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Girls and Sports in SOCA!
This may be a bit late in coming, but we shall be doing greater dis-service by not sending out this information.
Since the inception of the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy, SOCA, two decades ago, the girls’ programs have not been as robust and grounded as the boys’ only because there has not been an on-campus dormitory for them. It has been difficult for the girls to get the full dose of 4 hours of sports every day!
Living one kilometre away, and commuting to and from the main campus for their daily academic and sports workouts affected the depth of their programs, limiting the impact on their overall performance in SOCA.
All of that is about to change!
When SOCA resumes for the new session from 14th September 2025, an ultra-modern, freshly-minted Girl’s dormitory will be ready on the Campus.
A grand program to produce some female national team players for Nigeria in Football, Track and Tennis, in 3 years, would begin in earnest.
A Cameroonian/American Track and Field coach, former assistant to late Lee Evans, will be joining SOCA as head of the athletics academy.
The tennis and football programs for the girls will be boosted with new coaches, facilities, programs and equipment.
With the dormitory now in place, SOCA has a few vacant places in JS1 to SS2 only, for talented Girls in Sport, passionate about it and willing to combine it with academics!
Those interested should immediately get in touch with Denis on 08034901541 for any enquiries.
Denis Owumi
Administrator, SOCA
This may be a bit late in coming, but we shall be doing greater dis-service by not sending out this information.
Since the inception of the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy, SOCA, two decades ago, the girls’ programs have not been as robust and grounded as the boys’ only because there has not been an on-campus dormitory for them. It has been difficult for the girls to get the full dose of 4 hours of sports every day!
Living one kilometre away, and commuting to and from the main campus for their daily academic and sports workouts affected the depth of their programs, limiting the impact on their overall performance in SOCA.
All of that is about to change!
When SOCA resumes for the new session from 14th September 2025, an ultra-modern, freshly-minted Girl’s dormitory will be ready on the Campus.
A grand program to produce some female national team players for Nigeria in Football, Track and Tennis, in 3 years, would begin in earnest.
A Cameroonian/American Track and Field coach, former assistant to late Lee Evans, will be joining SOCA as head of the athletics academy.
The tennis and football programs for the girls will be boosted with new coaches, facilities, programs and equipment.
With the dormitory now in place, SOCA has a few vacant places in JS1 to SS2 only, for talented Girls in Sport, passionate about it and willing to combine it with academics!
Those interested should immediately get in touch with Denis on 08034901541 for any enquiries.
Denis Owumi
Administrator, SOCA
Muda Lawal of Nigeria opened scoring and closed the scorers’ chart of the 1980 African Cup of Nations,scoring the first of tournament’s 33 goals against Tanzania and scoring the last goal in the final match against Algeria.
Big Shegs, thanks for these wonderful videos.
Very interesting memories. We were fanatical about the Green Eagles as they were then called. Henry Nwosu had just broken into the team. We were extremely jealous of him because he belonged to the other school. We also were jealous of Adokie because he was from another other school, but nonetheless we were proud of them because they represented the best of Lagos schools who graduated into the national team. Can’t wait to see more videos?
Great guys Adokiye was superb on d left , Segun terrific on on d right…d Eagles of today must learn from dis clips and start to play like true Eagles
Great stuff. Thanks sharing this piece history with us your aburos Big Sheg. Always the Mathematical 7!
Just look at those short pants showing the physics of the sportsmen.
When men were boys. Highly determined without thinking of financial benefits from anyone because they were all fully employed.
I salute you all sirs.
Fantastic and great memory sir.
Well done the Mathematical Odegbami “7”