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fewer than 120 boys and girls from 12 different basketball academies on
Wednesday emerged after a screening exercise to take part in the U-17
Lagos State Grassroots Basketball Championships.
The Technical Director, Lagos State Basketball Association Gbade Olatona, told the News Agency of Nigeria that the competition was in preparation for the National Youth Games, scheduled to run from December 5 to December 15 in Abuja.
Olatona said that the 3-day competition
would end on August 30 with a coaching course for the basketball academy
coaches at the Mobolaji Sports Complex, Yaba.
“We are organising a tournament for our
basketball academies that have been training since July, especially
those still within the U-17 bracket. These players will once again have a
chance to showcase their talents and a chance to be seen by our
technical crew, expected to take note of them. The essence of the
tournament is to build in our players, a competitive mind-set and also
make them to vie for jerseys during the final selection for the youth
Games,” Olatona said.
He said that there would be a coaching course for the academy coaches, whose players featured in the competition.
“We will have Prof. Omo Osagie, a sports consultant during the game, to come and oversee the training by the grassroots coaches.
“We need to update our grassroots coaches with new techniques and skills in the game.”
The academies to feature at the
competition are: the Zion, Deep Bond, Dell, Adopt A Talent, 43 Nigeria,
Deepbond A, Warlord, Rookies and Deepbond B for boys.
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