The Sunday Leader » Swimming http://www.thesundayleader.lk Unbowed and Unafraid Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:20:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Visakha Swimming Champion http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/03/14/visakha-swimming-champion/ http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/03/14/visakha-swimming-champion/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:38:15 +0000 admin http://www.thesundayleader.lk/?p=9172 Udara Cumaratunga of Jayathilake House was hailed as the Under 19 Age Group Champion at the Visakha Vidyalaya Inter House Swimming Meet 2010 held recently. She has been the champion of her age group since 2000. She emerged Open Champion in 2006, 2007, 2008 and Joint Champion in 2009 with Nadeera Jayasekera.
Udara has brought honour to the school by winning the Best Swimmers Award at the Sri Lanka Schools Swimming and Diving Championships and at the National Sports Festival in 2009.
Udara represented Sri Lanka at the Chennai 2006, South Asia Swimming and Water Polo Championships 2007, the 6th AASF Asian Age Group Championships 2009 and the South Asian Games 2010 in Dakha, Bangladesh.
Meanwhile  Weerasooriya House emerged champions, with 363 points, at Visakha Vidyalaya’s annual Inter House Swimming Meet held at the School’s Swimming Complex.  Dawes House (346 points) and Dias House (324 points) were adjudged second and third respectively.
The Visakhian swimmers are guided by Teacher-in-Charge  Jayani Jayaweera and trained by Coach Nishantha de Costa. Chief Guest on the occasion was Ms. Asangi Wijesundere, a champion swimmer and former Visakha Water Polo Captain.
Several invited schools such as Methodist College, Sirimavo Bandaranaike Vidyalaya, Lyceum and Holy Family Convent Bambalapitiya added colour to the meet.

]]> http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2010/03/14/visakha-swimming-champion/feed/ 0 Kingswood Aquatic Club Swimming Championship http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2009/11/14/kingswood-aquatic-club-swimming-championship/ http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2009/11/14/kingswood-aquatic-club-swimming-championship/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:30:42 +0000 admin http://www.thesundayleader.lk/?p=1774 Kingswood swimming champion receiving the challenge shield from chief guest Oliver Nanayakkara. Also in the picture, Teacher in Charge of Swimming Ms. Gothami

Kingswood swimming champion receiving the challenge shield from chief guest Oliver Nanayakkara. Also in the picture, Teacher in Charge of Swimming Ms. Gothami

Kingswood College Kandy’s fifth Annual Provincial Swimming Championships was held on November 7-8 at the Kingswood College swimming pool, under the patronage of Principal Ranjith Chandrasekera. Contenders from 55 government and private schools of the Central Province took part in the event organised by the Kingswood Aquatic Club.

Kingswood Aquatic presently has 1000 ‘gentlemen’ of Kingswood (present students) as members. Membership is open to students from grade 1 to 13. In addition Kingswood Aquatic Club has over 750 students from over 50 schools in the region.

Kingswood College, one of the most prominent schools in the island, has produced great citizens to mother Lanka for over 114 years.  Kingswood College is also credited with introducing school rugby in Sri Lanka.

Kingswood has a tradition of addressing its present and old boys as “Gentlemen of Kingswood”. Year 2004, was another milestone year for the Gentlemen of Kingswood, in which year the Kingswood Union (Old Boys Association) celebrated 100 years of service to its alma mater.

The Centenary Committee of the Kingswood Union, with the visionary leadership of the present Principal Ranjith Chandrasekera, built the beautiful swimming pool within the college promises, along with a state of the art language laboratory which is another first by Kingswood College.

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