Dear Chinthes,

This week our ISY high school basketball teams played our cross town rivals, Yangon International School. YIS traveled to ISY for these matches. Please continue reading below for the match summaries of these games.
After School Activities have been running smoothly for three weeks now. If your child does not want to continue in their ASA, please contact the Activities Office and we can withdraw their name and add the next person on the waiting list to that ASA.
On Monday, February 19, ISY is hosting a Teachers Teaching Teachers professional development afternoon. School will finish at 11:30 and all facilities will be closed for the rest of the day.

YAC Girls Basketball

High School Athletics

On Wednesday ISY hosted our cross town rivals, Yangon International School. YIS would send two very different teams for our basketballers to play against. Their boys team would be very young with no grade 11 or 12 students in their ranks. Whereas their girls team had both height and experience.

The ISY girls had their work cut out for them in their match. ISY were down three key players, who usually provide the impetus of the scoring. This meant that other players in the team would have to fill the scoring gap. The girls started well but soon found themselves down on the scoreboard. Our lady Chinthes each individually played outstandingly well. They played hard and pressured YIS into multiple mistakes. They rebounded well and contested every loose ball. However, YIS’s experience and height would win out the day. ISY made enough chances but couldn’t score the shots that they usually would have. The final score was 19-29.

The boys had a very different match to the girls. YIS had a very young team and would struggle right from the start. The final score ended 67-3. This game would give our boys a practice run type of situation and a chance to try new and different things. YIS should be commended for trying their best right up until the final buzzer in a game that would obviously be difficult for them. They showed signs that they should have a good basketball program in the future.

YAC Boys Basketball

After School Activities 

After School Activities have been running smoothly for three weeks now. If your child does not want to continue in their ASA, please contact the Activities Office and we can withdraw their name and add the next person on the waiting list. Please remember that it is now too late to swap from one ASA to another.

Parents will be able to check their child(ren)’s ASA schedule on PowerSchool. They will also be able to check where and when the ASAs will be and who is the ASA supervisor. This information will be automatically updated as changes are made to the students’ ASA schedules.

The times for ASAs are as follows:

Elementary school ASA 2:20 – 3:05 PM
Middle and high school ASA 2:40-3:25 PM

SEASAC Information

What is SEASAC?
The Southeast Asian Student Activities Conference is the athletics and activities conference that ISY belongs to outside of Myanmar. Each year ISY sends students to athletic, Model United Nations conferences and arts festivals. These events are a very valuable opportunity for our students to connect with other like minded students across Southeast Asia. This section in the Athletics and Activities blog will outline some of the important information and general happenings around SEASAC events.

SEASAC Dates:
SEASAC Touch Rugby @ UWCE, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Basketbal Girls @ Kuala Lumpur Alice Smith School, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Basketball Boys @ NIST, February 2, 3 and 4
SEASAC Arts Festival @ GIS and MKIS, February 2, 3 and 4

Swim Team

Here are the training times for our elementary, middle and high school swim teams.

ES Swim Team:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 2:20-3:20 PM

MS and HS Swim Team:
Monday, Wednesday and Friday 3:30-5:00 PM
Tuesday and Thursday 6:45-7:45 AM

Community Sport

Every Saturday a group of ISY community plays badminton and pickleball in the ISY gym. This is from 3:00-5:00 PM. 

If you are interested in playing either of these community sports please come along at the given day and time and you will be welcomed.

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ISY Sports Broadcasting

Last year a sports broadcasting club was started at ISY. They were able to cover some of our high school basketball games with great success. They produced a very professionally polished product.
This year they will cover our high school athletics for the whole year. If you are interested in this please follow the link below and this will lead you to the group’s Youtube page. So far the group has covered two high school volleyball games and some of the high school basketball games from last year.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIzBh86SGxeV22RG6ZHYW2g

Questions or More Information

As always, if you have any questions about what is in this blog or anything else that you may think of related to activities or athletics please feel free to contact me at:

josullivan@isyedu.org

Kindest regards,

Mr. Jonathan O’Sullivan

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