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l Team NLCS
By Mr Jamie Williams
2021; the year that sport resumed at NLCS Dubai and what an exciting, enjoyable and memorable term it has been! In curriculum PE, we have covered sports from football to netball, swimming to badminton, rugby to basketball and provided more opportunity than ever for students to take part in sport. In October, we accepted the Dubai Fitness Challenge 30x30 and saw staff and students take part in weekly challenges such as 500m rowing, kettlebell hold, running and burpee challenges. A big thank you to the NLCS Dubai community for participating and trying yourself out, the NLCS PE Department could not be prouder. It has been an exciting, long- awaited and successful return to sport xtures here at NLCS. After two years of DASSA xtures being on hold, we have been delighted to be a part of a safe, cautious and gradual return to competitive school sport.
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We are so proud to have been able to enter both A and B Teams in various age categories across a number of sports, such as, junior girls netball, junior boys football, senior girls football, senior basketball, cross- country and swimming. A huge well done and congratulations to all students who were selected to represent NLCS Dubai in these sports across the Junior and Senior School.
A special mention has to be made to our U9 and U11 Netball teams this term. They displayed great sportsmanship, competitiveness and dedication in all games. Congratulations to the U11 team who were undefeated all season and scored some great goals.
Congratulations to our U9 and U11 boys football teams, who competed against Hartland, GEMS WSO and Arcadia School. They trained hard every week, their team spirit has been amazing and they have continuously encouraged each other. They have worked tremendously hard on the skills to prepare for their xtures and we are looking forward to seeing them compete in the future, well done boys.
The Senior School boys and girls football teams also performed exceptionally well and played against various schools in the U12, U13, U14, U16 age categories. All teams showed fantastic skills and worked really hard as a team to give the opposing teams a highly competitive match, a huge well done to all of our footballers and coaches.
The U19 Boys Basketball and U16 Girls Basketball team have had an outstanding season. Not only did they show exceptional team work, communication and defending skills, but they had an undefeated season. What a start to the academic year and a memorable season at NLCS. Congratulations all. A particular highlight this term has not only been the return of curriculum swimming but the return of Swim Squads and Swim Galas. We were extremely excited to have hosted NLCS Dubai’s rst swimming gala against DESS in November and we would like to give a special mention to our star swimmers, Asjad and Sonny who were phenomenal during the gala. We cannot wait to see them and our swim squads continue to ourish in swimming throughout the rest of the academic year.
We also had more individual success at the Senior School cross- country competition which took place at the Dubai Sevens Stadium. Over 32 schools entered across a wide variety of age categories and we are extremely proud to announce that Laila Al Hamzi who nished 6th in the U15 Girls 3km event. An outstanding achievement and we are incredibly proud of Laila and our runners for the commitment and performance. This has all happened in one term and we are unbelievably excited to see what next term can bring. We can look forward to sports such as rugby, junior girls football, athletics, swimming, aquathlon, basketball and cricket; we can't wait! A huge thank- you to all students and staff for your time, passion and enthusiasm towards Team NLCS Dubai, we are extremely grateful. Keep active, stay healthy and we shall look forward to making many more memorable sporting moments in 2022.
