Sprite Ball

SPRITE BALL
Sprite Ball Championship, an annual inter-High Schools basketball tournament in Ghana, has the objective of unearthing talents and developing existing ones amongst the High Schools in Ghana. Since its inception in January, 2007, Sprite Ball has been described as the biggest and the most prestigious basketball competition amongst Senior High School students in Ghana.

SPRITE BALL: 2nd January 2007
The maiden edition of the Sprite Ball series was staged on 2nd January 2007 at the Aviation Social Centre, Accra, and it attracted over thirty (30) Senior High Schools across the length and breath of the country.

The boys’ competition was won by Achimota School with St. Augustine’s College and Oda Senior High School placing second and third positions. In the girls’ competition St. Mary’s came first.

SPRITE BALL: 2nd January 2008
After a very successful maiden edition, the second saw more schools participating. The event took place at the same venue in Accra.

Presbyterian Boys’ High School went home with the enviable cash prize and the trophy while their arch-rivals Achimota School came second. SOS International (Tema) took the third position in the boys category. Wesley Girls’ High School won in the Girls’ competition.

SPRITE BALL: 21st December 2008
The third edition saw the maiden regional competitions which took place in four regions. It marked the beginning of its advancement to other regions of the country, namely Greater Accra, Eastern, Central and Volta regions to select the regional boys teams and three girls teams to compete in the grand finale staged in Accra.

It was also in response to incessant calls from other P.E masters and students in other parts of the country who have been denied the opportunity to participate in this prestigious competition. We (Rite Multimedia and Sprite) therefore extended the competition to the regions.

For administrative expediency and the smooth running of the competition the month for the staging of the grand finale was changed from January to December.

The fourth edition would see the addition of two regions namely Ashanti and Western. It is however the vision of the organisers to cover the entire nation by the close of 2011. (Visit homepage for more details)

The Sprite Ball Championship (SBC) is an initiative of Rite Multimedia, sponsored by Sprite (The Coca-Cola Company Ltd) with support from the Ghana Education Service and the National Sports Council.