Alpha Kisusi
Alpha Kisusi, 19 years old boy, Basketballer currently playing for Vijana Basketball Club, Most Valuable Player (MVP) 2011 at our National Basketball League (NBL), National Basketball Team Player, Last year was trained by Hasheem Thabeet (NBA Player) and Steve Smith (former NBA Star) and he was among the 3 boys who went to USA for further training as part of TBF and Coca-Cola- SPRITE clinics.
For the past two weeks there was a basketball camp for boys and girls going on at International School Tanganyika (IST) and today the camp was concluded. This Youngman and future basketball star has today been awarded a scholarship to pursue University studies and play basketball at Newfound Memorial University (NMU), Canada.
Thanks to Coach Bahati Mgunda of Vijana and Mambo Basketball Camp, Peter Benoite of NMU, Daryl Rastad of Tanzania Student Achievement Organisation (TanSAO) and Col. Kipingu Chairman of National Sports Council for officiating the today’s event.
This is part of our programme to develop our youth through basketball; we have many other projects including SPRITE SLAMS that will be conducted next month in 8 regions (Dar es Salaam, Mbeya, Kilimanjaro, Arusha, Mwanza, Dodoma, Morogoro and Shinyanga) and this September we will have another youth basketball clinic to be sponsored by US State Department/US Embassy in Dar Es Salaam.
The biggest basketball event this year October will be FIBA Zone 5 club Championship (East and Central Africa) to be played in Dar Es Salaam for Men and Women. All stakeholders, sponsors please join us.
NMU programme will continue again next year and more young people will get opportunities to study and play in Canada. I call upon all parents, students and teachers to ensure that they cooperate and work hard and intelligently. This is a good example of transforming young people’s life through sports in particular basketball
Source: Fullshangwe