Meet Alex Njue,
the Rugby
Player
By Pauline Kariuki
23 year old Alex Njue is a rugby player. The 97
is why there is always some
Kilograms player plays for the Mean Machine club of
period between games to allow
the University of Nairobi, where he is also a fourth
the players train,” he says.
year student of Development Communications.
Apart from keeping him fit,
“I am also a sports journalist at Media Max and a
rugby has earned Njue and his
blogger. Ooh and I am a passionate photographer,”
fellow team mates scholarships
he stated.
at the University Of Nairobi
Njue who was born and bred in Mombasa says that
growing up he enjoyed sports often taking part in
swimming and football .
He started playing rugby at Hamisi High School,
where he was voted assistant captain of the rugby
team.
where he is the secretary
general of sports in the
Students Organization.
“I like the game; it is a
game of discipline. No one
is a star like in football. It’s
also a game of friendship
Even then, he would often admire the Mean
in fact, if a guy of another
Machine. He would watch them playing on TV and
club has an issue we come
read about them in newspapers and hoped he would
together raise some money
one day play for them.
and assist him,” he says.
“I had a sports shirt with a badge of Mean Machine
Alex identifies three
on it. I often looked at the magazines and said that
requirements for one to
that was the team I wanted to play for some day. I
become a rugby player:
was inspired by Victor Sudi,” he says.
clear thinking, fitness
and discipline.
After high school, he moved to Nairobi in 2011 to
join the rugby club to play and earn an income. He
“Rugby is not about
played for three clubs including the national team for
force, energy or
under 19 before finally joining the Mean Machine in
power, it is about
2013.
thinking of on how
to win and beat your
“Rugby is not as dangerous as it appears,” he says,
opponent. Before
“But if you are not fit you are not good to play. That
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Photo courtesy from Alex Njue’s Album
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