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By: Coach Joao

The U-11 Boys Football Team! By: Coach Joao Delgado

The U-11 this year has joined a much stronger league group and has already tasted the savor of Victory and Defeat! They will be having their TISAC tournament 23rd of March here at Concordian! Let’s all support them until the last game!

TISAC Senior Badminton Tournament Girls Doubles : First place Mixed Doubles : First place Boys Doubles : Third place Boys Singles : Third place Girls Singles : Fourth place Team Standings - 2nd Place Congratulations Boys : Shin G10 (Boys Doubles) Max G10 (Boys Doubles) Krij G12 (Mixed Doubles) Chris G12 (Boys Singles)

6 Girls : May G10 (Girls Singles) CONCORDIAN

Cherry G10 (Girls Doubles) Eye G10 (Girls Doubles) Pakkard G11 (Mixed Doubles)

By: Coach Tiew, Coach Yatima

Players are best friends and they demonstrate true team spirit in victory and defeat!

This team has been playing for two years here at Concordian!

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ur IMPACT reporter visited with the football players who play every Thursday with Grasshoppers and discovered that the U-15 boys team has something special.

IMPACT – What gives this team a special chemistry?

Player – That’s a good question because you see already we have a connection between each other.

Maybe it comes from hanging out as friends and many of our families doing things together on vacations. Maybe because we all play music and share a similar groove. Definitely we all love football.

IMPACT – Do you have a Messi or Ronaldo on the team?

Player – Tan is probably our Ronaldo. He made goals during our League play that had the other team’s defense scared the next time he got the ball. He had a sweet goal in TISAC Tournament against KIS where he cut and faked a few players and blasted it in the corner. Cutting is Tan’s specialty and he can shoot left or right. Peem, too, can shoot well with both feet. Coach K. insists we use both feet and it really helps. Oh, in Thailand, Puthip is one of the top goalkeepers from his age group. It is not just his positioning and awareness, but the sensational saves that he makes.

Puthip, always the balanced IB student, creates geometrical shadow patterns before performance

IMPACT – You were the first team from Concordian to play in an international tournament. How did that feel?

Player – Yeah, it was so much fun at Myanmar. We were playing well and everyone was watching us by the second game and cheering for “the Thai team”. It kind of inspired us and we played even harder, made it to the finals, and lost a tough one. What’s really weird is the same thing happened this year when we hosted the SEAIS Tournament. We played very well, made it to the finals and got beat. Not next time though.

IMPACT – We wish you all the best of luck and will be ready to cheer for you at Dragons Football Festival in May.

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IMPACT – Are there upcoming tournaments that you will go to?

Player – The biggest one is the Alaska Cup in the Philippines in November. Still this year, we play in the Eastern Seaboard High School Tournament soon and have our own Dragons Football Festival on May 14.

IMPACT – Coach K, what do you say about this team?

Coach K - Coach Yuri saw the potential with these guys.

He and I made a 3 year plan for them when he handed the team over to me. We are at a stage now where many of the players are improving individually with skills and technique, quickness on the ball, and increased endurance. In the next few months we will be working on connections of 4 and 5 players and coming together as a unit. By playing in international tournaments we get exposure and the boys see how top clubs perform that train year round. By the time they graduate I want these Dragons to have what it takes to play at the university level.

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By: Coach Kim

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he U-11 Girls’ Football team are off to a great start! They’ve been practicing 2 times a week to improve their skills and be able to work as a team. The girls have played 5 games and still have 2 more, plus a tournament on March 23. Come out on March 22 at 1:00pm to cheer on the girls for their final home game!

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earning a new sport is hard, exciting, and takes courage. That is exactly what these Grade 9 ladies did in January when they attended their very first official volleyball practice! We have seen so much growth in teamwork, skill, footwork, and determination in this team. We can’t wait to see what the future continues to bring for this group of talented young ladies!

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By: Coach Martin and Coach Nicki

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t was an early Thursday morning. Most of the swimming team members were all together in Suvarnabhumi airport.

The plane was about to take off, and we were crowded around the boarding area. We all sat next to our parents, some were doing homework and some were playing games.

The first day was just getting used to the weather in Phuket. The next day we all woke up very early to get to the British School that we were having the swim meet in. We got there before all the other schools so we started the warm up before them. About an hour later, we were holding a Concordian Flag like the other schools with their flags, walking all around the pool. Concordian had about 10 swimmers, and all the other teams had about 30-50 swimmers, some even more. There were a lot of other schools, including some from overseas!!!

The racing part was short and quick; it’s like no turning back after jumping into the pool. You just had to swim as fast as you could. After everyone finished, we all went back to the hotel or a restaurant.

The race lasted for about three days. The flight back was delayed. We had to wait for about another hour in the airport, which was super boring. Thinking back to practicing for the meet, I think we all worked really hard. It all started from November, swimmers that went to the FOBISIA meet stayed about 30 more minutes to practice every time.

Beck and Thomas each got a medal. Beck got a Bronze and Thomas got Silver. Pei Pei and Nana did very well.

They’ve won a lot of ribbons.

The youngest girl that went was Arpi. She is still in Kindergarten!!! Henry and Wei-en also went. They were very excited. Sun had only one event freestyle, but he did well on the freestyle. Titan and Auyush are very fast swimmers. We are lucky to have them there. I thought Bloomy and I did very well, although we both only got one ribbon. It gets harder when you are older. The race was memorable. It was my first race going to somewhere that far.

Swimming team Captain Rose Grade 5

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