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Celebrated rugby referee, Peris Mukoko-Wanyaga does not think she has had her biggest accomplishment yet, despite having a long list of impressive ones.
To mention a few; in 2013 she became the first female in Kenya and third in Africa to become a certified World Rugby Licensed Educator; in 2014 she was nominated as one of the three leading Women Referees in Africa and in December that year, she was an assistant referee for the HSBC Women’s 7s Series in Dubai. And those barely scratch the surface.
Before all that, she was one of the members of Kenya’s first women’s national rugby team, yet rugby was not a path she thought she was going to take.
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