Dear Chinthes,

It is with great pleasure that I welcome you back to ISY and into 2024!

Although we have not had any athletics this week an athlete’s work is never done so we currently have many teams preparing for upcoming events, competitions and Yangon Athletic Conference games. Please take note of the upcoming events in the Upcoming Events and Practices section.

ISY is hosting its second invitational swim meet on January 19. The swim meet starts at 4:00 PM and will run to 7:00 PM. Please continue reading below in the Swim Team section for more information.

After school activities will start on January 29. This means that there will be information coming out soon about signups and the activities themselves. Please review the After School Activities section for more information on this.

Family Sports Day is on Saturday and I encourage all our community members to come along to ISY from 8:30-10:30 AM to enjoy a wide range of sports activities. There will be a 15,000 MMK entry fee but all activities after that will be free. This will be a great opportunity to come and try some different sports or activities out.

There will be swim trials for any student that is not currently in the swim team but thinks that they could be. Please read the Swim Team section below to find out more information on this.

Elementary Football Mini-League

Middle School Volleyball Tournament 

High School Softball

Swim Team

This is a notice for all swimmers that are not in the swim team but think they could be. There will be trials for the swim team on January 22 and 24. These trials will be held after school. 

The criteria for making the swim team is:

Elementary school swimmers – must be able to swim one length of freestyle and one length or backstroke or breaststroke. 

Middle and high school – must be able to swim and individual medley (25m butterfly / 25m backstroke/ 25m breaststroke stroke /25m freestyle)

Please contact Ms. Khine at hkhine@isyedu.org if you would like your child to trial.

Swim Meet information

ISY is hosting its second invitational swim meet on January 19. All information for swimmers will be sent to the swimmer’s parents early next week.

If you are interested in coming to support our Chinthe swimmers the meet will start at 4:00 PM and will be in the ISY school pool under the SAS building. The meet will run to 7:00 PM in the evening. 

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

After School Activities 

After school activities (ASA) will restart on January 29. ASA information will be made available to parents and students on January 19 via the Athletics and Activities blog. Signups will open at 7:00 PM on January 22 for two options per student and then open fully on January 23. 

Please make sure to sign into Powerschool to check that you are still able to access the parent Powerschool portal.

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

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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