NUGA Zone F preliminaries to begin March 15

 

The preliminaries for the 2013 Nigeria University Games Association  Zone F will begin on March 14 at the University of Lagos, the event’s coordinator, Mr Owoyemi Idowu, has said.

Idowu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday that the four-day preliminaries would be to select the athletes that would represent the zone at the games.

The coordinator said that the 15 events were scheduled to hold at the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife,  between

June 3 and  17.

Idowu, who is also the badminton coach of the Lagos State University, said that UNILAG was chosen because it had all the needed facilities for the qualifying series.

According to him, the preliminaries are essential to select the most talented athletes for the zone in the 15 approved events for the games.

He said that two universities would qualify for each of the 15 events at the preliminaries to represent the zone at the games.

“It is not an all-comers affair, the preliminaries will be used to select those that will represent the zone in NUGA proper,” he said.(punch)

He said that the increase in the number of universities in the country and the need to get the best teams that would represent the various zones for the games proper necessitated the preliminaries.

“Zone F performed well at the last edition of the games held at University of Benin with four gold medals in the group events, and many silver medals in individual events.”

“Our plan this time around is to improve on our previous performance at the Ife Games,” he said.(punch)