For the 10th time in as many editions, St. Jude’s Girls Secondary School, Amarata,
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State has qualified for the finals of the 23rd Milo Secondary Schools Basketball Championship.
The school has dominated the championship since 2010 and emerged winners seven times in the last eight years.
At the Atlantic Conference in Asaba recently, where St. Jude’s Girls defeated Dom-
Domingos College Warri, Delta State by 14 points to 12 points to secure their place in the finals.
“We have been working so hard back in Bayelsa to build this team for the last two years,” confessed coach Tony Nelson. “Although we won the conference, we believe there are a lot of things we need to put together to get to the national standard.
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“That is what we will do when we go back home,” he added.
In the boys’ category, Urhobo Model College, Effurun, Delta State triumphed over the boys from Bishop Dimieari Grammar School, Ovom, Bayelsa State by 28 points to 24 points.
St. Jude’s Girls Secondary School, Amarata, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and Urhobo Model College, Effurun, Delta State will represent the Atlantic Conference at the national finals of the 23rd MILO Basketball Championship in Lagos in July.
Other teams who will be in Lagos for the national finals are winners from the Savannah, Central Conference and Western Conferences.
Category Manager for Beverages, Nestlé Nigeria, Olutayo Olatunji, reiterated Nestle’s commitment to developing talents, promoting healthier lifestyles, and instilling values for success in life through sports.
The Milo Basketball Championship has grown tremendously from about 500 schools at its commencement in 1999. It now reaches over 150,000 individual players from over 10,000 schools across Nigeria every year.