Thursday, 14 November 2013

ICS Elementary Athletics: Season 1 Team & Sport Club Review

This past weekend's games ended a very fun first season of play for our Elementary Sports department!  This season we had girls and boys U11 basketball, a U9 soccer team, a 2nd-5th grade Cross Country team, a 1st & 2nd grade basketball club, and a K4-K5 Bowling Club!  Let's take a closer looks at each of these team's and clubs!

K4 & K5 Bowling Club
For the second year in a row Ms. Heidi Garber led our bowling club!  This club met every Monday with a focus of learning important skills such as rolling and accuracy!  This year we had 10 students from our K4 & K5 classes join in on the weekly fun!  To conclude the club Ms. Garber took our bowlers to the West Coast Bowling Alley!

Lanora Miller testing out our new indoor bowling sets! 
Ms. Garber and her bowling club at the "bowling lanes!"
1st & 2nd Grade Basketball Club
Each Saturday morning, Coach Bandy and Coach Kuang took turns teaching basketball skills to some very eager 1st and 2nd graders!  During the 6 weeks of training our future ICS basketball stars worked on ball-handling, dribbling, passing, defense and shooting!  Each week our kids were getting better and better!  We are very much looking forward to seeing these 1st and 2nd graders represent our school someday competitively on the basketball courts!

Coach Bandy and the 1st-2nd Grade Basketball Club

Coach James Kuang explaining the next activity for the day!

Elementary Cross Country Team
For the second year in a row we had an Elementary Cross Country team made up of 2nd-5th graders!  These student-athletes met every Tuesday for an hour to run and work on their conditioning!  Ms.  Judith Shang took on the task of coaching this team, and she did an awesome job!  To conclude their season the team competed in the ACSIS Elementary Championship races at the Tampines Bike Park.  It was an extremely hot day, and a very muddy and tough course!  Each and everyone of our runners completed the course, and we are very, very proud of this team!

Elementary Cross Country Team

Coach Judith Shang giving pre-race instructions

Ready, Set, GO!

U9 Soccer
This year our U9 Soccer team was coach by Ms. Kara Foerger and Ms. Chelsie Slegers!  Their practices were every Monday, and then they would put their skills into action every Tuesday in series of round-robin games!  Their season concluded Saturday, Nov 8th with ICS playing 5 soccer games!  It was a lot of fun to see all the improvement shown throughout the season, and we are looking forward to watching this group in U10 next year!

Pre-Game Stretching

Coach Slegers giving some during-game Hi-Fives!

Coach Foerger dong some sideline coaching!

DEFENSE!

2013 U9 Soccer Team

U11 Girls & U11 Boys Basketball
For the third year in a row our 4th and 5th graders competed in the U11 ACSIS basketball league!  This league is designed for our young players to have competitive fun each week while at the same time work on developing their skills!  Our girls team finished 4th place in division 1, and our boys team finished 12th overall!  



Coach Erika Mejia and the boys watching the game

Our Varsity Boys came to Cheer on their Baby Knights
Our Girl Baby Knights proudly showing off their signs!

2013 U11 Girls Basketball Team

Alyssa Worley driving up the floor

Thanks for a great season Baby Knights!!!!  Knight Nation is very proud of each and everyone of you!

Go Knights!

Monday, 4 November 2013

Details for Knight Nation's Very Busy Week

This is a very big and busy week for Knight Nation!  We are hoping for big crowds at each of games this week.  If you would like any added details or bus information for any of the games below, please email Coach Alicia Bandy at abandy@ics.edu.sg.  Go Knights!

Tuesday, November 5th - The Varsity Girls Basketball team will be hosting Tanglin Trust up in the ICS Gym at 5pm!  This is a CBL semi-final game.

Wednesday, November 6th - The Varsity Girls Volleyball team will be playing @ CIS Lakeside.  The match starts at 4:30pm.  This is an ACSIS semi-final game.

Wednesday, November 6th - The Varsity Boys will be playing @ Waseda.  The game starts at 6pm, and this is a CBL semi-final game.

Thursday, November 7th - Elementary Sports Awards & Pizza Party.  3:15-4.  Awards in MPR, pizza to follow in the Canteen.

Thursday - There will possibly be a girls Volleyball match this day (details to come)

Friday, November 8th - ALL School Pep rally up in the ICS gym at 2:30pm.

Friday, November 8th - U14 Rugby team will be playing @ LFS at 5:30pm.  If the boys win this game they will be the Champions of ACSIS Division 2, if they lose this game they will win second place.

Friday, November 8th - Varsity Boys Basketball Team will either be playing for Gold or Bronze at UWC Dover.  The game will start at 6pm.

Friday, November 8th - The Varsity Girls Basketball team will be playing for either Gold or Bronze at UWC Dover.  If they are playing for bronze their game will be at 6pm, if they are playing for gold their game will be at 7:30pm.

Saturday, November 9th - The U9 Soccer team will be playing at the Tanglin Trust Sports Complex.  The games begin at 9am.  An email with details will be emailed to parents on Tuesday, November 4th.

Saturday, November 9th - The U11 Boys Basketball team will be playing in the U11 Finals Day at UWC East.  The games begin at 8am, and an email to the parents with details will be emailed on Tuesday, November 4th.

Saturday, November 9th - The U11 Girls Basketball team will be playing in the U11 Finals Day at Australian International School.  The games begin at 2pm.