Aberdeen Shikoyi

Aberdeen Shikoyi

Player information
birthday	1985
place of birth	,
date of death	April 28, 2012
Place of death	Nairobi , Kenya
society
society	Career ended
position	Winger , Hakler
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
	Mwamba	()
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
2013	Kenya (7-a-side rugby)	()
2013	Kenya (rugby union)	()

Aberdeen Shikoyi (born 1985 ; died April 28, 2012 in Nairobi ) was a Kenyan rugby player .

life and career

After graduating from school, Shikoyi moved to the capital, Nairobi, where she began playing football in the Jericho district before a friend introduced her to rugby. Around 2007 she joined the Mwamba RFC , the only Kenyan women's rugby team that is also based in Nairobi. In addition to her sporting activities, she earned her living as a primary school teacher in the Eastleigh district .

Shikoyi was soon called up to the national team, with which she won the Elgon Cup , an annual duel between the national teams from Kenya and Uganda , in 2010 and 2011 . She was also successful in 7-a-side rugby . In qualifying for the 2013 World Cup, she and her team only lost in the final against the team from South Africa .

On April 21, 2012, she was seriously injured in the first leg of the Elgon Cup in a duel with her Ugandan opponent Christine Kizito . Before the end of the game, she was flown from Kampala to a hospital in Nairobi, where a vertebral fracture was diagnosed. She did not recover from an operation that was subsequently carried out; she died on April 28, 2012, a few hours after her team won the Elgon Cup in the second leg.

After Shikoyi's death, efforts were made to rename the women's Elgon Cup in her honor. Such a renaming has not yet taken place.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Obituary on osbke.com (English), accessed on July 5, 2017
2. ^ Obituary on bbc.com , accessed on July 5, 2017
3. ↑ obituary newvision.co.ug (Engl.) Called on July 5, 2017
4. ↑ Obituary on sport24.co.za , accessed on July 5, 2017