{"id":72233,"date":"2018-11-29T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=72233"},"modified":"2018-11-29T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:49:27","slug":"nam-cautions-players-on-early-pregnancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/11\/29\/nam-cautions-players-on-early-pregnancies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nam cautions players on early pregnancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Bernard Mhone:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72237\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/youth-netball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-72237\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/youth-netball-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/youth-netball-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/youth-netball-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/youth-netball.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">STRUGGLE TO REGAIN FORM AFTER GETTING PREGNANT\u2014Netball players<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) has cautioned netballers in the country to avoid early pregnancies, saying this affects the transition of players from clubs to the senior national team, the Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Nam said most of Queens\u2019 players are aged, hence the need for fresh blood.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the Northern Presidential Initiative on Sports regional finals held in Mzuzu over the weekend, Nam Vice-General Secretary, Brian Gausi, expressed dismay over prevalence of pregnancies among netballers, saying they affect performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is our plea to you, our netballers; please, let us avoid getting pregnant anyhow because your performance declines after you have gone on maternity leave. Look at our national team; it needs new blood because most of them are now over-aged. This greatly affects our transition,\u201d<\/em> Gausi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a separate interview, one of the players, Abigail Nyasulu for Karonga Queens concurred with Gausi, saying their form declines after falling pregnant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is really true because if you are an expectant, you cannot play in those nine months. And when you add the time you spend nursing a child, most of the times one retires from netball. Once you give birth, it is difficult to reclaim your form,\u201d<\/em> Nyasulu said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bernard Mhone: Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) has cautioned netballers in the country to avoid early pregnancies, saying this affects the transition of players from clubs to the senior national team, the Queens. Nam said most of Queens\u2019 players are aged, hence the need for fresh blood. Speaking during the Northern Presidential Initiative on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72233","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=72233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72238,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72233\/revisions\/72238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}