Laayoune – Starting this weekend, the Columbia Lions women’s basketball team will travel to Morocco and Spain for a week, the team announced on their Instagram page on Monday.
The basketball team is scheduled to stay three nights in Morocco and four nights in Spain, returning to the US on Sunday, August 28.
Megan Griffith, the team’s head coach, said: “We’ll get the chance to be immersed in a different culture and a different world.”
As many players in her team might never get the chance to visit Morocco in their lifetimes, Griffith added, she wished to take her team to a different location that offers a special chance to see the world and encounter a distinctively different culture.
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The US team’s visit program includes a friendly match in Morocco’s Chefchaouen on August 23, and another two games in Spain. The first will be in Alhambra on August 25, and the second exhibition game will be held on August 27 in Seville.
During the tour, the Columbia Lions women’s basketball team will also have the opportunity to visit the cities of Chefchaouen and Tangier in Morocco, as well as Granada and Seville in Spain.
In Tangier, the team notably hopes to visit the Caves of Hercules and the Dar el Makhzen museum.
According to the Columbia Lions website, the tour will provide the team with some additional practice time following a historic 2021–22 season, in which the Lions achieved an overall record of 25-7 and went 12–2 in the Ivy League.
