With a student population of around 166, Elizabeth Moir has only limited access to sporting potential, yet this has not in any way hindered its march forward in sports such as football and basketball, where it constantly offers stiff resistance to many larger schools.

In fact the school categorizes both football and basketball as it two main extracurricular activities and the results acquired in tournaments this year attest to this claim. Football yielded Moir's best finish in a competition this year, when their under 19 team journeyed all the way to the semifinals of the annual inter-international schools football championship, before losing to the hosts Royal Institute. Head of Sports for Elizabeth Moir, Anu Prakash, says one of the crucial contributors in this productive run through the tournament was the team's captain Arshad Rasheed and Jaah Ziyad.

Under 15 girls basketball team

The team has the added advantage of having all its members below the age of seventeen, meaning that they have the option of continuing to play together and improve for another two years. Moving onto basketball, the girls' team from Elizabeth Moir has fared exceptionally well both this year and in previous years. Late last year Moir's female cagers made it all the way to the semi finals of the Inter-International under 17 tournament supplementing the success of their under 13 boys' team that year, which made it to the quarterfinals. With regard to trophies, this year's under 15 team took home the Lakeland Inter American Basketball championship.

Another sport at which the school is steadily beginning to make inroads in is cricket. Mr. Prakash explains that interest for it is gradually picking up and the school is looking at cashing in on this.
"We only recently introduced cricket at the under 15 and under 17 levels and the boys fared very well at their respective tournament. In terms of a senior team we are still looking at developing the junior squad so realistically we won't have an under 19 team for about another four years," he reveals.

The Sports Head elaborates that although the small student population is a handicap at times, it is also greatly helpful in that each student is given an all round sporting background because often one student has to partake in several sports.

"We also encourage students to go out of school if they have to gain a more in depth grounding in the sport. For instance Nirasha Guruge, one of the country's top squash players, was from Moir and because we did not have facilities for the sport at school we encouraged her to go elsewhere to train," he adds.

Besides Nirasha, Elizabeth Moir has also produced Chiharu Higuchi and Imara Fahim, both of whom went on to become national swimmers. Mr. Prakash highlights that the school tries as much as possible to ensure that each student enjoys the sport he participates in, and is not merely driven by victory and accolades alone.

"We want them to make sports a part of their future life and we want to make it fun for them. That is why when they go out to compete we tell them most of all to enjoy themselves."