Joshua Mwesigwa
Senior Editor
For the third year running, King's College Budo's first XV has reached the Coca-Cola Schools' Rugby final, and once again, they've done it without the imported coaching budget that several Kampala schools openly flaunt.
What Budo has, instead, is an unbroken pipeline. The U14s play the U16s in practice fixtures every Saturday. By the time a boy is in S5, he has been tackled by older boys for three seasons running, and he has tackled younger boys for two. The institutional memory lives in the boys themselves.
It's a useful counter-example to the prevailing belief that sports excellence in Uganda requires foreign coaches and turfed pitches. Budo's pitch is grass. The first XV coach is an old boy who teaches Geography.