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G7U Girls Basketball

– 2 Championships!

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hat a terrific season the G7U Girls Basketball team had. We not only did they win the AISAA League, the girls also won the AISAA Tournament that had non-league teams as well.

We had an A Team and a B Team because there were so many Grade 6 students from last year’s G5U team.

Coach Mari had two player call ups for each AISAA League game. That allowed almost all twenty girls to experience playing on the team in a real game situation!

The team loves 3-1-1 defense. It definitely gave us the edge, as the guards would intercept or steal the Quotes from G7U Players: ball time and time again!

“We worked hard and practiced a lot for the At the AISAA Tournament we won our group stage matches and tournaments, we couldn’t have done and then it came down to the final game against KIS. it without teamwork or the coaches help.”

KIS fought back and almost tied the game in the last minute but Tasha received a pass, scored the basket and the Dragons won by four points.

Incredibly, we never lost one game all season!

The girls went from being last the year before to winning it all this season!

Congratulations!!!

Coach Mari and Coach Ailene

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“U7 Girls Basketball team won both the AISAA league champions and the tournament championship! Each girl worked hard and practiced a lot for the matches and tournaments, we couldn’t have done it without teamwork and Coach Mari’s help.”

“I am very proud of what the team has accomplished too! Practicing new methods helped us a lot and we wouldn’t have achieved anything if the Coaches didn’t help us.”

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G5U and G3U

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Track and Field had a terrific season. It began the second week of school, with practices taking place on Wednesdays and Fridays after school. In total, we had 51 participants with 41 qualifying and participating in the AISSA Athletics Meet on November 21st!

Track and Field

We had so many incredible individual performances from both Grade 5Us and Grade 3Us team members.

The Concordian Dragons won over 30 medals, including two silver relay medals by the Grade 5U girls relay team and the Grade 3U boys team!Concordian won 3rd place overall for the Grade 3 Under Team, as well as 3rd place for the Grade 5 Under Team, one point behind second place. Concordian was full of character and we won the SPIRIT AWARD for cheering for everyone and showing great sportsmanship! Way to go Dragons!

A sincere thank you to all the parents that helped support the team throughout the entire season and the day of the BIG meet!

Coach Mari, Coach Jared, and Coach Ailene

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he Concordian Golf Team attended the second of three Nick Faldo golf series events in Hua Hin December 5-7. We took our 5 best players to compete and all of them played well. Pei Pei from the 6th grade won first place in the girls competition with an amazing score of 2 over par for two days. While there is no prize for lowest overall score, we could not help but celebrate the fact that Pei Pei's score was even lower by two shots than the winner of the boys competition.

Coach Michael

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The team score was good enough to win first place in the nett team score competition and this is the second event in a row that we have won that event. Kirk (6th grade) placed third in his category (boys under 11). Puthip (12th grade and team captain) placed second in his category (boys under 18). It was a fantastic event, the course was beautiful and although the winds were strong and challenging, our kids were up for the challenge and I am very proud of all of them. It is a great pleasure to work with such dedicated young athletes. Go Dragons!

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G10U Girls Football

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he G10 and Under Girls team had a great season. We performed very well in the league, going undefeated, and finishing in a 3-way draw.

We were unlucky to tie the home games against both Berkeley and Wells. We really deserved to win! After losing a playoff game against Berkeley we finished in Second place with Wells.

The best performance of the team was at the AISAA Tournament, where we were Champions!

There was a brilliant group stage performance and we won in a close final against Wells by penalties.

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Team members included: Lina and Grace (Grade 8); Gail, Jean, Khim, Tonnam, Mim, Great, Natalie, Pruw, Earn, and Lerler (Grade 9).

Coach Toni

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Grade 10U Boys Football T

he Grade 10U Boys football team had a difficult season but it was not without trying.

The boys only had 7 players for some games.

However, they put their hearts into every game and often ran until they collapsed under the hot, Bangkok sun.

This was the last year of coaching my great defense of Sun, Pun Pun (Grade 10) and A-Bond.

We had four years of victories, some trophies and medals, and some really good memories. Sun was my captain for four years and he always gave everything he had out there and he will always be a leader in life.

The team started well, with three victories, but the pivotal game with EIS ended in a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat despite many good chances to win.

Then in the last match, a must-win vs MUIDS, the team again only had seven players and two were nursing injuries and so they fell 2-0.

Tonnam and Stephen led this team again in offense and they gave the other team so many problems with our counter attacks. Usually they were the best players on the pitch for both teams.

Pun Pun (Grade 9) had to do most of the running in defensive midfield and he proved himself to be In the Cup, all of the teams went through a very fit once again thanks to his hobby of running grueling schedule on a boiling hot day. marathons. He also added more offense to his game and scored some nice goals.

Concordian played their best football of the season and went through 5 games unbeaten in Act was brilliant in goal and even improved from 3 hours. They came out of that haze in first place last year. He made a lot of timely and athletic with 3 wins and 2 draws. The boys went on to the saves. final and fatigue and injuries took their toll and they fell 1-0 to their nemesis MUIDS in the final. Thee and Kimi were injured for a lot of the But I was very proud of the boys: playing through season but when they were there, they battled, ran pain and running on tired legs on an incredibly like crazy, played all positions, tackled hard and scorching day. provided good defensive cover especially during the Cup when we only gave up 3 goals in 6 games.

Tin Tin was our newest member, and being a great basketball player it was a learning experience for him but he stuck with it and really improved as a defender. Thanks to all the boys for their effort, spirit, and commitment. It was a fantastic year considering the small squad we had.

Coach Neil

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Varsity Girls Football

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n a far away, remote and hidden corner of Samut Prakarn (actually not that far, remote or even hidden because pretty much right behind Mega Bangna and a stone’s throw from Ikea) there is a girls’ soccer team. They practice and play on a nice, big beautiful patch of natural grass right behind the Ikea sign.

This team was not like other teams.

First of all, they have always played in a division older than their age and thus, always played against bigger, stronger, faster and meaner girls. Second of all, they This year we scored two timely goals only had nine players...yes...nine. from Jaifah and Jade and on the day, we These nine girls put their heart and soul into won two games and drew two games the team. Special mention must go to Jaifah and won our group. However, despite and Bei Bei who sometimes came out three dominating the semi-final game it ended up going to Penalties and we missed the times a week. penalty kicks. The season goes on though The season started well, mostly because as we now start preparation for Earth Day we did not have to drive the seven hours tournament! to Mahidol but we met our opponents at home and won 3-1. Jaifah scored twice and I want to thank Jaifah (who emerged into Jade scored on her debut! Then we had a a star), Wendy (the new ‘healthy lifestyle’ friendly match at ICS. It was a long, grueling and VSCO inspiration to younger kids), and physical game in which we played a tough Bei Bei (who learned how to dive to make BISAC team and only lost 2-1 with an own saves), Shana (who stopped putting her goal against us and Jaifah scoring one into hands up in the penalty box), Bam Bam their net. Another friendly followed vs a Thai (who came back from England), Freya soccer academy and that ended in a (who can kick the ball super far), Amm 0-0 draw in which we had most of the (who learned how to be aggressive), Jade possession and missed a penalty. (for never playing before and learning fast), Lisa (for being so fearless and never forgetting her shin guards), and last but not least, Moma (for coming to support the team all year long even though she was injured and out for the season). We had another fantastic and fun season and it is not over yet!

Coach Neil

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We had the toughest game after that vs Berkeley and we knew this was one we had to win and we went up 1-0 from another Jade goal but lost a heartbreaker 2-1 in the last 5 minutes.

However, no excuses and so, fair play and congratulations to Berkeley, their coach, and their incredible star player because they were deserved winners of this league, outplaying every team by a wide margin all year. We followed that up with three straight wins over Wells, EIS and KIS! We were looking great going into the tournament.