ISD Asianista Olympics Season 1: Day 2

         July 11, 2015 –ACT high school students geared up their sports attire and gathered in the school campus on a weekend to join the second day of the Asianista Olympics.

        At 8:00 a.m., the morning ceremony was followed by a yell competition participated by the five pre-arranged teams: green, blue, yellow, white, and red. Students were given ten minutes to practice and were expected to perform on the quadrangle.

       Chants, accompanied by dance steps, gave the students a head start before the main event of the day: the ball games competition.

At 9:15 a.m., events highlighted in the ball games competition started. These are the basketball boys, basketball girls and volleyball mixed, which were partaken by the students belonging to different levels.

       The basketball games were anticipated by the audience, shouts of encouragement filled the air as girls and boys passed the ball to and fro.

       In the volleyball games, audience kept their eyes locked on the ball and appreciated the receives and spikes countered by each team.

“It was nice, but I’m quite disappointed because I was not able to play volleyball,” Christian Alferez, a member of the white team, said as he watched the exchange between teams.

The green team rose as the volleyball mixed champions, defeating the red team in a neck by neck game.

      The basketball boys and basketball girls championships are to be continued in the following week.

The ball games competition follows the single elimination tournament process; therefore losing teams do not have a chance to participate a second game.

The Asianista Olympics is an event orchestrated by the SSG as a jumpstart for school year 2015-2016. It is conducted by SSG officers and the high school department faculty.

- Maria Eloisa Garcia

Photos by Jeanille Cogtas