With the dawn of the new session 2011, football fever started creeping in as it was the season to begin with. We inaugurated the football season by having a staff – student football match on 5th of August. Students had good three weeks of training and fitness session before they started playing the Inter-house football tournament. The matches started on 29th August among the categories under-12, under-14, under-16 and under-18 both in boys and girls. The playing conditions were not so fine because of the frequent rain but the enthusiasm and the love for the game kept us all going. After the leagues matches were over the “Position matches” were played on the 3rd of September. A few enthusiastic parents also took out some time to witness the matches. The results were as follows:
1st place – Formula 1 with 30 points
2nd place – PGA Tour with 28 points
3rd place – Grandmaster with 22 points
4th place – Wimbledon with 20 points
There were awards for the most valuable players in all the categories. The awardees were –
Sarthak Dhandharia in Junior Boys,
Saachi Jain in Junior Girls,
Yash Munot in Intermediate Boys,
Nikita Shah in Senior Girls and
Amal Hosangady in Senior Boys.
This was the third consecutive year that we hosted the Inter-school Football Tournament under the banner “CONQUEST, 2011”where six schools in four different categories (Under-13 Boy, Under-16 Boys, Under-18 Boys and Girls open category)participated. The tournament was held on the 17th and 18th of September, 2011. It was quite intensive for us to organize because there were all together 24 teams who participated in different categories. By the end of the day it was a job well done from the organizing point of view. Thanks to Mr. Christopher who kindly consented to be the guest of honour on the final day. The results of the “CONQUEST, 2011” are as follows:
1st Position – Hiranandani Foundation School, Powai
2nd Position – Jamanabai Narsee School, Juhu
3rd Position – Cathedral Vidhya School, Lonavala
4th Position – Singapore International School, Mumbai
We also awarded the most valuable player in all the categories. They were –
Girls Open category – Paloma Thakkria from JNS
Boys Under-13 – Sanidhya Jain from CVSL
Boys Under-16 – Vaibhav Khandelwal from JNS
Boys Under-18 – Rohan Sawkar from SIS
The first Inter-school tournament that we participated by going outside was the HFS LIGA which commenced on 24th and 25th of September where nine schools participated. Here we participated in Under-18 Boys football and Under-18 Girls basketball. Both the teams did extremely well under the able guidance of Mr. Gabriel and Mr. Alex in football and Mr. Milin in basketball. The girls’ team reached the semifinals for the first time and unfortunately lost against HFS, Thane, whereas, the boys’ team brought laurels home by defeating JNS in the finals and winning the tournament.
On 16th October we visited Lonavala Vidya School to participate in “SPANDAN”, an inter-school basketball tournament. There our performance could not stand anywhere and we lost our first match against Vishwashanti Gurukul International School and were knocked out of the tournament.
Now our focus once again shifted in the in-house activities. We started the Inter-house Touch Rugby tournament on 18th October and continued throughout that week. The positions of the four houses in different categories are as follows:
In Junior Boys – Formula1, Wimbledon, Grandmaster, PGA Tour.
In Junior Girls –PGA Tour, Formula1, Wimbledon, Grandmaster.
In Intermediate Boys – Formula1, Grandmaster, PGA Tour, Wimbledon.
In Senior Girls – Formula1, Wimbledon, PGA Tour, Grandmaster.
In Senior Boys – Grandmaster, PGA Tour, Formula1, Wimbledon.
In IB Boys – Grandmaster, Wimbledon, Formula1, PGA Tour.
IB Girls did not participate.
The overall position of the houses were –
1ts Formula1, 2nd Grandmaster, 3rd Wimbledon & 4th PGA Tour.
On 5th and 6th November we participated in the JNS Inter-school Tournament in Under-18 boys and girls football. Here, inspite of better preparation our boys’ team could not perform well and lost In the quarterfinals against JNS, whereas the girls team reached the semifinals against all odds but lost against Kodikanal International School.
On 12th November our Under-16 Boys’ football team participated in the Pre SAISA Soccer, 2011. It stood in the fourth position out of six teams after losing in the semifinals against Kenkre Football Academy.
On 19th and 20th November our Under-18 boys’ Football team took part in the “ECOLE Energize”, an inter-school football tournament but unfortunately could not qualify further in the league match.