The grand finale of season five of the annual Dolphin Swimming League takes place today, at Grange School, Ikeja.
Considered as the country’s foremost schools swimming tournament, the league is an initiative to grow the sport of swimming from the grassroots to the international level.
It is organised by Dynaspro Promotions in collaboration with Advanta Interactive with the sole aim of unearthing talents from schools.
The tournament which has been endorsed by Nigeria Aquatics Federation and Lagos State Swimming Association and it has continued to grow in each season while it has provided some of the students and their schools the chance to hone their skills as well as compete with their counterparts at the one-day tournament.
Defending champions in the elementary and secondary categories – St Saviour’s School and Grange School will be aiming to continue their dominance when they battle eight others for the podium at the grand finale.
Other schools in contention for medals are Atlantic Hall, Greensprings School, Meadow Hall, Lagoon Whitesands, Children International School (CIS), Italian Priory, host – LPSS as well as clubs like Boken Aquatics.
According to the CEO of Dynaspro, Oluseyi Oyebode, this season has been fairly competitive as more schools have identified with the tournament. “Every season, we have schools coming on board and we hope that being the grand finale, the tournament will be competitive as some of the swimmers will be aiming to cart home medals for their schools. We believe that some of these athletes will represent the country in major competitions,” he said.
The tournament has received the official backing of the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC), and Nigeria School Sport Federation (NSSF).
