The inaugural Abuja Inter-Secondary Educational facilities Athletics Championship (AISSAC) will maintain at MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja, on June 4, the organisers have explained.
The event, a boys and ladies athletic championship, which will feature 14 secondary universities in Abuja, is open up for university student athletes, who ought to not be more mature than 18 yrs.
The handling spouse of KIO Seek the advice of, Kesiena Oghoghorie, who is facilitating the championship, stated AISSAC is created to be the breeding ground for Nigerian athletes, alongside the line of Jamaica’s Inter-Secondary Schools Boys and Ladies Championship that generated the likes of Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, among the some others.
Oghoghorie, a previous captain of College of Kent Athletics crew, mentioned the championship, which will be organised in conjunction with the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), will equip the youths with lifestyle challenges and develop their own, interpersonal skills and talents.
The championship will be organised in accordance to Earth Athletics criteria, introducing that setting up blocks would be furnished for college student athletes to start out receiving them acquainted with what is available at the international athletics amount.
The occasions on the schedule include things like, 100m, 200m, 400m, 4 x 100m Relay, 4 x 400m Relay, 4 x 400m (Mixed Relay), Long Jump and Javelin.
Oghoghorie mentioned he was inspired to address the enormous drop in school athletics level of competition in Nigeria, which has adversely afflicted the country’s general performance at the world-wide degree.
He extra that AISSAC would rekindle athletics interest in the state, as perfectly as continue to keep the youths engaged with a watch to deterring them from participating in social vices.
“School sports activities are the bedrock of any sporting activities enhancement programme in any nation. Nigeria, throughout its glory times of athletics, experienced a quite robust and vivid school athletics program. There was, for case in point, the Empire Working day competition in the colonial period, the Grier Cup Opposition in the Western Provinces in 1933, the Fisher Protect in the East and the Hussey Protect athletics levels of competition amongst groups symbolizing the educational facilities in the North and South of Nigeria, between some others,” Oghoghorie mentioned.
He stated the many school athletics competitions at the time contributed to Nigeria’s success at global athletics level, as most of the university student athletes at the faculty competitions sooner or later went on
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