Dear Chinthes,

There has been a flurry of athletic activity over the last couple of weeks and next week there will be some more to look forward to. Two weeks ago our middle school badminton team played in the annual Yangon Athletic Conference (YAC) middle school tournament. Today and tomorrow it is our high school badminton players that will have their chance in the high school YAC badminton tournament.
Elementary school sports will be in focus for the next two weeks. This week a group of grade 9 students have organized a football tournament for the ISY elementary school students. Next week it is the basketball players’ turn to have their tournament on Tuesday. Finally, on Friday evening our grade 3-8 swimmers will be in action when ISY hosts a friendly swim meet.
For more information on all these events, please continue reading below.
Next week there will be some changes to the facilities schedule. Most noticeably, the campus will be closed on Thursday afternoon/evening for an event. Please read the Facilities Schedule section below for more details.

Elementary School Athletics

This week the elementary school football players were able to play in an ISY internal tournament. This was organized by a group of grade 9 students. The young athletes played their pool matches on Wednesday afternoon. On Friday, today, the finals will be played.
Next week’s blog will have more information on how the tournament went.

Next week it will be the elementary school basketball players’ turn. ISY will host Yangon International School at the ISY gym. We will play a series of games between the schools. These games should be a fun way to introduce team basketball to our younger athletes.

Also next week, there is a swim meet on Friday evening for grade 3-8. This will be a great way to end the school year and look forward to next year with even more mets. There will be teams from British School Yangon (BSY), Network International School, ILBC International School and Yangon International School (YIS). The meet will run from 4:00 till 7:00. Supporters are most welcome.

Middle School Athletics

On the 6th of May our middle school badminton team traveled to International School Myanmar to play the YAC middle school badminton tournament. There were some challenges through the day but our ISY athletes showed The ISY Way by being resilient and competing to the best of their abilities.
Here are some of the notable performances from some of our Chinthes:
Ty G8, boys singles 4th place
Wilson G7 and Jack G8, boys doubles 3rd place
Lei Lei G8, girls singles 2nd place
Yoon Yoon G6, girls singles 1st place

Next week, there is a swim meet on Friday evening for grades 3-8. This will be a great way to end the school year and look forward to next year with even more mets. There will be teams from British School Yangon (BSY), Network International School, ILBC International School and Yangon International School (YIS). The meet will run from 4:00 till 7:00. Supporters are most welcome.

High School Athletics

Today and tomorrow, ISY will host the last YAC event for the school year. It is now a chance for our high school badminton team to showcase their skills. Today, the girls’ team will play. The matches will start at 4:30pm and the tournament will follow the SEASAC format.
On Saturday, starting at 8:00am, the boys’ team will play their tournament. Their matches will follow the same format as the girls’ tournament.
Good luck to all our badminton athletes this weekend.

Our high school touch teams will play their last games next week. They have been training hard since December and will show their skills in a final tournament. The schools that will attend will be Network International School, Victory School and ILBC International School.
We wish them all the best.

Swim Team

There will be a swimming meet next week on the 26th of May. This meet will be for swim team members from grades 3-8. Swim team members will be required to start their warmups at 3:00. Swimmers should make their way to the pool by 3:00 and then follow their coaches directions. The swim meet will end at approximately 7:00pm.

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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