Dear Chinthes,

This week some of our high school students have been participating in the Tri-Sports tournament. This is a nice tournament where teams will choose 12 players for their squad and those 12 players will play all three sports. This means that some students might have to play a sport that they are not familiar with. This is a fun tournament to end the school year with.
International School Myanmar has organized this event. On Friday the teams played football at South Dagon Fields. Last night (Friday), the teams played basketball at ISM. Tonight will be the final part of the tournament. The teams will finish with volleyball at ISM.
We wish the teams well for the rest of the tournament.
During the summer break the ISY facilities opening hours will change slightly. Please check next week’s blog for more information about this.

SEASAC Awards

SEASAC Awards Ceremony

After an absence of some years it was wonderful to present the ISY Athlete of the Year last night at the SEASAC Awards Ceremony. In last night’s ceremony we recognised all our students that have represented ISY in SEASAC sports and events. This is important because our students are hard working young adults. We expect a lot from them in the classroom and then ask them to represent the school to the best of their ability. This can be a lot for a young person to take on, yet, these ISY students do it. And they do it well. They commit to training, playing, traveling and then fulfill all their academic responsibilities as well.
Two of these students deserve special mention above all the other outstanding girls and boys that have represented ISY this year. These would be our girl and boy ISY Athlete of the Year. To be an athlete of the year you must be good at sport, but there is far more to being the athlete of the year than that. Whoever receives this accolade wins this award as much for what they do out of the sports arena as in it. They are looked up to by their peers and younger students and respected by their coaches and teachers. I think when you read the names below you will say to yourself that these are two very deserving recipients of this award.
It is my pleasure to inform you that this year’s girl and boy ISY Athlete of the Year are Phyo Phyo (Grade 9) and Kyaw Min (Grade 11). I think if you consider the criteria above, ISY is proud to call these two students our Athletes of the Year.

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

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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