Team Ghana departs for 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games on Saturday

Swimming prodigies, Abeiku Jackson and Kaya Adwoa Forson head a 23-member contingent comprised of athletes and officials who will depart Accra on Saturday to represent Ghana at the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games in the Bahamas.

According to the Chef de Mission, Mawuko Afadzinu, Team Ghana will be represented by 12 athletes and 11 officials at the Games which take place between July 19 to 23 at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre in Nassau.

Other athletes scheduled to join Olympians Jackson and Forson on the trip are tennis players Emmanuel Nyan Plange and Marian Ibrahim, 400-metre runner Rafiatu Nuhu, beach volley players Kelvin Katey Carboo and Eric Tsatsu, cyclists Solomon Tagoe and Gabriel Tettey, boxers Alfred Kotey and Philip Quartey as well as judoka Emmanuel Kemevor.

Kaya Forson and Abeiku Jackson

All the athletes are aged between 14-18 per the rules of the Commonwealth Games Youth Games.

The Deputy Chef de Mission of Team Ghana explained that even the team did not have a kit sponsor their kits had been acquired and were well branded.

The officials of Team Ghana are Noah Bagerbaseh Bukari (tennis coach), Kodwo Abbiw Jackson (swimming coach), Moro Mumuni (beach volley coach), Theophilus Edzie (Technical Personnel), Vincent Akai Netty, (boxing coach), Dennis Kweku Moore (cycling coach), Joyce Boatey-Asyei (athletics coach), Martin Engmann (team doctor), Benedict Owusu (press attache) and two guests; Richard Akpokavie (Sevcetary General GOC) and Robert Sarfo Mensah (Chief Executive of the National Sports Authority).