National league champions Ulinzi will take part in revived Kericho Open Handball Championships at Kericho Tea Boys High School on February 9-10.
Others teams expected in the two-day tournament, which was last hosted at the same venue in 2003, are National Cereals and Produce Board, National Youth Service and Strathmore University.
The rest are Kabarak, Mount Kenya, Egerton and Kabianga Universities and Ng’oranga Club.
“We need to diversify the discipline from athletics and football, hence the need to revive the tournament and ensure it gets incorporated in the Kenya Handball Association calendar of events,” said the tournaments' patron Magerer Langat.
Junior teams that have confirmed participation are Dynamics from Kericho, Rift Valley Institute of Science and Technology (RVIST), Eldoret Polytechnique, Kericho Teachers Training College, Bureti Technical Institute, Taniak from Nandi and RVIST Kericho Campus.
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Sang’ said they expect 15 senior clubs and more than 20 junior teams. “We expect more teams to have registered by the end of next weekend and we urge them to do so in good time for logistical reasons,” he said.
The junior teams who most of them are primary and secondary schools will pay a participation fee of Sh2000 while the senior teams will pay Sh3000.
Kenya Handball Association Kericho Sub Branch chairman Willy Rop said the tournament is meant to tap talents at the grassroots and bring cohesion between different institutions from different parts of the country.
