Kenyan women's football poster girl Jentrix Shikangwa is set to join Turkish top tier side Fatih Karagümrük Sportif Faaliyetler San. Tic. A.S. Division.
Jentrix has been playing for the three-time Kenyan champions Vihiga Queens. She is set to leave the country on Sunday, January 23.
Her move comes barely days after the club's first choice goalkeeper Lilian Awuor signed with French side ASJ Soyaux Charente.
"We hope that more of these interests will develop into opportunities for our girls to go forth and conquer the football world. As Vihiga Queens, we shall forever be grateful to Jentrix for her services to our club especially during the CAF WCL CECAFA Zone Qualifiers where she emerged as the tournament's Most Valuable Player (MVP) and scored our winning goal in the finals from the penalty spot," the statement by Vihiga read.
Since breaking to the limelight following her heroics in the 2019 edition of the CECAFA Championships where her brace in the final saw Starlets wrestle the title from the hands of Tanzania, the winger has never looked back as her football career has been on an upward trajectory.
It is in the same year that she was voted as the Most Promising Player by the SOYA panellists. The performance in the regional tournament where she netted ten goals earned herself a name.
When she was a student at the Wiyeta Girls it is understood that agents started milling around the Queens camp in a bid to sign her into their respective agencies.
Before making her debut in the national team in 2018 where she played her first match at the age of 16 against Ethiopia, the left footed attacker had starred in Primary and Secondary School games.
She clinched the 'Golden Boot' in the primary school games in 2015 and 2016 and went on to take the secondary school games by storm as she inspired Wiyeta to claim both national and East Africa titles.
Despite having to strike a balance between studies and football, Shikangwa was always available for national team duties as she was involved in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifiers.
At the 2020 Olympics she netted the sole goal in the return game away to Ghana but was not enough to inspire the team to edge the West Africans who prevailed 3-2 on aggregate.
She has played a crucial role in helping Queens win the Kenyan Women's Premier League three times in a row.