A total of 36 young basketball players have been selected
for scholarships to further their education in the United States after being
discovered at the just concluded Ejike Ugboaja Foundation's basketball camp.
The 10th anniversary edition of the foundation’s clinic
which has 768 young male and female basketball
and American football players, about 20 coaches and coordinators from
various parts of the country in attendance was held at the Sir Chief (Dr)
Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor multipurpose sports hall of the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere in Lagos, sportsbiz247.blogspot.com reports.
The young basketball players 24 male and 12 female will
be admitted to 12 universities in America who are in partnership with
Ejike Ugboaja Foundation including George Town University, University of Miami, Syracuse
University, University of Southern California, University of Georgia, Alabama
University among others in the United States.
Other benefit that comes along during the annual Camp
also includes playing kits like Balls, Canvases and T- Shirts.
Nigeria international basketball star, Ejike Ugboaja, the
founder, said that the scholarship would enable the players continue the game
of basketball abroad.
"I am poised to see to the growth of basketball in
the country and much more the welfare of the players by making sure their
career is on sound footing and as well giving them a glorious opportunity to
also further their studies. Seeing education as a necessity and an essentials
of life, for which reason I am brokering scholarship opportunities for young basket
ball and American Football players to have these necessities of life,"
said Ugboaja, who is also the president of Basketball Players Association of
Nigeria, BAPAN.
Ugboaja also spared some thoughts for the physically
challenge wheel chair basket ballplayers, who he promised to get them foreign
clubs to ply their trade professionally.
"Discussions are ongoing with foreign basket clubs
who also have rooms for the physically challenge by the virtue of their
participation in the wheel chair basketball league,” he said.
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