Girls win Under-18 & Under-16 Football

Our senior Girls’ team has not lost to another school since before Covid, which is incredible. In the Under-18 Inter-International Schools’ tournament, with several key Upper 6 th players too old to play, it was clear they would not have things all their own way when they conceded a goal in one of their group games, for the first time in years in a TISSL tournament. The 4-1 win against Lyceum, Nugegoda and a 1-0 win against Gateway anyway took the girls through to the final, where they beat the British School on penalties, after a 1-1 draw in normal time, with Reveika Wijeyasinghe scoring. Congratulations to Captain Eva De Silva on retaining the trophy they won last year and Seneli Jayawardane, who won the award for Best Defensive Player.

Jayawardane, who won the award for Best Defensive Player. The Under-16 Girls won their opening game against Lyceum, Panadura 12-0 with Leah Jayasinghe scoring 7 goals. Victories over Stafford and Gateway took them through to the final against CIS. Sinadi Jayawardena scored the only goal to make the girls this year’s Under 16 Champions. Congratulations to Leah, who won the award for Best Player, and to Captain Araylia Campbell.

The tournament took place the weekend after the Under-20 COMBOS Futsal, which both our Boys’ and Girls’ teams won, meaning Coach Ellis had led teams to victory in his first four tournaments within the space of three days!