Rwanda Vitality Group (REG) have shifted their focus to the FIBA Africa Zone 5 Ladies’s Membership Championship scheduled for November.
REG retained the nationwide ladies’s basketball league title after sweeping The Hoops Rwanda 4-0 within the best-of-seven playoff last collection, finishing a dominant marketing campaign with a convincing 73-46 victory in Recreation 4.
The triumph secured REG’s place as Rwanda’s representatives on the regional championship, which brings collectively high ladies’s basketball golf equipment from throughout Africa. At the least 10 groups have already confirmed their participation.
The confirmed members embody golf equipment from Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, South Sudan and Rwanda.
FIBA Africa is but to announce the host nation for the 2026 Ladies’s Basketball League Africa (WBLA) Zone 5 qualifiers.
REG head coach Esperance Mukaneza instructed Instances Sport that the crew will start preparations for the competitors subsequent week.
“We wish to win the Zone V title, and we’ve solely a brief interval of two months. After all, it won’t be simple, however we’ve to compete,” Mukaneza mentioned.
She added that the home league had supplied the crew with helpful preparation forward of the regional competitors.
“The league has helped us acquire helpful expertise, with a lot of the gamers having performed towards a number of the greatest gamers within the home league,” she famous.
REG had been amongst two Rwandan golf equipment that represented the nation within the 2025 version of the Zone 5 championship, alongside APR. The 2 sides met within the last, the place APR emerged 82-71 winners to say their first WBLA Zone 5 title.
Based in 2021 and sponsored by Rwanda Vitality Group, REG have shortly established themselves as a dominant power in Rwanda’s home ladies’s basketball, whereas additionally making their mark on the regional stage.
