The maiden edition of the Private Schools Sports Fiesta has been successfully launched in Accra at a lavish ceremony.
It came off at the Mensah Sarbah Hall football Park, at the University of Ghana, Legon on Friday.
The mega event, was conceived by Kaysports Ghana Limited and is being held in partnership with the Ghana National Council of Private Schools (GNACOPS), and Insurance firm GLICO.
Kaysports CEO Kwame Owusu-Ameyaw said, the event has come to stay, and believed that it would help unearth more talents for Ghana.
“Finally, we have set the ball rolling and, I am positive that great talents would be produced in various sporting disciplines within the next few years,” Mr Owusu-Ameyaw said at the event.
The sports fiesta would involve six sporting disciplines, soccer, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, athletics and taekwondo in a competition reservered for private schools in Ghana.
The Sports Fiesta, would commence in March during the annual national week celebrations of private schools in Ghana.
The competition will be held at the zonal, district, regional level across the country culminating in a grand national finale.
Speaking at the event, Executive Director of GNACOPS, Obenefo Nana Kwasi Gyetuah, said, his outfit is proud to be associating with the Sports Fiesta and tasked parents to allow their children engage in sports in a win-win situation.
Chairman for the occasion was entrepreneur and businessman Roland Akorsah who welcomed the idea of putting this Sports Fiesta together for private schools in Ghana.
In a prelude to the upcoming event, Vision Academy School of Pakyi, Kumasi, beat Sons of God School, Adawso-Tinkong 2-0 in the final to win an eight team football tournament organized to climax the launch.
