{"id":100520,"date":"2026-04-07T14:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ncs-adopts-clustered-model-for-team-namibia-selection"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:31:24","slug":"ncs-adopts-clustered-model-for-team-namibia-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/ncs-adopts-clustered-model-for-team-namibia-selection","title":{"rendered":"NCS Adopts Clustered Model for Team Namibia Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>The Namibia Sports Commission (NSC) held a press conference on the fourth edition of the National Youth Games last Thursday in Windhoek.<\/p>\n<p>The National Youth Games serve as a platform to identify and select the Namibian team across 11 sport codes that will compete at the African Union Sport Council Region 5 Youth Games (AUSC Region 5) in Maputo, Mozambique this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Games will deliver selection opportunities in athletics (including para-athletics and wheelchair racing), Special Olympics, basketball, boxing, football, judo, karate, netball, swimming, tennis, table tennis and volleyball through regional and sport-specific trials and championships scheduled for May this year.<\/p>\n<p>According NSC Chief Administrator, Freddy Mwiya, N$3 million will be made available for both the National Youth Games and team Namibia\u2019s participation at the AUSC Region 5 Games in Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>To select the team within the available budget, the commission has adopted a clustered competition model that reduces large-scale centralised hosting while maintaining a fair and transparent process.<\/p>\n<p>The new model groups sport codes and regions into manageable competition hubs, reducing travel, accommodation and venue costs while enabling federations to run sport-specific trials to nominate athletes for the Namibian team.<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball and basketball will use regional quotas across three competition zones, while aquatics selections will be based on national championship results and long-course season performances.<\/p>\n<p>Boxing will hold formal trials to determine finalists, with quotas for both male and female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Special Olympics athletes will be selected during the national championships in Swakopmund in May, while other sports such as judo, tennis, table tennis, U\/17 football, athletics, and para-athletics will hold trials across various regions, including Khomas, Windhoek, and Swakopmund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFailure to send a team to the AUSC Region 5 Youth Games will expose Namibia to fines and have negative repercussions for our country\u2019s standing in regional sport,\u201d said Mwiya.<\/p>\n<p>Mwiya further appealed to corporate partners, philanthropists and the public to support Team Namibia, with contributions set to directly cover travel, accreditation and competition costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission has committed to transparent and accountable processes for managing sponsorships and donations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Namibia<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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