Gbour: Lady At The Top Of Basketball 

By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.

  The 2005 National Basketball League began under the leadership of Madam Gbour Wilson.

  She succeeded Philibert S. Browne as president of the Liberia Basketball Federation (LBF) at the end of last season. The latter quit the LBF’s top job following his election as president of the Liberia National Olympic Committee (LNOC).

  The new LBF president becomes the first lady to be at the helm of the second popular sport in the country.

  She ha stepped into the shoes of Counsellors Wheatonia Dixon-Barnes, Minister of Youth and Sports, and S. Izetta Wesley, president of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) as well as the former LNOC president Mrs. Deborah J. Williams. They all made history by becoming the first women to head these sporting institutions.                 

  The LBF president is a basketballer and former track and field athlete, having played and run for the St. Theresa Convent Catholic School and the Cuttington University College (CUC).

  Madam Wilson is also president of the Liberty Athletic Club (LAC), arguably the most organized track and field outfit in the country.

  Prior to taking over the gavel of authority at the Sports Commission, she served under Mr. Browne as Vice President for Administration. It was apparently based on her performance that she got the vote of confidence to go at the top of Liberian basketball.