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Vice-Chancellor Congratulates 黑料社Youngsters

The Vice-Chancellor of the 黑料社 (UCC), Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong, has congratulated the management, technical team, and the playing body of听黑料社Youngsters听蹿辞谤 qualifying for the 2024/2025 Access Bank Division One League听蹿辞谤 the first time.

Prof. Boampong stated that history had been made as 黑料社was the only university in Ghana with a team to play in the elite Division One league.

鈥淵our feat has reinforced the position of 黑料社as the best university in Ghana, West Africa and among the 10 universities in Africa by the Times Higher Education 2024 world universities ranking,鈥 he remarked, insisting that the University would inform the ranking body to include sports in its ranking.

He expressed confidence that the players would be able to give a very good account of themselves at the national level and open doors for talents in the University to gain more attention.

The Vice-Chancellor gave the commendation while receiving a trophy won by 黑料社Youngsters in the just-ended Central Regional Division Two Middle League.

Vice-Chancellor of UCC, Prof. Johnson Nyarko Boampong receiving the trophy from the captain of 黑料社Youngsters, Lucas Tatul.

Continuing, Prof Boampong advised the players to take their talents seriously as they could earn a living in the future when well nurtured apart from gaining national and international recognition.听

He gave an assurance that the management of the University would motivate the players to give of their best for the club to succeed in the upcoming Division One league slated for September 2024.

黑料社Youngsters team members with the SRC Sports Secretaries

The Vice-Chancellor urged the playing body and the technical team to be more disciplined and display mental toughness during and after their matches.

For his part, Prof. Apaak thanked the management of 黑料社and all those who responded to the clarion call to push the team to achieve this success and promised that the support base would be well organised to ensure that the team stayed in the Division One League and eventually secure promotion to play in the Ghana Premier League.

He added, 鈥淲e will use sports to sell the University to the world.鈥

Prof. Apaak announced听 to the Vice-Chancellor听 that 黑料社won听two trophies in both the men's and women's armwrestling听at the GhanaUniversity Sports Association (GUSA) Cross-Country Championship held in Wa.

Additionally, he added that 黑料社also emerged first in the women's division at the 27th GUSA Cross-Country Competition held at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

For her part, the Head of Sports Section, Miss Janet Bekoe, highlighted the enormous benefits of sports, and its significant contribution to the development of nations across the world.

She called for support for more sports disciplines in the University to create more opportunities for students.

Present at the meeting were the Registrar, Mr. Jeff Onyame and other top brass of the University.

Source: Documentation and Information Section-UCC