Among the many firsts at February’s Marshall Islands Soccer Federation training camps in Springdale, Arkansas, was that one of the players met their birth mother for the first time since adoption and many other Marshallese met with old friends. The Federation’s General Secretary Matt Webb said: “We are incredibly pleased with the first tandem men’s […]
KAREN EARNSHAW Soccer is bubbling along in Majuro with Marshall Islands Soccer Federation officials pleased to let everyone know that Coach Bitamatang Keakea from Kiribati is on island. According to Soccer Federation officials: “He is returning to coach for MISF. He is working in Majuro Middle School and RES coaching soccer as well as SDA school. Alongside this, he […]
In what would be surprising to a person familiar only with the 1960s and 1970s dynamic between American Kwajalein and Marshallese Ebeye, the Kwajalein Jr/Sr High School is today represented by an all-Marshallese girls basketball team. In another milestone, this is the first Lady Spartans team to play in competition on Ebeye Island as girls […]
