Volunteer Basketball Coaching in Ghana

Although football in the number one sport in Ghana, basketball is quickly growing in popularity.

We are looking for volunteers to assist us in organizing a new basketball league for competition between high school and elementary schools in the Cape Coast area. This volunteer position requires a self-starter and good administrator who has an abiding interest in basketball, either as a current or former player, coach, official or manager.

Your role will be to work with our local Coordinator to organize all aspects of the new basketball league in Cape Coast. This will include meeting with school administrators to organize students into teams; establishing practice and training sessions for the players; recruiting and training local coaches and game officials; acquiring equipment; designing team logos; arranging printing of game jerseys; creating competition schedules; maintaining game statistics; deciding on player awards; generating publicity for the leagues, etc.

There will be daily practice sessions from Tuesday to Friday, then a full schedule of games on Saturdays at one of the local schools. The local Ghanaian players will range in age from 8-17 and will be at different skill levels. There are several players from Ghana who are now playing professionally and at universities in North America and Europe, so there is definitely some basketball talent in Ghana.