1st Chloe memorial sports tournament
- Champions: Muzza High School
- 1st Runners up: Empower International Academy
- 2nd Runners up: Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga
- 4th Position: Bombo Army Secondary School
- 5th Position: Kigezi High School
- 6th Position: St Mary’s High School, Zirobwe
- 7th Position: Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga
The sporting legacy of Nyongore Chloe Innocent will forever be remembered and celebrated at Mt. St Mary’s College Namagunga.
Nyongore died in 2024, aged 17 years-old (due to severe malaria) and was a multi-faceted sports personality.
She was also the team captain of Mt. St Mary’s Namagunga for the sport of Lacrosse.
Besides Lacrosse, Nyongore also played netball, volleyball, lawn tennis and volleyball.
To celebrate her life, a Chloe memorial sports tournament was organized at the school on Saturday, 22nd February 2025.
This day long sports gala lured many other schools and entailed the sports disciplines of Lacrosse, chess, netball, volleyball, basketball and lawn tennis.
Muzza High School emerged as the overall champions.
Empower International Academy and hosts Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga were first and second runners up respectively.
The fourth placed school was Bombo Army Secondary School with Kigezi High School coming fifth.
In the sixth position was St Mary’s High School, Zirobwe as Mt St Mary’s College Namagunga 7 finished seventh overall.
The Chloe memorial sports tournament will be an annual event held at Mt. St. Mary’s College Namagunga to honour the legacy of Chloe, a former student whose passion for sports left a lasting impact on the school community. This tournament not only promotes teamwork and sportsmanship, but also, a platform to showcase young talent and strengthen friendships among the different participants, celebrating the values of discipline, resilience and determination of honour of Chloe’s memory.
For starters, Nyongore fully received the Mt. St Mary’s College Namagunga Lacrosse Programme in 2022, as she was in S2.
Two years later, she captained the school team to a respectable fifth place finish during the 2024 USSSA Non-Feassa games hosted in Soroti city.
Nyongore was summoned on the Uganda national team preparing for the world games in Korea in 2026 and courageously had started to learn the Korean language by herself.
She was laid to rest in Rwentuha village, Bushenyi district in Western Uganda on 22nd September 2024.
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