ATHLETICS: Brightville Wins Ibadan ‘Best Of The Best’ Relay Race

The representatives of the Brightville College have emerged winners at the Ibadan Best of the Best relay race held at the New Sport Stadium, University of Ibadan defeating Command secondary school Ibadan that won it last year.

The school came victorious at both male and female categories of the competition defeating their counterparts from Abadina Grammar School, UI, Best Brain College, Idi-Ape, Command Secondary School, Apata and Deril Academy, Gbagi who are classed as the best in school’s relay race in Oyo State.

The event was part of activities lined up to celebrate 7th Inter-House Sports Competition of the school, held on Tuesday, 7th March, 2017. The occasion also witnessed inauguration of Brightville-Gold Football Academy, playing in a testimonial match, the first official match with Difference Football Academy, Ile-Ife.

In a chat with journalists shortly after the event, the school Proprietor, Dr. Isaac Friday Ogada noted that the idea of Best of the Best Relay Race was conceived 8 years ago to evaluate how schools’ athletes are improving.

According to him, “I noticed that the way they run invitation relay race nowadays is not the way it is used to be in those days, in those days, invitation relay race is an avenue to detect athletes and put them into national team. But now, some invitation relay races are being done just for the fun of it. So I decided that some of those schools that have good record in relay race would come together, then we pick best out of them and our school will compete with them. It has been on every year because that is a platform to invite some of the best schools as far as relay race is concern. It is also an avenue to for us to strengthen our athletic team with those great schools.”

“It was a wonderful event, as you can see every aspect of the event was very competitive, enjoyable and interesting. The houses competed in various events; you could as well see the testimonial match, where a display of football artistry was made. You could also see the students displayed character, zeal, determination and talent too.”

He, therefore, advised parents to always support and encourages their children to participate in sports, especially the talented ones because it might be an avenue for them to make it in life.