Kumasi Ladies to get basketball exposure

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), in collaboration with Three Female Ballers (F3B), a private organisation from the United States of America (USA) is undertaking a project to enable potential female basketball players in the metropolis to develop their talents.

The project, which is being sponsored by F3B, forms part of the assembly?s efforts at expanding sports from a soccer based arena and encouraging females to identify their talents in basketball.

Under the project, talented basketball girls from various second cycle institutions in the metropolis are to benefit from scholarships to enable them to further their education and sporting career in the United States.

Additionally, they will benefit from incentive packages including sports kit during the period of the project.

Consequently a 13-member delegation from F3B comprising seven American young women, two coaches, two resident assistants and two chaperones yesterday paid a courtesy call on Mr. Maxwell Kofi Jumah, Kumasi Metropolitan Chief Executive to mark the beginning of the project.

In an address, Diana L. Tyson, leader of the delegation explained that the aim of the project is to give selected American girls an African exposure and cross-cultural interaction.

She said most girls have talents in basketball but nobody is looking out for them since all the focus is on men.

Mr Kofi Jumah described the project as timely and said that it has come at a time when government is trying to expand the sports base from soccer alone. He stressed that women sports development is one of the primary responsibilities of the assembly and expressed the hope that the project will be a success.