No fewer than 162 secondary schools will present athletes for this year’s Lagos State Sports Festival, tagged Ibile Games 2014, which kicks off on April 30 and ends on May 10.
According to the Technical Sub-Committee of the Games MOC, 112 public schools, 35 private schools, nine missionary schools and six military/para military schools have so far registered in the Junior Category.
Entries by sports show that athletics has 129 school entries, boxing has 33, table tennis has 104, while basketball has 53, among the other sports.
However, preparation for the games is in top gear as the school with the highest number of sports entries, Eletu Odibo Senior High School, Abule Oja, Yaba, already boasting that they are going to the games to come out tops.
This was the submission of their Games Master, Luqman Adeigbe.
According to Adeigbe, Eletu Odibo Senior High School can boast of athletes who have represented Lagos State.
He said: “Our students won medals for Lagos at the National Schools Sports Festival in Port Harcourt and Ilorin respectively.
“We produced champions in Table Tennis in the boys and girls’ categories for Mainland division, while five of our students are playing for Yaba Local Council Development Area, in the Lagos Junior League.
“We have good credentials going to Ibile Games this year and nothing short of overall prize is expected of my athletes.”
Adeigbe was a Lagos State boxer at the Oluyole ’79 National Sports Festival.
For the Technical Director of Lagos State Basketball Association, Gbade Latona, the large number of entries in basketball will afford the state the opportunity to select a strong team to be presented at the DAWN Games 2014 coming up in May, the National School Sports Festival, National Youth Games and the National Sports Festival in Cross River State, which all come up later this year.
Latona said: “The expectation is high, especially for the numbers of schools that registered for Basketball.
“We are full of expectation to see great skills from these secondary schools like International School, Lagos and Ilupeju Grammar School.
“There is no doubt that Basketball will be keenly contested at Ibile Games this year.”
The secondary schools will compete in the junior category of the Games while the Local Governments and Local Council Development Areas will compete in the Senior/Open Category.
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