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It was an outstanding weekend for Tigers Athletics! The Swim Team went to the Zone Championships and brought home gold. The Junior Field Hockey Team came first in their division, and lost a nail-biter on Thursday after 2 rounds of shoot outs to bring home Silver. The Grade 8 Volleyball Team brought home Gold from ISAs, and our Senior Volleyball Team followed with ISA Gold as well!

Sr. Volleyball Team Wins Gold Medal at ISAs

Our Senior Volleyball team captured the Gold medal at ISAs for the first time since 2001. The girls played tremendously with gutsy performances by everyone, especially Laura W. who had the flu, to defeat Crofton in 3. This was sweet redemption for the girls after a disappointing loss last weekend to Crofton at Westerns. It is also the first Gold won by a Senior Tigers team in a number of years and the girls are VERY excited (as is their coach!).

We will have a presentation at our next assembly (in two weeks) but please do congratulate them, and also congratulate our three juniors that helped the team get to the finals (Megan W., Courtney W., and Michelle L.).

We have 3 games this week so if you’d like to see some good volleyball come and cheer them on. We play at WPGA on Monday, at home vs. STM on Tuesday (5pm), and our senior night is on Wednesday vs St. Pats (3:30 game).

Thanks for all your support!
Chris Ruse, Coach

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Senior Tigers Swim Team Wins 7th Straight Zone Championship

The Senior Tigers Swim Team had a very successful day, thoroughly dominating the competition in the pool at UBC, and winning their 7th-straight Vancouver/Richmond Zone Championship. Of the 32 team members, 20 qualified for the Provincial Championships in 11 relay and 10 individual events.

The Provincial Championships will be held Nov 16-17 at Watermania in Richmond and at that meet, the Tigers will be seeking their 3rd straight Provincial Team Banner.

Thank you for your support so far this season,
Scott-Ryan Abt, Coach

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Grade 8 Volleyball Team Wins Second Straight Gr. 8 ISA Championship

While the swimming team was dominating the pool our Grade 8 Tigers were cleaning up on the volleyball court at ISAs!

Congratulations to Alek and his Grade 8 team for winning our second straight Gr. 8 ISA Championship.

What a weekend in sports!

Here’s a re-cap on the Gr. 6 trip Camp Summit from Catarina. This camp is part of our Outdoor Education program.

Forty excited, noisy, chattering students were on the bus to Camp Summit. When we got there we had lunch, during which we did a food waste challenge, followed by free time.

What’s the big hit for free time? Gaga Ball! The rules are simple. When you hit the ball with two hands you have to say “gaga”. You are out when the ball hits your waist or below. We all had a blast playing Gaga Ball! Another game we played was called Survival. There were 3 teams: Herbivore (the most fun), Omnivore and Carnivore (the luckiest).

When we weren’t playing games, we were doing activities and they had the best activities ever. There was hiking, canoeing (where we played canoe tag), mountain biking to a beautiful river and fire building, which isn’t as easy as it sounds. Other activities were rock climbing, high ropes, where if you went on the wooden beam you could hang upside down by your legs (it was about 10m above the ground) and archery, where some girls were experts and other girls couldn’t even hit the target.

One time we had choice of activities and one of the choices was low ropes. The low rope group had to get blindfolded and find a knot. When they tried to find the knot they accidentally stepped in a wasp’s nest! Yes, there were some bee stings!

After we finished after-dinner games we would go to a campfire where we sung quite odd songs and performed short skits. The last thing on the “to do” list was to go to bed, which we did very late. Camp Summit was a great experience.

Sounds like like the camp was an amazing (and busy) experience. Thanks for sharing!

Author: YHS

A Gold Weekend for the Tigers

A Wild Trip to Camp Summit