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Sports at AIS, has always been encouraged. The energy of the students is directed into constructive, character building activities such as swimming, basketball, athletics, badminton, cricket and tennis. The children train hard and for long hours and with determination and perseverance they excel at whatever sport they pursue.

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Swimming

Swimming is by far the most popular sport at AIS, so much so that at the primary school level, swimming is on their timetable. A great number of students have chosen swimming as their sport and to encourage that, AIS conducts an Inter House swimming meet every year, in which over 200 swimmers participate. This is only the stepping stone to the bigger event – the Inter-International swimming meet which is the biggest event on the AIS calendar with approximately 15 international schools and almost 1000 swimmers participating. Not only does AIS host this event but our swimmers have won the championships regularly. Six students won National Colours this year. At present AIS is constructing their own pool at the school premises.

Swimming Squad of the Inter Internationals 2009

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Tennis

AIS boasts of several National Tennis players. Our Team is coached by Mr. Jayendra Wijeysekera.

This year AIS emerged winners in both the girls and boys championships. The championships were held at the SLTA courts on the 24th & 25th of October 2009 and was organized by AIS for the last five years now. In the league matches boys – AIS beat Gateway 5/0. In the semi-finals CIS beat Gateway 3/0 and AIS beat Lyceum 3/0. In an exciting final AIS beat CIS 3/1 to emerge winners in the boys category.
Girls
AIS beat Stafford 3/0 to reach the finals. Once again in a very exciting final game the AIS girls proved themselves superior by beating Colombo International School 2/0. Ishara Seneviratne the match umpire gave away the awards
Eshan Jeyamanne of Asian International School and Nilupul Gunasekara also of Asian International School were judged the Best Players of the tournament.

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Basketball

Close behind swimming comes Basketball. Our boys play in the under 19, under 17, under 15 and under 13 inter-international schools championships performing very well in all categories. Basketball coaching is available in school. Girls basketball is also doing performing excellently.

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Girls Basketball Team 2009

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Rowing

A new and exhilarating sport that began last year at AIS was Rowing…Undergoing hardcore training, long hours of beach runs and killer-sets of fitness – coached by Reshane Fernando, the Asian crew has managed to reach great heights in just a few months of just exploring the sport. The National Rowing Association has been most impressed with our performance and has granted our school immediate membership to the Amateur Rowing Association of Sri Lanka. The crew having taken part in the 23rd National Rowing Championships held during 16th-22nd September 2007, managed to qualify to the semi-finals in both boys and girls pairs and fours. Later in August 2008, our remarkable Under 16 double scullers ranked runners up to Ananda College at the Bolgoda Regatta. The crew now await for their next challenge at Nationals which will commence in a few days. All the best to our rowing crew – let AIS shine!

The Rowing Crew

Seated from Left : Imashi Ramanayake (Girls' Captain), Mr. Reshane Fernando (Coach), Thariq Iqbal (Boys' Captain)

Standing Middle Row : Thinisha Gunesekara, Indula Weerasinghe, Nazran Baba, Eshodaran Sureshkumar, Nelaka Dayawansa, Maveesha Ramachandran

Standing Last Row : Shaveen Perera, Rodric Vian Francis, Naveendran Rajendran, Dinuk Fernando

National Medal Winner, Imashi Ramanayake, Captain of AIS Rowing Team.

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Athletics

Athletics too is very popular among students. Athletic coaching is offered throughout the year for students as young as Primary One. Our athletes perform very well in their chosen events at the inter-international schools sports meets. A group of keen parents will be monitoring coaching squads this year.The Team is coached by Mr. K. W. Mithrasena

The annual Sports Meet was held in October 2009. Topaz successfully, came out as the winner, with Amethyst placing second, followed very closely by Garnet and finally, Sapphire.

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Cricket

Cricket is popular with boys. They begin as young as Primary Four. Our students perform very well at the inter-school tournaments for all age groups and have won in many Inter School events. The Team is coached by Mr. Len Plunkett.

In Picture: Under 15 boys

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