{"id":1187,"date":"2026-03-12T10:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:33:00","slug":"n-youth-sports-academy-shines-at-mtn-champs-season-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"N-Youth Sports Academy Shines at MTN Champs Season 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Athletes-s44.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1188\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>N-Youth Sports Academy Shines at MTN Champs Season 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">N-Youth Sports Academy recorded an impressive outing at the recently concluded <strong>MTN Champs Season 4<\/strong>, with its athletes delivering strong performances and demonstrating remarkable progress on the national stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the highlights for the academy came in the <strong>women\u2019s 100m final<\/strong>, where <strong>Ojone Akubo-Adegbe<\/strong> produced a solid run to finish <strong>3rd with a time of 12.45 seconds<\/strong>, securing a podium place for the academy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The competition also witnessed another brilliant display from sprint sensation <strong>Miracle Oluebube Ezechukwu<\/strong>, who continued her dominant form in Calabar. She completed a <strong>sprint double<\/strong> after winning the <strong>U20 women\u2019s 200m title<\/strong>, further cementing her reputation as one of the brightest young sprinters in the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same event, <strong>Chigozie Rosemary Nwankwo<\/strong> delivered a standout performance by clocking a <strong>new Personal Best of 23.79 seconds<\/strong>, breaking the <strong>24-second barrier for the first time<\/strong> to finish <strong>2nd in the 200m<\/strong>. Her performance marks a significant milestone in her sprinting career and highlights her steady improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Miracle Oluebube Ezechukwu<\/strong> and <strong>Chigozie Rosemary Nwankwo<\/strong> also showed dominance in the 100m girls which saw Miracle secured first place<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the performances at <strong>MTN Champs Season 4<\/strong> reflect the growing strength of <strong>N-Youth Sports Academy<\/strong>, as the athletes continue to compete strongly against top talents across the country. The podium finish and personal best achieved at the championship demonstrate the academy\u2019s commitment to developing young athletes and preparing them for higher levels of competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The academy remains proud of its athletes and looks forward to building on these achievements in upcoming competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N-Youth Sports Academy Shines at MTN Champs Season 4 N-Youth Sports Academy recorded an impressive outing at the recently concluded MTN Champs Season 4, with its athletes delivering strong performances and demonstrating remarkable progress on the national stage. One of the highlights for the academy came in the women\u2019s 100m final, where Ojone Akubo-Adegbe produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyouthsports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}