Kedogo is a basketball evangelist. Not because, or maybe despite that, she is also a pastor, but chiefly because she spreads the good news of the inclusion of girls in sports specifically basketball. “I purposed to start the team specifically for the underprivileged girls who do not otherwise get space in big clubs so that we can grow together.”

If Kedogo could live by a code, it would be: let the girls play. Her team Dream Girls has been in the NBA—before you ask, NBA here stands for Nairobi Basketball Association and now moving to the Kenya National Basketball League.

She’s been involved in basketball for the last twelve years, first as an assistant coach at the Eagle Wings Basketball. Later on, she spread her wings to go coach the junior national team, and the senior national team five-on-five. Kedogo also coaches the Kenya national women’s 3 x 3 team which is her current obsession.

Kedogo is hopeful that the Basketball Experience will equip her with skills especially to interact with younger players. “This will equip me in the sense that I need to work with kids more and understand them. It is a new generation, they are doing different things, and they are also learning on their own. I hope to learn how the game has evolved from what I have practiced for ages”

She looks forward to going back to her community in Kitengela Kenya, to start a team with fairly young players. “I want to get kids in my community to bring them together and teach them the game so they can use it to excel in life.”

At the end of the Basketball Experience in Kenya, what would success look like to her? “I want to see that the kids have grown from not knowing the game to playing it and playing it better.”

To Kedogo, basketball is life and she wants to be part of the Basketball Experience to have the first-row seat of this transformative journey.