Commonwealth and African youth champion, Samuel Ogazi will continue his studies and athletics career in the United States of America.
The 200m and 400m youth champion signed a US college scholarship with the University of Alabama.
Ogazi, who was approached by several top US colleges such as Baylor University and Louisiana State University, settled for Alabama because of their rich track history in training young talents to their best.
He is regarded as the next big name in Nigeria athletics and will be hoping Alabama can take his talent to the next level of his young track career.
Ogazi was one of the breakout stars of the 2023 African U-18/U-20 Championships in Ndola Zambia where he completed the 200/400m double.
The 16-year-old whose 400m Personal Best (PB) going to Zambia was 47.79s, took a sizable chunk off it, storming to gold in 46.01s, the 2nd fastest time ever run by a Nigerian U-18.
He then went on to win the 200m in a new PB of 20.93s (-0.4m/s), with his teammate Sunday Okon Israel coming in for Bronze in 21.36s.