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GIRLS RUGBY
The final stretch of this fantastic season took place at the HSBC Rosslyn Park school’s tournament where we were able to pull together two teams of girls at the last minute: an U16s and U19s team. Both teams represented the DC jersey with pride and showed what girls rugby here in Dubai is all about, playing against top UK schools who have been training months in advance for this tournament The U16s made it through to the quarterfinals out of 32 teams and the U19s came 3rd out of 66 teams losing to the winners in the semi-finals.
The main rugby term has now come to an end, and it was brilliant! Everyone that participated must be incredibly proud of what they have accomplished and for forming a real girls rugby legacy
The DC Swim Team ended the season with the DASSA Individual Swimming Championships at Hamdan Sports Complex. It was our most exciting competition yet as we brought together both our A team and B team, swimming against over 20 schools in Dubai. Throughout the day our swimmers achieved personal bests, school records and some even obtained times for national competitions. Overall, DC finished an impressive fourth due to the massive effort put in by our swimmers.
We want to thank each swimmer for their dedication, resilience and most importantly their positive attitude that they brought every time they stepped onto poolside. Thank you all so much, for providing us with the opportunity to represent DC as captains and we encourage all of you to keep pushing and challenge for further success in the following seasons. We also want to thank Mr Mosley and Mr Newman for helping lead the swim team - we wouldn’t be able to do any of this without them!
The DC tennis season has been one of the most competitive to date with numerous achievements across all age groups. Starting with the American School Dubai back in November, the team have come up against a wide array of schools from across the Middle East, both British and American.
The highlight so far for our seniors was competing in the ASD invitational, for schools across the Middle East. The boys suffered a narrow loss in the team finals whilst the girls went one better in securing an emphatic victory to bring home the title. In the individual portion of the competition, all 6 of our entrants into the boys categories finished 3rd or higher with Alex and Max going on to win their respective category. Our 6 girls entrants made 4 finals between them, clinching 3 victories with Sasha, Aditi and Cindy & Katie emerging as victors from the day
Moving down the age groups, our U16 and U14 players participated in the annual DASSA singles championships aiming to create foundations for the future. Our U14 girls gave a good showing with Sofia claiming 3rd place whilst Ela went all the way to the final before falling just short of the trophy and ending up 2nd place overall. In the U16 girl’s tournament, Mya managed her way to the semi-finals before bowing out. The U16 boys, however, proved the most successful with Alex, Max and Leo producing a historic DC one-two-three, exerting utter dominance over the rest of the field.
Overall, the DC tennis season, so far, has been filled with unbridled success. We have reinforced our status as the top performing British school in the country with our U18 girls also continuing their astounding 5-year unbeaten streak. Looking ahead, the culmination of the tennis season approaches with our internal championships set to round out the senior’s season to determine our very own Grand Slam contenders. Congratulations to Aadit, Ela, Alizeh and Aarav, who were winners in our internal junior tournament.
