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Sports at Xavier's |
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SPORTSMAN’S OATH |
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We promise
that we will take part in this annual athletic meet of St.
Xavier’s High School in loyal competition, respecting the
regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in
them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our
school and country and the glory of sport. |
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ANNUAL
SPORT REPORT 2004-2005 |
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St.
Xavier’s created history this year by winning 16 trophies in SPORTS
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Winning is the tradition of St. Xavier’s High School, Fort. The
school continues to produce great results with dynamic performances in
athletics, football, carrom, table-tennis, swimming at various
tournaments. At the MSSA Inter School Athletic Meet. This year once
again our school won the prestigious |
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The Tata
Challenge Shield for the school with the highest aggregate total
points scored jointly in all Divisions for Boys |
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Hosey A.
Mistry Memorial Trophy for the school with the highest aggregate total
points scored in the Senior Divisions for Boys |
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The A.R.M.
Sidiki Memorial Challenge Shield for the school with the highest
aggregate total points scored in the Intermediate Division for Boys |
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The Ahmed
Sailor Challenge Shield for the school with the highest aggregate
total points scored jointly in the Junior, Sub-Juniors and Midgets
Division for Boys |
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D. R.
Kate Memorial Trophy to the Winner of the 400M Run Boys Inters |
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Merwyn
Jacobie Memorial Trophy to the winner of the 800M Run for the Boys
Inters (Under – 14 Years) |
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The
Gainchand R. Bahl March Past Trophy for the team adjudged the best
Boys Team in the March Past during the Opening and Closing Ceremonies
of the Championships |
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Late D.
B. Puthran Trophy for Individual Champion for Intermediates Boys |
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Our
athletes assured victories and won five Team Championships in the
following meets |
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Mumbai
City Meet |
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MSSA SBI
Inter-School Meet |
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YMCA Meet |
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Catholic
Gymkhana Meet |
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Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana Meet |
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The
following won Individual Championships |
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Nand
Nalawde at the Mumbai City Meet |
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Rahul
Chikle at the Catholic Gymkhana Meet |
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Yash
Mhambrey at the Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana Meet and at the Catholic
Gymkhana Meet he won the Best Athlete award |
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Sagar
Sorathi won the best athlete award as well as individual championships
at the Willingdon Catholic Meet, Catholic Gymkhana Meet and MSSA Meet |
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The following boys
were selected to represent Mumbai City for the Junior and Sub-Junior
State Meet to be held at Pune.
Sagar Sorathi,
Nirmal Kabre, Nishant Kole, Krishna Dussera, Niraj Shah, Sanat Shah,
Yash Mhambrey, Devesh Poojari, Shubham Samel, Harsh Vyas, Nand Nalawde
and Vedant Jathar. Mr. Alex Fernandes our Sports Director was asked
to accompany the team as the Coach of the Mumbai City team assisted by
Mr. Peter Pereira as the Manager
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Outstanding
performances were made by the following boys :-
Faisal Sable,
Tejas Kamath, Rahul Naidu, Sagar Sorathi, Krishna Duserra, Shubham
Samel, Yash Mhambrey, Meet Sampat, Darshit Thakkar, Nand Nalawde,
Rahul Chikle, Yugshresth Jain, Harsh Vyas
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This
year our athletes in the under-6 age group created history at the
Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana Meet. Out of the 12 athletes from our
school, eight of them made it to the finals of the 100 metres race
among the 64 competitors. |
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Our
School won many medals and certificates and the Over-all Championships
in various meets |
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137th
Annual sports was held on December 7th, 2005 at the
University Stadium, Marine Lines. Our Chief Guest was our Ex-Xavierite
– Mr. Adrian de Souza |
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Our individual Champions were
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Std I
- Amay Nijsure |
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Midget - Nand
Nalawde |
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Sub-Junior
- Yash Mhambre |
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Junior -
Durgesh Tiwari |
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Inters - Sagar
Sorathi |
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Seniors - Faisal
Sable |
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The
Best Athlete of the Meet was Sagar Sorathi and the most promising
athlete was Faisal Sable |
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The
Inter House March Past was won by Tilak House and Tug-O-War was won by
Nehru House and the over-all Championship was won by Tagore House |
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FOOTBALL |
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At
the Inter-School District Tournament the Under-14 team won the 1st
place (winner) and 2nd place at the District level Subroto
Mukherjee Tournament. At the A and B Ward level the Under-14 won the
1st place (winner) |
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At
the MSSA Inter-school league tournament the under-14 were winners
beating Don Bosco (Matunga) and in the Utpal Sanghvi Tournament they
beat St. Francis D’Assisi to win the title. Once again this year our
footballers too, creating history beating St. Francis D’Assisi School,
(Borivli) at three occasions |
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Under
– 14: Performed well winning four tournaments out of the five |
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Under-12 : Won most of the matches and remained unbeaten |
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Under-10 : Won all the matches and remained unbeaten |
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Under-8 ; Won all the league matches and lost in the second round of
the knock-out stage |
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With
the outstanding performance of the team, seven of our boys were called
for the MSSA camp as well as for the Mahindra United Junior Team
selection out of which two of boys namely Sagar Sorathi and Gallaghar
made it to the last 25 players in the final phase |
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Some
of the outstanding football players were |
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Under
– 8 : Anish Jadhav, Ainesh Mehta |
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Under
– 10 : Thomas Alphonso, Yash Mhambrey |
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Under
– 12 : Lawrence Betgeri, Ludovic Pereira |
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Under
– 14 : Sagar Sorathi, Samrat Golhar, Benson Fernandes |
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Under
– 16 : Rahul Naidu, Rahul Tiwari, Egypsio Noronha |
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VOLLEYBALL |
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At
the MSSA tournament, our under – 14 team lost in the quarterfinal |
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BASKETBALL |
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In
the mini tournament our team entered the quarterfinal. |
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CARROM |
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In
the MSSA tournament, two of our boys won the silver and bronze medal
in the under-16 age group |
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TABLE
TENNIS |
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Pratik Pallicha made it to the fourth round of the Inter School
tournament |
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SWIMMING |
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Dhruv
Thakker of the Under-17 age group has won many medals in the following
events |
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DSO MEET (DISTRICT) |
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Gold
Medal in 800 Meters freestyle |
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Gold
Medal in 50 Meters freestyle |
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Silver Medal in 200 Meters freestyle |
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Inter
School DSO Meet |
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Silver Medal in 800 meters freestyle |
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Bronze Medal in 400 meters freestyle |
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A
regular highlight at St. Xavier’s is the Summer Coaching Camp which
attracts students not only of our school but also from other schools.
Training is provided by professionals in the following sports :
FOOTBALL, CRICKET, ATHLETICS, BASKETBALL AND BADMINTON |
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Best
All Round Cricketer : Ramanuj Verma |
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Sportsman of the year : Faisal Sable |
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I
would like to thank the Management, the teaching and non – teaching
staff, the Class IV workers, the PTA, various coaches – Loyala Lobo,
Peter Pereira, Cajetan Noronha, Derrick D’Souza, Mansoor Shaikh, Anil
Takle, Abdulla Sapatwala and ex-students for their help, support and
co-operation |
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A
sincere thanks to my team member Mrs. Margaret Acharya of the Primary
Section and Mr. Dilip Correia for their assistance and encouragement |
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