Record Entries Expected for GCU Relays
Whilst awaiting the official flag-off and portal opening for invitations and entries of the Sixth edition of the GCU Relays 2024, regular participants at the annual Inter-Collegiate Athletics Competition, have inundated the organizers (Government College Ughelli Old Boys Association, Worldwide) with enquiries and outright submission of entries.
Perennial participants and previous winners of the One Day Track Meet, Hussey College and Federal Government College, Warri, have led the charge.
Although the GCU Relays are originally meant to be Invitational, with correspondences to Legacy Schools, Pan Nigeria, increasing demand for participation by schools, outside this bracket, has ensured an open window for some schools to feature after critical screening and assessment. Schools in this category fall within the geographical proximity of GCU, whilst a few have come from distant locations, such as Yewa College, Ilaro, at the second edition.
Still, the organisers are conserved with the integrity of the GCU Relays and the need to checkmate and screen out desperate mercenaries.
‘’We have noticed the huge interest shown towards the GCU Relays, over the years. Yet, we are mindful of the mercenary tendency by some schools’’, PGWW Chief Albert Akpomudje, SAN disclosed, adding ‘’although the original intent of the GCU Relays, was Invitational, based on the deluge of entries from non-invited schools, we cannot shut the gate’’.
The Sixth edition of the GCU Relays holds on November 9th 2024, at the school’s Tartan Tracks, now in some need of remedial maintenance that can only be affected by the Donors- NNPC/SHELL Development Company.
Fundamental to the GCU Relays, is the development of outstanding secondary school Athletes for schools and the Nation. Tracks Stars, Godson Oghenebrume and Sunday Akitan are products of the GCU Relays, which now hug the national limelight.
