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64682,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64677\/revisions\/64682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}