St. Joseph’s overall champs at Sir John Tarbat Athletic Championships
St. Joseph’s College emerged the overall Champions at the 48th Sir John Tarbat Junior Athletic Championships. Naveen Marasinghe established a new meet record in under14 Shot Putt event(14.74m) and Under 15 relay team comprising of Shehan Fernando, Enuka Arachchi, Sithijaya Perera and Teran Karunanayake established a New meet record in 4x 100m relay. St. Joseph’s [...]
IIT Rugby and Basketball teams emerge victorious at Malaysian UiTM Sports Fiesta
Not limiting itself to educational acumen alone, the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) recently displayed its sporting prowess when the basketball and rugby teams of IIT emerged victorious at the 12th UiTM Sports Fiesta 2017. The sporting fiesta was held recently in Malaysia. The IIT Rugby Team was awarded the gold medal while the institute’s [...]
Sanuli bags two karate gold medals
Sanuli Nethara Wijesundara of Kalutara Balika Vidyalaya bagged two karate gold medals events recently. She won a gold medal at the International Karate Tournament conducted by the Wado Kai International Association and followed her success with another gold medal at the Kalutara District Karate Tournament conducted by the Western Province Karate Do Association of Sri [...]
Top sportsmen felicitated at Isipathana Colours Night
Top sportsmen, who brought pride and performed well for their school, were felicitated at the annual Colours Night Ceremony of Isipathana College, which was held at the Colombo University New Arts Theatre recently. Among those who received awards rugby player Harith Bandara and cricketer Salinda Ushan Perera took the spotlight by claiming the two important [...]
Pegasus House overall winners
Pegasus House emerged overall winners at the annual Inter-House Athletic Meet of Wycherley International School which was conducted on October 27 at the NCC ground in Colombo. Shalini Udawatte of Athena House was awarded the Best Performer’s Trophy for Girls for her timing of 14.2 seconds in the 100m event while Shuail Mushtaq of Triton [...]
Marsha and Jinani makes OLV proud
Marsha Fernando and Jinani Fernando brought honour to Our Lady of Victories Convent, Moratuwa by claiming podium finishes in their respective events at the All-Island Schools Games 2017 concluded recently. Marsha was placed second in the Under-16 Girls’ High Jump event while Jinani secured the third place of the Under-14 Girls’ Pole Vault event. Both [...]
Joes win Under-17 Schools cager championship
St. Joseph’s College Colombo beat Asian International School (AIS) 58-53 to clinch the All-Island National Schools Under-17 Basketball Championship in the final played at the Royal College courts in Colombo. St. Joseph’s had an unbeaten record throughout the tournament and was almost challenged by Asian International School, who led the halftime by 30-28. But the [...]
Atharidh House champs at Al-Manar International School Sports Meet
Atharidh House emerged overall champions at the annual Sports Meet of Al-Manar International School held at Shailka grounds in Narahendpita. Next to the champions, Zuhra House were placed overall runners-up. The Sports Meet of Al-Manar International was held successfully with almost all of its students participating with great enthusiasm, enjoying their day out on extracurricular [...]
Royal cagers down Thomians in 14th encounter
Royal College, who were at their peak, managed to beat their traditional rivals in a nail-biting match at the 14th Royal-Thomian Basketball encounter by 44-42 at Hendry Pedris Courts in Colombo. Royalists also won two valuable awards — the Best Defensive Player and Most Valuable Player — as Tharindu Balasuriya and Rukshan Atapattu respectively claimed [...]