Kenya national rugby sevens team


The Kenya National Rugby Sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and the Commonwealth Games. They are currently one of the 15 "core teams" of the World Series, with a guaranteed place in all 10 events each season. Kenya recorded its first tournament win in the World Rugby Sevens Series after beating Fiji at the 2016 Singapore Sevens.
Kenya has also been successful in the Rugby World Cup Sevens, reaching the semifinals in 2009 and again in 2013.
The Kenya Sevens team is sometimes referred to by the Kenyan and international press as Shujaa, a Swahili word meaning courage, confidence, bravery, or heroism. The Kenya national rugby sevens team is one of the more successful sporting teams representing Kenya. They have won the men's Team of the Year category six times at the Kenyan Sports Personality of the Year Awards: 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2013, and 2016.

Honors

Kenya has competed in the World Series every year since the competition's inception in 1999–2000. Kenya's best season came in 2012–13 when they finished fifth in the Series. Collins Injera and Humphrey Kayange were both nominated for World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year in 2009, but lost to England's Ollie Phillips.

Tournament history

Summer Olympic Games

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Commonwealth Games

Africa Cup Sevens

Safari Sevens

Kenya has won the Safari Sevens ten times:

Current squad

Former squads

Squad for the 2017–18 Sevens Series
PlayerClub Team
Collins InjeraMwamba
Oscar OumaNakuru
Oscar Ayodi Homeboyz
Billy OdhiamboMwamba
William AmbakaQuins
Andrew AmondeKCB
Dennis OmbachiNondescripts
Samuel OliechImpala Saracens
Augustine LugonzoHomeboyz
Nelson OyooNakuru
Eden AgeroQuins
Jeffery OluochHomeboyz
Daniel SikutaKabras
Brian TangaKabras
Arthur OwiraKCB
Frank WanyamaQuins
Eric OmbasaOilers
Samuel NgetheOilers
Ian MinjireImpala Saracens

Player records

The following refers to statistics generated in the World Rugby Sevens Series. Players in bold are still active.
Collins Injera was briefly ranked the #1 player in the world in tries scored, until his try-scoring record was surpassed by England's Dan Norton.
No.PlayerTries
1Collins Injera279
2Humphrey Kayange159
3Willy Ambaka123

No.PlayerPoints
1Collins Injera1,443
2Lavin Asego1,026
3Humphrey Kayange799

No.PlayerMatches
1Collins Injera424
2Andrew Amonde358
3Humphrey Kayange331