On Saturday, May 6th, the Lincoln School gym was transformed into a picturesque ballroom with musical displays, athletic awards, videos and speeches and an opportunity to honor all our students who pursued dreams and participated in our co-curricular programs at Lincoln School this year.
The videos can be viewed here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9nyXr58kX11aTlUMmlQZGM3dUk
Here are some of the highlights:
Of 135 Secondary
Students (Grades 6-12), 115 tried out for our SAISA sports teams this year.
This is approximately 85% participation in our athletics program. We also sent
a large group of Musicians and Artists to Jordan and Chennai respectively,
attended a MUN conference in Holland, put on two secondary plays, and hosted a
MathCounts convention. Altogether, 85% of our student population represented
our school in one of these events, while almost 99% of our student population
participated in at least one after-school activity this year.
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The year began with hosting
NISSA boys’ and girls’ volleyball. Our boys won the tournament and our girls
finished runners-up to a club team.
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We hosted the 2nd Annual LS
Swimming Championships, which we won convincingly with many outstanding
performances, winning over 90 medals and many of the gold variety.
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We successfully defended
the Little Angels Swimming Championships.
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We were SAISA Girls’
Volleyball champions! For our girls’ team, this is the 4th year in succession
that we have either won or been in the final.
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Our Boys’ Volleyball were
also SAISA champions! This is a record 8 SAISA titles for Boys’ Volleyball.
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We hosted SAISA Swimming for
the first time in history; we won SAISA Swimming for the first time in history.
Our teams finished 2nd in the 10-12 girls, 10-12 boys, 13-14 boys and 15-19
boys and 1st in the 13-14 girls and 15-19 girls. We also finished 2nd in girls
overall and 1st in boys overall.
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An astonishing 62 School
Swimming Records broken this year, including 3 SAISA records.
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Our SAISA Girls’ Basketball
team had a fantastic 3rd place finish in Mumbai and made it to the finals of
the NISSA Championships we hosted.
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We were one of three SAISA
schools to participate in the Tennis invitational in Mumbai.
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We attended an MUN
conference in Holland and hosted a small MUN conference
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We hosted the MathCounts
convention with a number of schools participating in the region and had a gold medalist
in the individual round.
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Our Boys’ football team
showed improvement throughout the season, making the finals of the NISSA
Championships and the semi-finals of the SAISA Championships in Chennai.
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We participated in SAISA
Art for the first time in two years.
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Our Badminton team improved
on last year’s showing and continues to grow, finishing 6th out of 10 teams.
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Our SAISA Girls’ Football
team won the NISSA league and championships hosted at Lincoln, and then
traveled to Mumbai, where they reached the finals of the SAISA Girls’ Football
tournament.
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SAISA Track and Field had
some wonderful individual performances despite traveling with a young and
inexperienced team.
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We hosted the SAISA Boys’
Basketball Tournament again this year and our team made it all the way to the
final on the back of winning the NISSA basketball championships.
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Two successful secondary
play productions were performed.
MS Male Athlete of the Year: Alexander Gadegaard Shah
MS Female Athlete of the Year: Karuna Sakya-Hooper
HS Male Athlete of the Year: Avi Rajkarnikar
HS Female Athlete of the Year: Shreetika Singh
Snow Leopard Award: Mackenzie Scheer
MS Male Athlete of the Year: Alexander Gadegaard Shah
MS Female Athlete of the Year: Karuna Sakya-Hooper
HS Male Athlete of the Year: Avi Rajkarnikar
HS Female Athlete of the Year: Shreetika Singh
Snow Leopard Award: Mackenzie Scheer
