PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Commitment, gratitude, and courage are just three of the ISB Values displayed by our students, coaches, and community members throughout this year in Athletics. We have continued to push the limits of what has been possible throughout a challenging time and remain committed to excellence no matter the situation.

In the 2021-22 school year, students engaged in three complete athletics seasons and also had opportunities to participate in end-ofseason Bangkok Metropolitan Athletics Conference (BMAC) events. BMAC is a new athletics conference that ISB co-founded last year to increase our students’ opportunities to play.

This year, we led the way in hosting local competitions for the wider Bangkok region and Asia. ISB Athletics continued our commitment and dedication to our Interscholastic Association of Southeast Asian Schools (IASAS) family by hosting a Virtual IASAS Golf Event. It was the first IASAS Athletics event in the past two years, with fifty-two golfers from all six schools coming together across the region to participate in this tournament.

Additionally, Athletics was busy offering an ever-expanding program to our students this year. We significantly expanded our athletic offerings for Under 11 students as record numbers of elementary students joined our athletics programs, building our capacity for younger athletes. Nine different programs and opportunities were added to the offerings for this group of students, and we are excited to see them representing ISB.

As with most of our activities at ISB, this year’s difficult times highlighted our internal structures and capabilities. For example, high school students have become certified lifeguards and aquatics instructors through our own aquatics program, internal curricular courses, and after-school certification courses - gaining valuable experience coaching and mentoring elementary school students during afterschool swim programs.

Competitively, our team is also capable of running sizable internal swim meets for all ages. These meets helped prepare all our swimmers (ages 5-18) for larger multi-team external meets when those opportunities arrived. This past year external swim meets were not plentiful, but our current BMAC structure provided our swimmers with three USA college structured duel meets with the other two BMAC schools. These were small short competitions emphasizing individual improvement and not total team points. ISB also qualified and fielded its largest team for Thailand’s National Championships.

The Athletics Department is excited for the 2022-23 school year and the return of even more competitions and events.