Accra, September 23, GNA – Ms. Elizabeth Opoku, captain of the national women’s hockey team, Black Sticks Ladies, has been adjudged Ghana’s Outstanding Woman in Sports for the second time.
She led her team to gold at the recent African Games in Accra and led her club, GRA Ladies to win the 2024 Greater Accra Hockey League and the 2024 Fetu Afahye Competition held in Cape Coast.
She was honored at the seventh edition of the Ghana Outstanding Woman Awards (GOWA) held at the Wesley Towers in Accra organized by ASKOF Production.
He had previously won the same in 2019.
Speaking in an interview with GNA Sports, the national team forward thanked the organizers for the recognition and assured her fans and the hockey fraternity that she will continue to do her best for the sport.
She also acknowledged her mother’s support and thanked God for enabling her mom to see how far she has come in her athletic career.
The three-time Sports Writers Association of Ghana (SWAG) award winner, who is also a founding member of ChariCare, a non-governmental organization that supports underprivileged children and communities, was also grateful to all those who have supported her journey and career her.
Mrs. Opoku is one of the most decorated female athletes in Ghana and the continent.
In 2009, she was awarded as the best player in the Schools and Colleges Athletic Federation and won the promising star in the 2010 president’s cup. In 2012, the University of Ghana awarded her as the Discovery of the Year during the VC awards and she was named the best player and the top scorer at the 2013 Hockey Africa Cup of Nations in Kenya.
Accra-based Happy FM also awarded her the 2013 Fans Choice Award as the best player in hockey and won the International Hockey Federation (FIH) Best Young Player in the Hockey World League R1 the following year. In 2019, she was voted Ghana’s Outstanding Woman in Sports.
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