7Great Princes school to hold sports festival

The Seven Great Princes Academy schools in Dansoman and Lartebiorkorshie will hold a four day sports festival at the El-Wak Sports Stadium and the Dansoman branch of the school.

The competition will be held on February 6-9.

Participants will compete in five disciplines, namely Fill-in-the-bottle, spoon and lime, sack race, tug-of-war, musical chairs, table tennis, basketball and Scrabble.

The competition will, however, start at the El-Wak Sports Stadium with football and athletics featuring boys and girls soccer competition while athletes compete in 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 4x100m and 4x400m races.

Mr Theophilus Armah, Director of sports at the school, explained that basketball and table tennis will also feature prominently at the Dansoman campus of the school.

Accordig to him, “We are looking at starting the year with sports to make the students fit and healthy.”

Through that, he hoped talents would be fished out for the national cause.
He added that the event will also be an occasion to celebrate the upcoming African Games to be hosted by Ghana in March.

“Awards , trophies, and certificates will be awarded to deserving winners,” he stated.

The competition which is an annual event will see El-Wak Stadium hosting the first two days , while the Dansoman branch of the school hosts the remaining two days.