Opening Ceremony
Ayenyah girls’ volleyball team (Beauty Adzamli, Evelyn Davor, Patience Agyei, Edinam Mensah, Felicia Amenyo, Lydia Ahiadzi, Gladys Adzamli, Lydia Adzamli, Akos Dzidienyo, Mercy Amuzu, Cynthia Amenyo), who participated as representatives of the Dangme west district team, won the championship out of 17 district teams in the Inter-District/Sub Metro Basic Schools Sports Festival in the Greater Accra regional competition that took place between Friday, 30th July and Monday, 2nd August in Ada-Sege.
The proud Ayenyah girls’ volleyball team with their coaches
Moreover, six of these players will participate in the Inter-Regional Basic Sports Festival as representatives of the Greater Accra Regional team of volleyball between August 29th and September 4th in Wa in the Upper West region.
One of the girls who was trained through the Laureus program was offered a scholarship at the Tema Senior High School so that she can continue her studies with a focus on sport.
Ayenyah girls’ volleyball team with Dangme district girls players after their victory
The Ayenyah girls have made the community very proud!
Seenigama Sport for Life project
This post originally appeared on www.unconditionalcompassion.org. The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has been supporting the Seenigama Sport for Life project since the tsunami destroyed the coast of Sri Lanka in 2004. Sport was used as a way of bringing people back together to rebuild their communities and give hope to those who had lost everything. Today the project uses sport to tackle issues of rural underdevelopment and to promote life skills of 1400 young people a year.
Ralf Schumacher
Ralf Schumacher scored his first points of the season and finished sixth in the latest round of the DTM touring car championship on the Nuerburgring in Germany.
Hello Laureus Blog readers,
Just like in previous years the Triathlon in Hamburg showed why it has become one of the most prestigious Triathlons in the World. I was impressed when I saw a sea of people around the proven circuit through the city of Hamburg. It created a spectacular atmosphere which certainly left an impression on every single one of us almost nine thousand athletes.
Last week, Richie McCaw passed my record of test wins as an All Black, and with 48 matches as captain he is fast approaching my record of 51 tests as skipper. All being well, he’ll have overhauled me before the end of the year.
People have been asking me how I feel about Richie beating my records; and I can tell you that I am delighted for him. If you’re going to relinquish a record, it might as well be to a guy who has got an 88% win rate, who is the perfect embodiment of what All Black rugby is about, and who in his career so far has won international newcomer of the year, New Zealand player of the year twice, and IRB player of the year a couple of times too. He is, no doubt, a class act.
