A late change of date and venue led to clashes between this year’s International Schools’ Athletics Championship and both the Junior School Play and Senior School Mock Examinations, forcing a lot of athletes to drop out.  Despite this, the students who were able to compete performed brilliantly, against tough competition from 3,000 other participants.

Athletics Captain Urshella Hisham deserves a lot of the credit for the success of the Senior School Athletics Squad over the last few years.  She encouraged the re-establishment of the squad and her enthusiasm and commitment have encouraged other students to join and give their best.  Urshella again led from the front this year, winning a Bronze Medal in 100m Hurdles and coming 4^th in 200m.  The break-through performer this year was Noah Le Berre, who finished 3^rd in both the 100m and 200m, the most competitive events of all.  In the Under 19 200m, Manuukith finished 5^th.

With most of the older Junior School students committed to the play, it was our younger students who led the way.  Junior 2 starred with Seong Chan Kim and Nirara Wijeyasinghe both finishing 5th in Long Jump and Seneli Jayawardane 5th in 60 m.  Our Under 9 Girls’ Relay team (Seneli, Limansa Thilakarathna, Upekha Gunawansa, Reveika Wijeyasinghe) brought the championship to a great conclusion by coming 5^th in the relay.  We are very excited to have so much great talent coming through in the younger classes.

Earlier in the term, seven Junior School students took part in the Colombo National Athletic Championship, with Seneli, Niara and Limansa all reaching the qualifying time in their races.

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