Killing or nurturing sports talents? Maasai Mara University’s Sports Department!
Maasai Mara University houses students with diverse talents in various games. Co-curricular activities, writing with a lot of confidence, are sources of earning incomes. Football, volleyball, rugby, hockey, table tennis, lawn tennis, handball and basketball are in their worst states here.
Take a look at the football field, it’s very bushy. The institution hires workers to clean the rest of the compound but fail to think about the field, a place of recreation marring many students from engaging in illegal and immoral activities during their free time. The ones using the field are forced to hire hoes and pangas to do the cleanings. The basketball court is very pathetic, the hard surface has been eroded mercilessly, and I wonder what sort of a contractor was hired to do its construction. To me, he/she was an unskilled one. How can a court which has been constructed by professional get flooded whenever rain falls? Seems like he/she lacked the knowledge of the terrain. Are there hoops on the basketball posts really? I have never seen even a single one. The rugby pitch doesn’t have even a single post. Very early in the morning and late hours in the evening you would see players race on the rocky surface making them highly susceptible to injuries whenever they would fall down. Mentioning handball pitch now is a taboo because it is not existing. It’s like the small space that remains in front of house where children would bask in the sun after bathing.
Why can a bigger institution like this fail to provide balls, boots, nets, hockey sticks, gloves, socks and helmets yet there is an inclusion of activities fee in the students’ school fees? Why should students use their hard-earned sporting materials that are only meant for trainings to represent an institution that sees no importance of sports? Other universities apart from providing better education are busy nurturing the talents of their students. They raise them to higher platforms where various sporting agencies would easily identify them and even absorb them. This is contrary to what Maasai Mara University does .Let’s take a look. The male football team has only a single jersey which has been existing since time immemorial. To make the matter worse, this red unstylish jersey is even shared with the ladies football team! In short, no sport has more than a single pair of an outfit, so shameless. The institution provides a single ball for each team once in a semester and I wonder if this is exactly the right thing to do. The nets tied on the goal posts are hired from a very benevolent person who understands the worth of football. In return, he only gets the players appreciation because he doesn’t need any payment from them, even if the players were willing to.
I am always sad seeing a single coach manage both boys and girls in a given sport while others don’t have a coach at all. Being a coach isn’t so easy and the institution should provide him with the necessary training equipment, not that he has to buy his own and ferry them with him whenever he comes for the sessions. The only thing he is to provide is the technical know-how!
Let’s make Maasai Mara University a better place just as it is in academics. Co-curricular activities blended with academics can take MMARAU to greater heights.
Maasai Mara University houses students with diverse talents in various games. Co-curricular activities, writing with a lot of confidence, are sources of earning incomes. Football, volleyball, rugby, hockey, table tennis, lawn tennis, handball and basketball are in their worst states here.
Take a look at the football field, it’s very bushy. The institution hires workers to clean the rest of the compound but fail to think about the field, a place of recreation marring many students from engaging in illegal and immoral activities during their free time. The ones using the field are forced to hire hoes and pangas to do the cleanings. The basketball court is very pathetic, the hard surface has been eroded mercilessly, and I wonder what sort of a contractor was hired to do its construction. To me, he/she was an unskilled one. How can a court which has been constructed by professional get flooded whenever rain falls? Seems like he/she lacked the knowledge of the terrain. Are there hoops on the basketball posts really? I have never seen even a single one. The rugby pitch doesn’t have even a single post. Very early in the morning and late hours in the evening you would see players race on the rocky surface making them highly susceptible to injuries whenever they would fall down. Mentioning handball pitch now is a taboo because it is not existing. It’s like the small space that remains in front of house where children would bask in the sun after bathing.
Why can a bigger institution like this fail to provide balls, boots, nets, hockey sticks, gloves, socks and helmets yet there is an inclusion of activities fee in the students’ school fees? Why should students use their hard-earned sporting materials that are only meant for trainings to represent an institution that sees no importance of sports? Other universities apart from providing better education are busy nurturing the talents of their students. They raise them to higher platforms where various sporting agencies would easily identify them and even absorb them. This is contrary to what Maasai Mara University does .Let’s take a look. The male football team has only a single jersey which has been existing since time immemorial. To make the matter worse, this red unstylish jersey is even shared with the ladies football team! In short, no sport has more than a single pair of an outfit, so shameless. The institution provides a single ball for each team once in a semester and I wonder if this is exactly the right thing to do. The nets tied on the goal posts are hired from a very benevolent person who understands the worth of football. In return, he only gets the players appreciation because he doesn’t need any payment from them, even if the players were willing to.
I am always sad seeing a single coach manage both boys and girls in a given sport while others don’t have a coach at all. Being a coach isn’t so easy and the institution should provide him with the necessary training equipment, not that he has to buy his own and ferry them with him whenever he comes for the sessions. The only thing he is to provide is the technical know-how!
Let’s make Maasai Mara University a better place just as it is in academics. Co-curricular activities blended with academics can take MMARAU to greater heights.
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