Greensprings School Lagos emerged overall champions of the recently concluded Private School Games for U-11 pupils.
The Games meant for private schools in Lagos and environs featured football, swimming, athletics and video games.
Greensprings showed superiority against strong opposition from Lagos Preparatory School, Corona School and St Saviour’s School in the games held from May 23- 25, 2023. Greensprings topped the medals table with 11 Gold, 6 Silver and 6 Bronze medals.
Managing director of the School Games, Adeyemi Egbeoluwa applauded Greensprings and other Private Schools for showing discipline and friendship while vying for honors at Union Bank Sports ground, National Stadium O’Jez swimming pool Lagos and Yaba Tech play ground.
Egbeoluwa described the games as a huge success while revealing plans for a bigger and more fascinating U-16 games (Private Secondary Schools) in Lagos in the next few weeks.
While thanking sponsors including Just Right, Ridgewell Construction Limited, Chicken Republic and others committed to Private School sports development, Egbeoluwa appealed to the Government and corporate world to support School Sports Development as true sporting talents who could be world beaters abound there.
“It is obvious that quality athletes would emerge with efficient and meticulous combination of quality education and sports if Government and the corporate world does not turn her back on private school sports programmes.
” Worries over age cheat and poor results at International meets would be a thing of the past if sports programs are fully backed morally and financialy by the Government, the corporate world and sports loving individuals and groups”.
“It is our resolve at School Games that hidden talent must be continuously discovered and nurtured through programs like ours and there is no looking back”,
Egbeoluwa listed top private schools like Greenspirngs, Corona, Riverbank, Lagos preparatory school and St Saviour’s among schools ready for the forth coming under 16 private secondary school games.
