{"id":67826,"date":"2018-07-02T06:53:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=67826"},"modified":"2018-07-02T06:53:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:53:50","slug":"nam-to-drum-up-support-for-lauren-ngwira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/07\/02\/nam-to-drum-up-support-for-lauren-ngwira\/","title":{"rendered":"Nam to drum up support for Lauren Ngwira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, has said they will run a campaign to promote Malawi national netball team player, Lauren Ngwira, to win the Vitality Superleague Player of the Season Award in the United Kingdom (UK).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are planning to run a sensitisation programme so as to ensure that Lauren gets more votes. This is a good development for the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/joyce-mvula-lauren-ngwira-dazzle-england-netball\/\">She has been to the UK for a few months but she is doing well<\/a>, so we need to support her,\u201d Bapu said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite joining Team Northumbria midway through the season, Ngwira is among 10 nominees for the award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is has been an unbelievable experience for me. To earn a nomination alongside top players in the league is not easy considering that I am just new. All I can say is, thank you God!,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Playing as a goalkeeper, Ngwira has won player-of-the match awards twice in the league.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>www.skysports. com<\/em>, teams were asked to nominate their top players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we want you to decide the winner. As we gear up for the semi-finals and grand final of the 2018 campaign, it is time to reflect of another brilliant season of Superleague action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs well as this year\u2019s champions, there is also the decision on who should be crowned the Sky Sports\/Vitality Superleague Player of the Year and, once again, the decision is yours,\u201d reads part of the article.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwira joined Northumbria from Tigresses after a protracted transfer wrangle.<\/p>\n<p>The towering player is the second Malawian in the UK league after shooter Joyce Mvula of Manchester Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula is completing her second season after joining from Blue Eagles Sisters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY MPHATSO MALIDADI: Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, has said they will run a campaign to promote Malawi national netball team player, Lauren Ngwira, to win the Vitality Superleague Player of the Season Award in the United Kingdom (UK). \u201cWe are planning to run a sensitisation programme so as to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":67830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67826","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\/67826","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=67826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67831,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67826\/revisions\/67831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}