Imo SWAN Set To Hold Secondary Schools Table Tennis Championship

By Johnkennedy Uzoma, Owerri

The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria SWAN, Imo state Chapter is set to hold her maiden Secondary Schools Table Tennis Championship.

 The championship which holds on Saturday June 4th 2022 will take place at the Bashlyks Sports House & Events Centre, New Owerri.

In a statement issued Wednesday jointly signed by the Chairman local organizing committee, Sampson Orji and Secretary, Tunde Liadi, the body disclosed that the championship which is sponsored by Distinguished Senator Samuel Nnaemeka Anyanwu is aimed at discovering talents, rekindling healthy competition among schools and help to develop grassroots sports in the state. 

The committee recalled that SWAN, Imo state chapter as a critical sports stakeholder has been at the forefront of pushing and ensuring that sports and our athletes get the necessary, adequate and required attention both from the public and private sectors.

They attributed the delay in holding the inaugural edition to insecurity situation and the outbreak of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic disease that bedeviled the state in the recent past.

According to the statement Imo SWAN gas carefully and randomly selected some schools such as Government Secondary School, Owerri, Holy Ghost College, Owerri,  St’ Joseph Academy, Amaimo and Imperial Secondary School, Ubomiri situated at Ikeduru and Mbaitoli Local Government Areas for easy management.

The committee expressed hope that in the next edition, schools in the three Senatorial Zones that make up Imo state shall be involved.

They urge sports lovers, corporate bodies and well meaning sons and daughters of the state to partner with SWAN by promoting the competition so as to jointly resurrect the dying sporting activities in the schools and at the grassroots.