Dear Chinthes,

This week was the final week of the Yangon Athletics Conference high school basketball season. On Wednesday our girls were playing for 3rd or 4th place and our boys were playing for the championship. Please read below for more information about how our teams did.

This week ISY sent a large delegation of students to the SEASAC MUN conference. Please read below for details about this conference in the SEASAC section.

There will be middle school badminton trials this coming week. Please continue reading below for more information. 

Please continue reading this blog for other important information including facility usage.

YAC Girls Basketball

High School Athletics

This week the ISY girls and boys basketball teams played a semifinal and a final game. The girls and boys both hosted their opponents on Tuesday and the winners would play for the championship and the losers would playoff for 3rd or 4th place.
On Tuesday the ISY girls played against YIS who dominated the rebounding with their added height from the start. This was difficult for our girls to combat. There were signs that we might be able to claw back into the game but YIS were deserved winners in the end. (YIS would go on to win the final.)
In the 3/4 final match ISY played ILBC International School. The ISY girls jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. They beat ILBC for a third place finish in the end of the season tournament which capped off a successful season.

On Tuesday the boys played ILBC International School to see who would play in the championship match. ISY would win this match comfortably. That would set up a game against International School Myanmar. This season the teams shared a 1-1 win loss record against each other.
ISY started off down by 13 in the first quarter, but made a slow, methodical comeback throughout the rest of the game. In the middle of the 4th quarter, we tied the game, but it was short lived as ISM quickly scored a couple of buckets to pull ahead. ISY tried our best to aggressively play defense and quickly score. Unfortunately, ISM’s defense at the end was too tough and they scored a couple more times to beat us by 6 points.

The final results for the YAC season are, girls 3rd and boys 2nd. Success is measured by many things and not just the number of wins a team has. I can confidently say that our girls and boys basketball teams had many successes over the course of their season. All the players and coaches should feel happy and proud of their season.

YAC Boys Basketball

SEASAC Model United Nationas

This year the SEASAC Model United Nations is being held at NIST International School. Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations where students play the role of delegates from different countries and attempt to solve real world issues with the policies and perspectives of their assigned country. For example, a student may be assigned the United Kingdom and will have to solve global topics such as nuclear non-proliferation or climate change from the policies and perspectives of the United Kingdom.
Our ISY students are traveling to NIST as delegates and committee chairs. This year ISY has five committee chairs which might just be a record. The students traveled to NIST on Thursday and started their conference on Friday. I look forward to reporting more on this conference in next week’s blog.

Middle School Athletics 

The middle school badminton season will start next week. We will start with trials on March 6, at 3:30 in the school gym. Successful athletes should expect to practice on Monday and Wednesday at 3:30 PM for the remainder of the season.
Middle school students should check their email for an email from me with a form to fill out. Please fill out this form if you are interested in playing middle school badminton for ISY.

After School Activities 

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 MUN @ NIST, March 1, 2, and 3
SEASAC Softball @ BPS, March 22, 23 and 24
SEASAC Badminton @ UWCE, March 22, 23 and 24
SEASAC Music @ UWCE, March 15, 16 and 17

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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