Youth Games Fallout: Ikoyi Club Hosts Victorious Swimmers

It was a nighttime of pride, promise, and applause astatine Ikoyi Club 1938 implicit the play arsenic young swimmers were celebrated for their accomplishments astatine the precocious concluded National Youth Games successful Asaba, Delta State.

The reception, held astatine the club’s swimming section, brought unneurotic parents, household members, friends, and dignitaries, including Ikoyi Club Chairman Akinwunmi Akintola, Director of Sports astatine the Lagos State Sports Commission Mr. Nunayon Olumide Travih (representing the Director General of the Lagos State Sports Commission), and the Chairman of the Swimming Section and mentor to galore of the athletes, Mr. Akinbulejo Onabolu.

Although the athletes officially represented assorted states, including Ogun and Osun, they each bid astatine Ikoyi Club, which has softly go Nigeria’s astir accordant endowment mill successful swimming.

The victorious squad included Tireniolu Nedd, Folarin Azeez, Temidayo Adenubi, Imran Adenusi, Olutise Nedd, Maryam Muhammed, Aidan Dumuje-Abili, Tofunmi Ibidapo, and Timilehin Olaiya for Lagos State; Beatrice Ward for Osun; Omotara Erinle for Ogun; and Lucky Deekor David and Lucky-Deekor Barivure for Rivers State.

Their corporate efforts secured Lagos a commanding victory, underscoring the state’s dominance successful grassroots swimming and its increasing estimation arsenic a breeding crushed for nationalist talent.

In his remarks, Mr. Travih praised the swimmers for their subject and resilience, portion commending parents for entrusting their children to correspond Lagos.

He besides announced a caller concern betwixt the Lagos State Sports Commission and the swimming conception of Ikoyi Club to supply much structured grooming and platforms for the athletes to vie internationally.

“This accomplishment is conscionable the beginning,” Travih stated. “We are committed to giving these young champions a level to radiance globally.”

For galore successful attendance, the lawsuit was not conscionable astir trophies but astir nurturing Nigeria’s adjacent procreation of swimmers.

Onabolu, president of the section, noted that the team’s occurrence reflected months of hard work, discipline, and sacrifice from the swimmers, coaches, sports sub-committee, and the parents.

“With their triumph successful Asaba and renewed organization backing, these young swimmers are present seen arsenic much than Youth Games champions; they correspond Nigeria’s aboriginal successful competitive