Tracy Naluwooza will captain Uganda on the 2026 All Africa Senior Badminton Championships scheduled for February 9–15 in Gaborone, Botswana. The skilled shuttler leads a 12-member Ugandan delegation formally flagged off by the Uganda Badminton Affiliation (UBA) along side the Nationwide Council of Sports activities (NCS).
Uganda will discipline 10 gamers 5 males and 5 girls competing in each singles and doubles occasions. Naluwooza described her appointment as a proud milestone, calling it her first time to captain a nationwide group and vowing that the squad is able to compete and signify the nation with pleasure.
The flag-off ceremony was officiated by NCS Assistant Basic Secretary Milton Chebet, alongside Senior Sports activities Officer Sarah Nankya and NCS liaison officer for badminton James Kasumba. Chebet urged the gamers to embrace self-discipline, arduous work, and patriotism as they compete on the continental stage.
The squad blends expertise and youth following adjustments from final 12 months’s group in Douala, Cameroon. Former captain Amos Muyanja and Augustus Owiny have retired, Kenneth Consolation Mwambu didn’t qualify, whereas girls’s star Husinah Kobugabe misses out via harm. Debutants Kuruthum Nalumansi and Nakajja Olivia have been referred to as up, with Nalumansi partnering Shamika Fadilah Mohammad Rafi in girls’s doubles.
There may be optimism across the males’s group, significantly younger abilities Arafat Kibirige Tendo, Akbar Oduka, and Denis Mukasa, all former World Junior Championship members. Uganda additionally carries confidence from the earlier version, the place Naluwooza and Fadilah gained bronze in girls’s doubles, and Fadilah added a bronze in girls’s singles.
Seventeen international locations will compete, with the most effective males’s and ladies’s groups qualifying for the 2026 BWF Thomas and Uber Cup Finals in Denmark. Uganda travels on Sunday aboard Ethiopian Airways underneath head coach Frank Muwuluzi.
Uganda Squad
Males:
Arafat Kibirige Tendo
Akbar Oduka
Lubega Muzafaru
Denis Mukasa
Reagan Michael Nsubuga
Girls:
Gladys Mbabazi
Tracy Naluwooza (Captain)
Shamika Fadilah Mohammad Rafi
Kuruthum Nalumansi
Nakajja Olivia
Officers:
Coach: Frank MuwuluziMedia Officer: Gonzaga Kakeeto
