The Swift Road to Paris…Eyes on the Gold!

(The Ag. Corporate Affairs & Marketing Manager, Mr. Alex Mutuku (R) hands a hoodie to Odongo. Alongside is the Sports & Recreation Officer, Mr. Maurice Masiga)

By Alex Mutuku

The Olympics is the highest pinnacle of the sporting career of any athlete. Patrick Odongo, alias, ‘Odoche’, left the country on Monday 8^th 2024 under the auspices of the Kenya Shujaa, the Kenya National Mens’ team for Rugby 7s.

In September 2023, Patrick Odongo, a Daystar Rugby Falcons team member, pushed two of three goals that saw Kenya Rugby 7s team, Shujaa clinch the Africa title, in a contested final match against South Africas’ Springboks, in September 2023 in Zimbabwe. Attainment of this feat would make Shujaa qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics beginning on 26^th July, 2024.

Odongo is a Community Development major in the School of Applied Human Sciences. In the field, he is a winger, dotting number ’11 as the speedy man of the team. As a Shujaa, he aims to contribute to the delivery of the gold medal or at least be in the gold bracket of the tournament.