Grange, St. Saviours dominate Dolphin Swimming League Awards

Grange School, Ikeja and St. Saviours, Ikoyi, at the weekend, dominated the award ceremony of the Dolphin Swimming League hosted by Grange School.

In the secondary school category, Grange took the overall winner award with 1320 points, while St. Saviours reigned supreme in the primary division with 1484 points to be crowned the overall winner of season four of Nigeria’s first private inter-school swimming league.

The yearly league is organised by Dynapro Sports Promotion and Advanta Interactive, with support from Lagos State Swimming Association, Nigeria School Sports Federation (NSSF) and the Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC).

At the well attended award ceremony, the best overall swimmer award for boys was won by Aidan Dumuje-Abili of Grange School, who single-handedly won 15 gold medals in the U-11 category, while Teniola Akin-Olugbade of St. Saviours, who claimed 13 gold medals and one silver medal, won the girls’ award.

Grange also swept the awards in the U-7, U-8, U-14 and U-16, while St Saviours picked some awards in U-11, with Children International School (CIS) claiming awards in U-9 and U-11 categories.

The best newly discovered talent awards went to Oghenemarho Mueller of Riverbank School and Osamudiamen Aiwerioghene of Greensprings School.

Grange and St Saviours School shared the best productive coach awards for secondary and primary schools, while CIS were adjudged the most organised team of the tournament.

According to the coordinator of the event, Oluseyi Oyebode, the tournament has again unearthed talents that could be moulded to become world stars.

He said: “The award ceremony was organised to inspire students, as well as motivate the teams to work harder for next season. We are excited that season four has been