UG Sports News

The University of Ghana Swim Coach Mr. Daniel Opare Okyere will coach the Ghana Swim Team at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. The National Swim Team will commence their camping in Tokyo from 2nd July ahead of the Games in Tokyo. The Olympic Games will start from 23rd July to 8th August, 2021.

Mr. Abeiku Jackson and Miss Unilez Takyi who will represent Ghana at the Olympic Games qualified through the universality slots based on the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) point accumulated by the swimmers in 2021.

The Sports Directorate will run the fourth edition of the summer camp from 5th July to 6th September, 2021 on weekdays from 9 am to 3:30 pm at the Sports Directorate. The activities for the camp include Cycling, Football, Swimming and Tennis.

The summer camp is opened to all children and youth between the ages of 5 to 17 years.

The Need for the Camp and Recreation

The University of Ghana (UG) male Football team has won the maiden Triangular Football Games hosted by the University of Cape Coast from Tuesday, 8th to Saturday, 12th June, 2021.

Dr. Twum Boafo, an alumnus of the University of Ghana (UG) has donated Tennis equipment to the University of Ghana Sports Directorate. The items included racquets, balls and sneakers.

The University of Ghana male Football team will participate in the maiden Triangular Football Games from Tuesday, 8th to Sunday, 13th June, 2021 at the University of Cape Coast. This will be the first competition for the team after the 2020 GUSA Games as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Participating Institutions and Rationale

The participating universities are University of Cape Coast as the host, University of Ghana, Legon and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi.

Grace Obour, a level 200 student of the Physical Education and Sports Studies Department at the University of Ghana continued the impressive run of lifting the banner of the University high when she was crowned the fastest 100m runner at Ghana’s Fastest Human at Kumasi on Saturday, 15th May, 2021.

Back to Back Win for UG

The Sports Directorate in a short ceremony on Wednesday, 28th April, 20201 at the Conference Room of the Sports Directorate awarded trophies to Halls who participated in the 2019/2020 Inter-Halls Cricket competition before the semester was truncated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He keeps shattering records wherever he goes. He has become the torchbearer for many young student athletes at the University of Ghana (UG) and Ghana as a whole. He epitomizes perseverance, the strength of mind, body and soul. Benjamin Azamati, a former student of UG has broken the 22-year old national 100m record in the United States of America during the Texas Relay with a time of 9.97 seconds (1.5 m/s). He is a clear manifestation of the fruits of silent and patient investment of the Sports Directorate of the University of Ghana

The University of Ghana’s Director of Sports, Dr. Bella Bello Bitugu has again made UG and himself proud by becoming one of the newest members of the Ghana Olympic Executive Committee. Dr Bitugu has achieved this feat of being elected to the highest executive body of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) within a matter of one year. Last year, Ghana Universities Sports Association (GUSA) nominated him to represent GUSA at the GOC board of governors.

The fastest University Athlete on the continent in the 2019 All African University Olympics in Cairo (representing UG), Benjamin Azamati, an alumnus of University of Ghana and the fastest local athlete based in Ghana until moving to the United States of America to further his education in January 2020 broke yet another record in The Lone Star Conference™ (LSC) Meet. He run a time of 6.62 in 60 meters and 20.97 in 200 meters.