Good year for OTSC
View(s):Old Thomians never die. They keep bouncing back. In 2014/2015 this old cliché’ was proved all over again when the old club by the sea excelled in three disciplines – water polo, swimming and cricket.
The OTSC Cricket team that competes in the CDCA Division 3 tournament
For the first time OTSC had one overseas player namely Mr. Zoltan Adam representing the club at the National league and also four overseas players namely Zoltan Adam, Victor Gymorthy, Robert Pinter and Thomas Adam representing the club at the Princess Chulabhorn Water-Polo cup 2014 in Thailand. All above mentioned athletes are professional club players in Hungary and Austria.
The Old Thomians Swimming Club won the Princess Chulabhorn Water Polo Club Championship beating Thailand in the finals 11 – 9. OTSC lost to Thailand in the first Round 7 – 6, but managed to qualify to the finals beating Japan. Malaysia and Singapore. It was a historic win as it’s the first time a team from Sri Lanka won a tournament outside the country. It’s the first ever win for the club and the country.
National Events
OTSC had a successful local season ending as Runner-up at the national league and National Championships in 2014.
OTSC was successful in fielding 2 teams at the National Water-Polo championship held in Oct/Nov 2014.
Felicitation
The president of OTSC along with the committee members felicitate the Men’s water -polo team along with the College team who won the Royal -Thomian Water-Polo encounter for the Dr. R.L. Hayman trophy 2014 and making it two in a row. The felicitation of the teams and hosting them for lunch at the club premises was held in last week of April 2015
Swimming
Masters short Course Championships held at SSC – OTSC fielded a team of 14 swimmers for this event and secured 3 Silver medals and 2 bronze medals.
Life Saving
This year in a move to uplift Life Saving at the club, Old Boy and lifesaving bronze medalist Mahen Jayaneththi has extended his time and experience in order to encourage and train the college athletes to follow training and to pass out at the intermediate course and subsequently proceed forward for the bronze medal.
CDCA Division 3 Cricket Tournament
This year the OTSC Cricket Team took apart in the annual Colombo District Cricket Association (CDCA) Division 3 Cricket tournament following the last year’s success in the CDCA league. This year too saw the OTSC team reaching the pre quarters although there was no doubt that the team had gone into the season with higher expectations. This certainly was a creditable by the Thomains young and old who have been continuously supporting the club over the years and taking the pride to represent OTSC cricket to go a long way for the Blue Black and Blue.
This year’s Captain Lakmal Fernando along with his assistant Nilshan Fernando produced a well-balanced side giving more opportunity to the college 1st XI immerging cricketers to maximize their potential and which also made stronger links to College Cricket. Together they had 22 registrations for OTSC Cricket Out of which 12 members were from college 1st XI squad.