Kirsty Coventry Named the Sports Minister!
By Perkins Bare Kirsty Coventry has been appointed the new Minister of Sports, Arts and Youth in a move that could possibly change Zimbabwean Sports for the good. The 34-year old Olympiad has been named in a new cabinet announced by His Excellency CDE ED Mnangagwa at the State House later this afternoon, Hon Kirsty was named new Minister of Sports Arts and Youths. The main reason why this was a formidable appointment in my view is because Kirsty Coventry is someone who is already on the ground getting her hands dirty and this is just but a title for she has been working to try and bring change already. She is a member of the ANOCA Athlete's Commission, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee and provides coaching and swimming lessons at her non-profit organization, the Kirsty Coventry Academy, and has recently launched a program for low-income and underserved areas - HEROES: Empowering children through sport. Heroes is a community-based program that was launche