AIS Sports Report By Sports Boosters Madison Scott, All Region Saturday, February 20, Madison Scott was on hand for the Region Championship at Whitefield. She was not there to watch the great basketball being played, but to receive an award. Our Junior Center was awarded to her second All Region Team. Our Lady Eagles play in an extremely tough region. They play such teams as Pace, Whitefield and Southwest Atlanta Christian. It is a testament to Madison’s talent and hard work, to be honored. Madison averaged 17 points and 10.3 rebounds a game. She turned it on towards the end of the season. Madison is being recruited by LSU, Tulane, North Florida, GSU and other schools. This honor was a great way to end a tough season. Coach Richardson believes if she works hard this season and polishes her leadership skills, All American honors is not out of the realm of possibilities. Thanks Madison for all your hard work! We look forward to next year.
Spring Sports Spring Sports are under way at AIS. For the first time in school history, the school is offering a golf, an ultimate frisbee and a varsity tennis team. Last year we offered JV and MS Tennis teams. Led by Neil Spencer and Serge Petitpre, our kids were competitive and proved we were ready for the next step. Coach Serge Petitpre leads the Eagles Tennis team into their first ever varsity season. The team will send the top seven boys and seven girls to four matches against local schools. Our home court is Bitsy Grant Tennis Center, located at Bobby Jones golf course on Northside Drive. Eleanor Ratchford and Karen Manidis take the place of Neil Spencer. We had the most student involvement in the history of the school. More than 40 students turned out for the first practice. All but ten of the US team members are freshmen and sophomores. Tennis is on the rise! Coach Albright had been toying with the idea of offering a golf team for years. Without the right coach and not enough golfers at the school, he passed on it. When David Bell, a professional golfer from Australia, agreed to coach the team, he decided it was time to introduce golf to the spring line up. In our inaugural season, the team has a great shot at making some noise. Seniors David Collura and Junior Christoph Koehler have under a 1.5 handicap each and should lead the team. Sarah McKenney James Ford and Marcus Kiessling will compete for a strong third and fourth score. Even a handful of MS students decided to come out for the team. Although they are too young to compete on a varsity team according to GHSA, they are working hard at polishing their techniques. The future of the golf program is looking bright! Trevor Pendergast, a teacher of geography and history, and Jennifer Pendergast, a teacher of visual arts, have been advocates of an ultimate frisbee team since their arrival at AIS three years ago. Last year they started a club team and because of a large turn out, decided with Coach Albright to open the sport to the school and start the program. As a result, ultimate has become another new sport offered at AIS. Ultimate is a rapidly growing sport in Atlanta and around the world; it is a sport that takes high skill, fast reaction time and split-second decision making to perform at a high level. Under the Pendergast leadership, the team is learning the game. In the first ever game played by AIS, Ryan Kristensen passed to Peter Beach to score the first point. They went on to lose the match, but the Pendergast vision has come to life. Thanks to the Pendergasts and their vision! With more than twenty student participants, ultimate is going to be here for a long time! These three teams join MS Tennis, MS and US track, MS Girls, JV Boys and Varsity Boys and Girls Soccer as Atlanta International Schools’ spring sports.
Atlanta International School Newsletter / April 2009 • Globetrotter
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