Africa Zone 2 Championship: Aquatics Federation to pick swimmers from National Youth Games – Aliyu

President of the Nigeria Aquatics Federation, Mrs. Chinoye Aliyu said the Federation is using the on going National Youth Games to pick swimmers for the Africa Zone 2 Swimming Championship.

She said Nigeria will be participating in the Swimming Championship billed for Accra Ghana October 6-10 .

“We are starting camping next month with both junior and seniors swimmers expected to be in camp.
This Games is a huge opportunity for us to select young swimmers for the zone 2 championship.

“Don’t forget we are the defending champion and we need to go with our best swimmers for a positive result.
Am satisfied with the impressive performance by our young swimmers and we need more competitions for our young swimmers.
” As a federation we are working on getting more grassroots competitions for them.

Aliyu who is the Chairman of the Protocol and Ceremonial Committee revealed that presentation of medals for the games has commenced with a total of 1800 medals up for grab.