Samuel Adade, Class of 2002, G'berg House, won the Sun Belt Conference Track & Field Championship with Middle Tennessee State University. Adade is seen here displaying the team's trophy and his medal. Samuel will be running the 4X100 meter relay for the university in the NCAA championships next week. Prempeh.org will be following the competition because we are so very proud of him.

The team -- MTSU, 2006 Sun Belt Conference champions. The Middle Tennessee State University team won the men’s championship by 50 pts (163 to 103 for 2nd place team). In this photo, Adade is on the right of the person holding the trophy. Adade holds the Ashanti super-zonal athletics record of 21.3s in the 200m race and a West Africa 100m and 200m champion (2004). He is a 2004 Olympian and finalist at the World Junior championship in Italy, finishing 7th.

Olympian Yussif Chibsah, G'berg House Class of '96, is in Germany as a member of the Black Stars. He is training with the world cup squad as one of the 5 standby players. he has played in one of the Black Stars' friendly matches so far.

And here is the man who trained bot Adade and Chibsah, Mr. Isaac Asare Lartey, G'berg House Class of '82. Mr. Lartey, 1982 Sports Prefect just coached the Prempeh hockey team to another Ashanti hockey championship title. He wins every competition he gets in. he has dominated the football competitions lately, having won it twice in a row. He could win the national Milo football for a second time in June 2006. Recall also that he won the Ashanti athletics also. Lartey's record is truly outstanding. Not only was he the coach of Dominic Oduro of FC Dallas and Senior Mawusi of Manchester United Academy, Lartey has also produced a remarkable 4 stars for the national Under-17 team. The last two "fastest youths in Ghana" (Adade and Goloe) were trained by him. He has been invited for a coaching course in US this summer. The invitation is from Coach Oliver Weiss of Virginia Tech, who visited our school in January this year.

And here is the man who trained Mr. Isaac Lartey, former G'berg House Assistant Housemaster, Mr. S.Q. Sraha, famously known as Cockroach. Mr. Sraha served Prempeh in the 1970s, 80s and 90s and coached Asare Lartey when Lartey was the Sports Prefect in 1982. Sraha also served as Lartey's housemaster at Guggisberg House. He brought Lartey to Prempeh in 1992/93 and helped groom him for eventual takeover. However, some difficult circumstances at Prempeh (i.e., the anti-sports brigade) compelled Mr. Sraha to seek retirement. He recently came out of retirement to coach at Osei Tutu Secondary School.

Mr. Sraha, whose famous words at Prempeh were, "keep jogging, Cockroach...you cockroach, keep jogging," is renowned for his dexterity at transforming an ordinary Joe into a superstar athlete. For example, when Senior Aaron Berkoh, son of OWASS headmaster James Berkoh came to Prempeh College 6th form in 1988, Mr. Sraha picked him from a Gberg dorm one afternoon, and handed him a discus throw, and asked him to proceed to the school field. "Hey Cockroach, take this to the school field. Keep jogging, you cockroach." Despite Aaron's protest that he didn't have any athletic talent, Mr. Sraha turned him into a star discus thrower in a few weeks. Owareans were therefore shocked to see one of their own -- a guy previously bereft of any athletics skill -- walking onto the field to compete for Prempeh at Superzonals. Cockroach was the one who helped hone the skills of Chibsah (Sraha's choice for '96 Sports Prefect) and current Asante Kotoko captain, Edmund Owusu Ansah. Mr. Sraha regarded all Prempeh students as "cockroaches." He served Prempeh in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

And this is the main Housemaster of G'berg at the time (1980s and '90s), Mr. Paul Okoh, now Member of Parliament for Asutifi North. Mr. Sraha was his deputy. Mr. Okoh was so kind back in the day; he used to give needy students money whenever they were in need, and he never had any problem with signing exeats and chits. This Hall of Famer is now leading a crusade against foreign mining companies that take advantage of the vulnerable Ghanaian citizens of the area.

Let us not forget the 2005/06 Senior Prefect, Ampong SO, G'berg House Class of '2006, who will be remembered as one of the greatest Senior Prefects of all time. Alaala is his nickname. This is the guy who never hesitated to put his badge down and walk off the job in protest of an act of injustice. He starved himself (his euphemism was "fasting") for so long during the school year during the Prefects struggle with the staff. In the end, the Headmaster went on the radio and publicly proclaimed Ampong as being "right." The Headmaster barely stopped short of apologizing to Ampong and his team of outstanding Prefects.