For six years, Patience Ocloo ran and won the 400-metres and 800-metres events in the Amasaman District Junior and Senior Secondary school competitions. But what made her achievements phenomenal was that she started running and winning the JSS athletics competitions, while she was in Primary 4. Then when she advanced to the JSS, she moved on to run in the Senior Secondary school competitions, which she also dominated.

It was only when she confided in a teacher from the Tema Secondary School, who attempted to poach her to their school because of her talents that her cover was blown as running ahead of her academic status. The school/district was banned.

Patience won a scholarship to study at Ghana National Academy in Kumasi, where she again dominated the 400-metres and 800-metres events. She joined the national team in 2005.
She joined the Ghana Airforce, and went ahead to win gold medals in the two events at the Security Services Sports Association (SESSA) Games, held in October 2007. The SESSA games, is held among the Ghana Armed Forces (hosts), Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana Immigration Service, Ghana National Fire Service and the Customs, Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS).
She again the two events at the National Athletics Championships held at the Sekondi Sports Stadium in the same year.
In 2008, Patience won a double in her favourite events at the national Individual Championship tournament. She trained with her colleague athletes in preparation for the All African games held in Ethiopia that year.
However, for unexplained reasons till today, while the team was leaving and her luggage was at the airport, she had a telephone call that there were orders that she was dropped from the trip! She told Analyst Sports she was training hard, with the hope that she would be a worthy ambassador to the nation.
KOFI SAM: SPEEDSTER
A silver medalist in the West African Junior Championship in 2004, Nana Kofi Sam, then known as Cyril Ferguson, became national sprint champion in 2007, when he won the 100-Metre race in that year’s national championship.
In 2008, while he was based in Spain, he participated in various competitions, building up his talent. He was disappointed at the unimpressive performance athletics team at last year’s International Athletics championship in Berlin, Germany, which he largely blamed on inadequate preparations. That lack of adequate preparations resulted from the uncertainty surrounding Ghana’s participation due to the war for turf at the administrative level.
A bronze medalist at the 2007 African championship, Nana Kofi Sam won both the 100metres and 200-metres events in 2009.
Just a fortnight ago, Nana Kofi Sam, a former student of St. Augustine’s Secondary School, clocked 10:09 Seconds, which gives him hope that given a competitive platform, he could make it higher this year.