Pursuers of Dreams Banquet - A Class Act

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.

●      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.

●      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.

●      We successfully defended the Little Angels Swimming Championships.

●      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.

●      Our Boys’ Volleyball were also SAISA champions! This is a record 8 SAISA titles for Boys’ Volleyball.

●      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.

●      An astonishing 62 School Swimming Records broken this year, including 3 SAISA records.

●      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.

●      We were one of three SAISA schools to participate in the Tennis invitational in Mumbai.

●      We attended an MUN conference in Holland and hosted a small MUN conference

●      We hosted the MathCounts convention with a number of schools participating in the region and had a gold medalist in the individual round.

●      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.

●      We participated in SAISA Art for the first time in two years.

●      Our Badminton team improved on last year’s showing and continues to grow, finishing 6th out of 10 teams.

●      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.

●      SAISA Track and Field had some wonderful individual performances despite traveling with a young and inexperienced team.

●      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.

●      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

Snow Leopards Stay on Track in Colombo!

Snow Leopards Stay on Track in Colombo!

SAISA Track & Field was a very extraordinary experience. Although we had a small team this year, we made the best of it, and worked as hard as we could. I believe that all our hard work paid off in Colombo; we survived the blazing heat, and the very tiring plane ride there and back. We all stuck together like a team and we conquered our fears and personal best times together.

There were many memorable experiences from our time in Colombo. For example, watching Coach Craig run as the anchor of the SnowGeckos in the coaches relay! We also had some amazing wins for our team: Zoja Mancek won gold in the 15-19 girls high jump, and Isabella Murphy who won both the 10-12 girls 3000m and 1500m runs, as well as winning silver in the 800! The Powell sisters did incredibly as well, with Izzy Powell winning the girls 10-12 long jump and earning bronze in the 1500, while Niamh Powell won silver in the 400m. For the boys, Tomas Sharkey came 5th for the 10-12 800m and earned a bronze in the 3000!

We definitely improved on our performances from last year. During SAISA, we were half the size of the other teams, but the fight we put up and our energy was enormous. Our overall experience was amazing and I am lucky to have shared one of my favorite SAISAs with this particular group of people, and I’m excited for what’s to come from our team next year.

Akshara Singh

LS Ready to Host SAISA Boys' Basketball!

After a very successful SAISA Swimming Championships in October, Lincoln is all set to host its 2nd big SAISA event of the year - Boys' Basketball - this April 20-22.

The Snow Leopards are defending champions and will play the first game of the tournament vs TAISM on Thursday, April 20 at 9.00 am, just following the Opening Ceremony.

All the live action can be followed on our tournament blog here:
http://saisa-boys-basketball.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html

Results will be posted here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A6pjDzq28OjKt8Q8_HYpKPKDe3amnP2_2sKg-fA2hnc/edit?ts=58f59b50

Meanwhile, our Track and Field team will be competing at the Overseas School of Colombo, while our Girls' football team will be participating in the SAISA tournament hosted at the American School of Bombay.

Go Snow Leopards! 

AQUATHON IS A REAL FUNDRAISER!

AQUATHON IS A REAL FUNDRAISER!

Last Saturday, Lincoln School held the 2nd annual LS Aquathon. Students of all ages, parents, staff and supporters came out for a fun event that was also a fundraiser for our Service-Learning programs. The event involved a 1000 meter swim and a five kilometer run around our campus, including through the school halls and across rooftops and gyms! Swimmers and runners could choose to complete some or all of the total distance and could participate as individuals or teams. The purpose was to have fun, build community, raise funds for many of our important service programs, and do some exercise along the way. 

The event was a great success with almost 50 participants. Last year we were able to raise almost $1000 from this event and as we await for all the pledge money to come in, we are confident of a similar total this year. Thank you to our officials, Coach Yubraj, as well as our students, parents and staff members for participating and pledging funds to these important causes. It was great to see so many smiles and so many miles on a funD-filled day! 

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Luke Davis

Athletic Director

Lincoln School

P.O. Box 2673

Kathmandu, Nepal

ldavis@lsnepal.com

(M) +977-9851015676

2nd Lincoln School Aquathon

Calling all Lincoln School students, staff & parents!

This is your chance to participate in the 2nd LS Aquathon (1 km swim and 5 km run) held at Lincoln School on Saturday, March 18th from 12.00 to 2.00 pm

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Students and parents are encouraged to find rupee cash pledges for each lap they swim (40, 25m laps maximum), and each lap they run (10, 500m laps maximum). Begin collecting your pledges! 

Participants do not have to complete the entire distance, or can form a relay of any number of individuals in order to complete the entire distance. Family relays are encouraged! 

Funds raised will go towards our Service-Learning initiatives. 

This is NOT a race!

Please use the form below to sign-up:

https://docs.google.com/a/lsnepal.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyMG84hd6o2AnOY-_1TrVvaiaWOIQEKBbAM7MsaS6dvCRkXQ/viewform

See you on Saturday, March 18th!

2015-2016 Lincoln School Athletics Awards

2015-2016 Lincoln School Athletics Awards

Of 130 Secondary Students (Grades 6-12), 106 participated on SAISA sports teams this year. This is approximately 82% participation in our athletics program.

• The year began with the opening of our new Aquatics facility and hosting the 1st Lincoln School Swimming Championships, which we won!

• We were SAISA Girls’ Volleyball runners up, and that is the third year in succession that we have either won or been in the final.

• Our Boys’ volleyball team finished the SAISA tournament in 3rd place, an improvement since last year.   

• In the SAISA swim meet, our 15-18 girls won their division, while our overall girls team finished runners up.

•  An astonishing 24 School Swimming Records broken this year, including 2 SAISA records.

• SAISA Girls’ Basketball was hosted here and this was topped off with a fantastic 3rd place finish.

• In the Lincoln School established local league - NISSA - featuring other Nepali and international schools in Kathmandu - we were girls’ basketball champions!

•  Anthony Colavito won the singles SAISA boys tennis championships making him the best overall boys tennis player in SAISA. 

• Our young Boys’ football team showed improvement throughout the tournament, finishing 5th.

• Our Badminton team improved on last year’s showing and continues to grow.

• SAISA Girls’ Football team scored the most number of goals in the tournament with Karuna Sakya-Hooper scoring 10 on her own! They finished the tournament with 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.

• SAISA Track and Field had some wonderful individual performances despite traveling with a young and inexperienced team.

• SAISA Boys’ Basketball Tournament - we hosted it and we all know what happened there! A brilliant victory for Lincoln School to go on the back of winning the NISSA basketball championships as well.

• MS Male Athlete of the Year: Eskil Sundar

• MS Female Athletes of the Year: Karuna Sakya-Hooper & Sarya Thapa Magar

• HS Male Athlete of the Year: Suryansh Vaidya

• HS Female Athlete of the Year: Laura Herren

• Snow Leopards of the Year: Ana Maharjan & Avi Rajkarnikar

At the end of each year, I find myself both filled with pride and yet shaking my head in disbelief at our accomplishments. This small international school in the Kathmandu Valley continues to go to toe to toe with the best that our SAISA league, complete with schools 3 to 4 times our size, has to offer. How do we do it? Year after year, how do we find the Snow Leopard spirit to dig deep, and be examples to the rest of our sister schools about what it looks like to give your all, and win or lose with sportsmanship and dignity.

First of all, we have a program, a philosophy, founded in tradition, yes, but even more importantly in values like teamwork, humility, respect, balance, friendship, responsibility, and perseverance. We know that to achieve excellence we have to work, we have to try, we have to fail, we have to pick ourselves back up and try again even harder, and perhaps fail again, because that is what it takes to realize our potential. And we have support for this program - from everyone in this school - our drivers, custodians, teachers, teaching assistants, administrators and coaches.

Yes, coaches. We have teachers, coaches who care a great deal. They turn up to practice each day with the commitment to develop our athletes’ skills, but more importantly their character. They are skilled in and passionate about what they do and know what it takes to build successful teams. By success I do not just mean winning, but learning, growing, and improving day-by-day mentally, tactically and technically. Without the commitment of our coaches, this program would not exist. 

The final reason why we can be proud to be Lincoln Snow Leopards is because all of you are Lincoln Snow Leopards. You, our student-athletes, are wonderful ambassadors for our school and make us proud because of your desire to learn and improve as athletes and as people. You feel a sense of ownership of the program; a commitment to not only carry on our tradition and model our values, but also to build on, innovate and develop what has come before. You recognize that each individual has values and positive contributions to make and you work to help everyone feel respected and cared for. Everyone can try out for a team, everyone can work to become a Lincoln School Snow Leopard at this school. 

Student-athletes, it is you that we honor tonight. Your efforts, your skills, your growth, and your leadership deserve to be recognized. However, not all of you will walk away with a physical award tonight. What I want to tell you athletes is that it is not a failure to miss out on an individual award. Everyone here is part of a team and all of you have had a vital role to play in forming that team. So be proud of yourselves and the efforts you’ve made, and be proud of your teammates and the special qualities they brought to your team. We might not have the pool of students that the other big SAISA schools have, or even the locals in Kathmandu, but we succeed because we are one, we are one big TEAM and as the acronym on our gym wall reads, together everyone really does achieve more. Thank you.

Luke Davis

LS Track & Field Beats the Heat in Chennai!

Track & Field Team Conquers Heat and Breaks PBs in Chennai!

SAISA Track and Field was a memorable experience for our team. With a traveling team of 11 student-athletes, SAISA was a special experience. Our first steps in Chennai were overwhelming because of the heat, but we stepped on the track and gave it our best. At the end of each race, we were covered in sweat and filled with joy and excitement. From the hilarious coaches' relay to team bonding moments and the roaring crowds of support, this event was inspirational. Our team has grown incredibly since our first practice; not only can we now run fast, jump higher and throw further, but we've also developed our characters to keep pushing ourselves to learn and improve. We may have shared some tears, but the happiness of achieving our goals overcame us. Overall, even though we did not win, we were happy, as we all tried our best, and that's what matters. Finally, thank you to our coaches for their support and encouragement!

Akshara Singh

Follow the SAISA Action this weekend

Our third and final season for the calendar year is almost upon us with our girls' football, boys' basketball and track & field teams traveling to Dhaka, Chennai and Muscat respectively to compete on April 23-25. You can follow all the tournament action here:

Boys' Basketball in Chennai: http://www.saisaleague.org/chennai-2014-151.html

Girls' Football in Dhaka: http://www.aisdtigers.org/saisa-2015-girls-fball-aisd.html

Track & Field in Muscat: https://sites.google.com/a/taism.com/taism-saisa-tournaments/

Go Snow Leopards! 

SAISA Season 3 Tournaments Almost Upon Us

Our third and final season for the calendar year is almost upon us with our girls' football, boys' basketball and track & field teams traveling to Dhaka, Chennai and Muscat respectively to compete on April 23-25. You can follow all the tournament action here:

Boys' Basketball in Chennai: http://www.saisaleague.org/chennai-2014-151.html

Girls' Football in Dhaka: http://www.aisdtigers.org/saisa-2015-girls-fball-aisd.html

Track & Field in Muscat: https://sites.google.com/a/taism.com/taism-saisa-tournaments/

Go Snow Leopards!