St Anthony’s Boys Kitale hockey forward Peter Wachira. [Washington Onyango, Standard]
For decades, the ground at St Anthony’s Boys Senior School Kitale has been an incubator for hockey legends.
However, echoes of missing trophies have haunted the corridors of East Africa’s most successful schools’ boys hockey empire for years. Having endured three years of defeat at the national finals, St Anthony’s, christened Les Titans, finally broke their shackles in Kisumu this year to recapture the title they had last won in 2022.
In Kakamega last year, St Anthony’s came close but fell short after finishing second behind Uganda’s Kakungulu Memorial in the round-robin contest.
Now with just four days to the start of the 2026 regional games in Morogoro, Tanzania, the ultimate prize looms large in the horizon: the East Africa throne they last conquered in 2018.
As the most successful boys’ hockey team in the history of the Federation of East Africa Schools Sports Association (FEASSA) games, St Anthony’s boasts unrivaled pedigree.
With a cabinet trophy rich with six East Africa gongs, they have set the gold standard for schools’ hockey despite the agonizing five years that the title has eluded them.