For six years volleyball has played second fiddle to track and field during the Safaricom Sports Personality of the Year Awards gala.The script may still be the same and only the characters may have changed, but this time round it is Prackcides Agala who stands out as the lone wolf in a pack of coronated athletes as they fight on who will be named the 2010 Female Safaricom Sports Personality of the Year.Track and field have reigned supreme in all the previous contests and the panel of judges’ decision to have the four runners in the top five finalists attest to the dominance of athletics during the 2010 season.
The only exception is Kenya Prisons and national women’s volleyball team captain, Agala. Her role as the captain of the two most successful teams in Kenya and Africa is unmatched.“She is unique. She represents a team sport while the other four are from individual sports. As a leader, she has a lot on her shoulders and that is a bonus for her. But it is an open contest and the judges will do their best to name the best of the season,” said Simon Chebon, the Soya panel of judges secretary.Agala will next week captain Prisons to the World Club Championships in Doha and that performance will be viewed in the 2011 awards.
In May this year, she led the wardresses to victory in the African Volleyball Club Championships in Mauritius which capable them for the World Club Championship in Qatar from December 15 to 22.“That is quite an enviable credit capable of giving the globe-trotting athletes a run for their money in their quest to wrest the women’s award,” said Chebon.Agala must be alive to the hazard she faces as she comes up against a star-studded field that includes Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Jebet Lagat, World 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot, Milka Chemos and Irene Cherotich Kosgei, the Common wealth Games marathon champion.
The only exception is Kenya Prisons and national women’s volleyball team captain, Agala. Her role as the captain of the two most successful teams in Kenya and Africa is unmatched.“She is unique. She represents a team sport while the other four are from individual sports. As a leader, she has a lot on her shoulders and that is a bonus for her. But it is an open contest and the judges will do their best to name the best of the season,” said Simon Chebon, the Soya panel of judges secretary.Agala will next week captain Prisons to the World Club Championships in Doha and that performance will be viewed in the 2011 awards.
In May this year, she led the wardresses to victory in the African Volleyball Club Championships in Mauritius which capable them for the World Club Championship in Qatar from December 15 to 22.“That is quite an enviable credit capable of giving the globe-trotting athletes a run for their money in their quest to wrest the women’s award,” said Chebon.Agala must be alive to the hazard she faces as she comes up against a star-studded field that includes Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Jebet Lagat, World 5,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot, Milka Chemos and Irene Cherotich Kosgei, the Common wealth Games marathon champion.
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