African Women’s Handball Championship : Lionesses Bracing Up In Earnest

At about 5:30 p.m. on Friday April 16, 2021, the Handball Lionesses of Cameroon were already at the Yaounde Multipurpose Sports Complex to continue fine-tuning strategies ahead of the African Women’s Handball Championship slated for June 2021 in Cameroon. The training session which begins normally at 6 p.m. and runs for two hours is a routine daily exercise of the second bloc of the team’s training camp. The training began on March 16 and is expected to run till the end of the competition. It is currently made up of some 25 players including two athletes from the diaspora. Other international players are expected to integrate the team. The evening training session is preceded daily by a morning session which begins from 6:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. To the team’s coach, Serge Guebogo, the two-session routine exercise has been a major asset to the team and is unfolding hitch-free. 
The interaction of the girls 30 minutes to Friday’s evening session, depicted a team united and determined to win. They all had their facemask on in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus. When it was 6 p.m., they got to their normal warm up postures. After this exercise, they began the training proper, working on precision, defense and offensive moves. “You should be aggressive in your defense,” one of the trainers shouted when she noticed some lapses. “Prioritise low balls,” coach Guebogo insisted while working on the goal scoring skills of the girls. At the same time, he urged the goal keepers t...