Sports

SPORTS REPORT

Accra Girls’ Senior High School (AGISS), like many of the Ghana Educational Trust (GET) schools established by the First Republic under the leadership of the late Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. Whereas most of the GET schools have not been able to rise beyond where they started and largely remained unknown, the same cannot be said of Accra Girls’. The school has in its small way gained recognition far beyond the widest imagination through sports. The surprising aspect of the school was that the school did not even have sport rounds to train its athletes and always had to parasite on Achimota School facilities. Notwithstanding these setbacks, the then sports department encouraged and tasked every student to give off their maximum and through persistent training, the school was able to raise a team made up of crack athletes for both the track and field events. In this regard, AGISS can lay claim of placing Ghana on the international and national pedestal through athletics and games through the contribution of some illustrious products like Alice Anum (Baby Jet), Hannah Afriyie, Gladys Preko, Juliana Mensah, Frederica Clottey just to mention a few.

The school continues to hold high the enviable position set up by her past glorious athletes till today. Discipline reigns supreme among AGISS students during sporting competitions thus meriting the school the Best-Behaved School Trophy consistently during Inter-Schools athletic competitions.

Today, the school takes great pride in its thriving sports program, which offers a wide range of activities and opportunities for students of all ages and abilities.

AGISS offers a diverse range of the following sports programs both internally and externally:

• Inter-House Sports Festivals: organize once every year between the five houses in the school to know the best house in the school in terms of sporting activities and also enable the school to select players for external activities like inter-school and super zonal.

• Inter-School Sports Festivals: organize once every year by GASSA (Greater Accra School Sport Association – Zone 3)

• Super Zonal Sport Festivals (GASSA): it is a sport festival organized by GASSA where 1st and 2nd placed schools in the various disciplines from the zones compete to get the champions in the region.
• Invitational Tournaments. The school is sometimes invited by the region and NGO’S to partake in some sporting activities like soccer, basketball, handball etc.
• Friendly Match: This is where the school is invited by sister schools or vise versa to play friendly matches with them.

• Health Walks: the school sometimes part take in health walk which is sometime organize by the school or NGO’s
• Aerobics: organize every third Saturday of every month to help both teachers and students to improve and maintain physical fitness, because we believe that a sound mind lives in a healthy body.

Our school has a strong tradition of fielding competitive teams in the following various sporting disciplines:

• Basketball Team
• Football Team
• Handball Team
• Netball Team
• Volleyball Team
• Athletics Team
• Badminton Team
• Table Tennis Team

The school over the years have achieved remarkable success in various sports competitions these includes:

Our school’s sports program is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our management, staff, coaches and students. We continue to strive for excellence, promoting a culture of teamwork, sportsmanship, and fair play successful sports achievements!

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