ISM Athletics

Week 15 Nov 18-22, 2024

This past weekend we hosted the local league HS basketball/tennis invitationals at ISM and our HS Rugby/Touch and Swim teams traveled to Taipei and Singapore for competition. Well done to all teams. 

A brief synopsis from Coach Hazel from the IASAS vs APAC meet at SAS this past weekend...Despite the delays caused by lightning alerts and the challenges of racing on a travel day, our mighty Bearcat swimmers were in top form and gave their best in every event. Out of the 14 girls on the team, 11 broke their personal bests event after event. Most of their pb's were set at last week’s Fall Meet, and breaking them again this weekend is pretty amazing. 

The boys’ team also had an outstanding performance, ranking number two overall, with 12 out of 13 swimmers achieving personal bests. Zayden Ramos broke his own school record in 50m Freestyle. The meet atmosphere was excellent The swimmers were cheering for each other on pool deck, visualizing their race strategy, offering encouragement, and actively seeking coaches' feedback after their events. Team ISM Bearcats set 62 personal best times—a remarkable accomplishment early in our season!

Our gymnastics team participated in the Aquazorb meet Sunday Nov 17. We hope all gymnasts taking part had a great competition. Results summary is posted on the gymnastics page of the website along with some photos supplied by a parent. Well done gymnasts!

This week we have HS S2 Friday Night Lights to look forward to. Brent will be here for Basketball, Faith for Touch and BSM for Rugby. See flyer below and the game schedule for exact details regarding match times and venues.

Saturday Brent is hosting their fall swim meet. Good luck to all the Sailfish swimmers who will take part on Saturday racing at Brent!

On campus this Saturday we are hosting Tennis/Touch/Basketball and Rugby local league matches. Check the game schedule via the parent portal for details.

If your children are involved in sports the athletic website is where all information is posted. Please check the weekly website post which is also updated and included in every Friday parent bulletin to stay up to date with sport happenings at ISM. All weekday and weekend fixtures are posted on the game schedule so check the game schedule via the parent portal carefully as events/times can change on short notice. Coaches will advise players at training sessions of upcoming matches and what time to report on game days.

The ISM Athletics website is the ‘one stop site’ for all athletics information. Bookmark this site to keep up to date with all our Athletics happenings at ISM. Parents and students please take some time to peruse the Athletics website. It has a wide variety of information on our sports program. If you are a new family and you have any questions regarding the competitive program of sports at ISM after reading the website information please send an email to pekinm@ismanila.org. New HS students and parents can find out more about IASAS HERE 

The seasonal and year round practice schedules throughout the school year are posted on the SCHEDULES page. 

Game schedule via the parent portal is the way to keep up to date with match fixtures. *All match fixtures will be added to the Athletics game schedule which is updated regularly by Rhyss Nora (Athletics Coordinator). The schedule gives the most up to date information on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing. Parents: access the game schedule by using your SSO to the ISM parent portal then click on the athletics game schedule icon to gain access to the latest updated version of the game schedule. Please note the schedule does change often, so check it regularly for the most up to date information. *Due to ISM security access to the game schedule must be routed via the parent portal and should not be shared with external parties.

Let's go Bearcats!

Upcoming events-

Nov 22- S2 FNL (Friday Night Lights) Basketball vs Brent/Rugby vs BSM/Touch vs Faith

Nov 23 Brent Fall swim meet/Rd #2 PSYL Rugby at ISM/Rd #3 TAP Touch at ISM/ISSA Basketball at ISM/ISTA Tennis at ISM

Nov 30 Rd #3 PSYL Rugby at ISM/Rd #4 TAP Touch at ISM/ISSA Basketball at ISM/ISTA Tennis at ISM

Dec 6-8 HS Varsity Basketball teams to SAS for Homecoming Invitational Basketball

Dec 7  Rd #4 PSYL Rugby at ISM/Rd #5 TAP Touch at ISM/ISSA Basketball at ISM/ISTA Tennis at ISM

Dec 9-12 HS ICARE week training for Varsity teams only during ICARE week

Jan 18 IASAS Chess online competition

Jan 23-25 S2 IASAS Tennis at ISM/Basketball at ISKL/Swimming at TAS/ Rugby & Touch at ISB

Jan 27-29 HS S3 tryouts

Jan 29-31 MS S3 tryouts