St John’s Grammar Girls And Mfantsipim Boys have been crowned champions of the 2025 Hooprave 3*3 SHS basketball competition in Accra.
The maiden edition of the Hooprave SHS basketball competition powered by the Ghana Boxing Association which was streamed live on iUNGO World had 8 teams in both the men’s and women’s competitions.
The Cape Coast based school secured the trophy after beating Ketasco 13-12 in the final game that entertained fans of both schools and the neutrals at the Bukom Boxing Areana on Saturday, April 12, 2024.
Mfantsipim in their journey to the finals defeated Temale SHS, Presec-Legon, Adisadel College, West African SHS and Keta SHTs (twice) to become the national basketball champions.
Unlike the finals between Mfantsipim and Keta SHTs, St John’s Grammar Girls dominated the women’s final game after beating Ahantaman Girls 7-2 to secure the victory.
In the women’s division, Mfantsiman Girls secure third place after defeating Holy Child SHS while West Africa Senior High School fend off Okuapeman School to win the bronze medal.
MVP Belicia Dede of St John’s Grammar SHS and Dylan Cudjoe of Mfantsipim Boys SHS were crowned as the MVPs in the women’s and men’s competition respectively.
Speaking to Happy Sports after the competition, president of the Ghana Basketball Association, Ato Van-Ess said this competition has come to provide a unique platform for young talents to shine and also to serve as a place to scout for players for the national team.
He also thanked iUNGO World for streaming the games live to put more spotlight on the players because the world needs to see that Ghana has good talents in basketball.
“This competition has come to stay and now our players will have the platform to shine and showcase what they have to the world. The national team will also get to scout talents for the future and I thanked iUNGO World for streaming this game to its global audience and we thanked them for that.”
CEO of iUNGO World, Jerry Johnson was also impressed with the attendance and the level of the competition he saw at the Bukom Boxing Arena while stressing that the project was too good to ignore.
“iUNGO World is a streaming platform globally and we are glad to have come on board as partners for this competition because we are happy with what we have seen today and hope that next year’s own will be bigger.”
