WOMEN’S TOURNEY FIRST IN SHOOTING

MBABANE – Ladies shottists will be first to take centre stage when shooting action resumes.

The Eswatini Shooting Association (ESA) will celebrate bouncing back to action after four months in the wilderness due to the partial lockdown after the COVID-19 outbreak by hosting first the Women’s tournament. ESA is among the 11 sporting associations that were allowed to resume as from today by the government through Prime Minister Mandvulo Dlamini. ESA President Sipho Ntshalintshali said they will not waste time but to meet an as an executive and come up with a tentative calendar.

“We are going to resume action with the Women’s tournament as it was postponed indefinitely when sports were suspended in the country mid-March. We are hopeful that out meeting will be this week and then give out the dates of the coming tournaments. Our players must be ready because we are going to hosts an open tournament to gauge the standard of every player after the partial lockdown,” he said. Ntshalintshali said as an association, they are ready to follow all the safety guidelines put forward by the government and the World Health Organisation (WHO). He said they will do all their best to make sure that they play in a safe environment.

Basics

He said they already have some of the basics including sanitizers and the practise of social distance. “Now that we have been given the green light it does not means teams and people should do whatever in the name of the sport. They have to make sure that they adhere to all the safety measures. We will be monitoring the clubs even at their training centres as we want all people to be safe,” he added. Ntshalintshali said they will also be seeking for more sponsors as there are going to be financial challenges. He then thanked the government, Ministry of Sports, Culture and Youth Affairs through to the Eswatini Sport and Recreation Council (ESRC) for their continued support.

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