Successful International Basketball Coaches Clinic

On May 10 - 12, the 4th International Basketball Coaches Clinic took place at ACS Athens.  The guest speakers were:  Jerrod Calhoun (Fairmont State University), Doug Bruno (DePaul University), Tony Barone, Sr. (NBA, Memphis Grizzlies), and Giannis Sfairopoulos (Panionios BC).  The sessions started on Friday late afternoon and ended on Sunday with our short thank you ceremony!

The majority of our varsity basketball players also had the opportunity to be involved by being on the court as "demonstration players" and it was a great experience for them!

This event is a great professional development opportunity; 120 coaches attended not only from Greece but from other countries as well (Qatar, Egypt, Switzerland, UAE). 

Year after year, this clinic grows and it is a great networking opportunity for the benefit of our students as well.

ACS Athens - Campion Co-Host Track Meet, April 19

On Friday, April 19th, ACS Athens and Campion co-hosted a track meet at the Campion Track Facility.  This competition consisted of High School and Middle School teams and in addition to the two schools, the German School of Athens joined us, thus making it a three-school meet.

For some of our athletes, this was the first time they ever competed; for others, more experienced, this was just an opportunity to once again try to beat their personal best!

Exceptional performances by our seniors,  Daphne Apostolides and Nick Kalantzakis.
Well done athletes!

• Middle School Results
• High School Results

JV Basketball Winter Season 2013 Over!

The winter sports season is officially over. Our JV basketball teams gave their best during their last competition on March 13th.

The Boys were victorious, winning 1st place in the tournament that was hosted at ACS Athens, while the Girls had 3 close matches at St. Catherine's, giving them valuable experience for the years to come! 

View these photo galleries:

• JV Boys

• JV Girls

Let the spring season begin!!

VARSITY BASKETBALL TEAMS: ISST 2013 ROUND UP

Our varsity basketball teams are back from the ISSTs, having gained significant playing experience in the tournaments. 

The Boys finished in 8^th place, with some exciting and close games in Frankfurt. The team is young and talented and looks very promising for the years to come! We all look forward to next year's ISST that will take place in Brussels.

The Girls repeated another successful season, finishing the tournament undefeated and conquered the 2013 ISST Girls Basketball Champions title at The Hague! All girls demonstrated excellent play, effort and attitude!

Congratulations to Pinelopi Pavlopoulou and Mariella Fasoula for being selected on the all-tournament team!

Final Season JV Basketball Tournaments

The winter sports season is coming to an end with the JV boys and girls basketball tournaments taking place on Wednesday, March 13th.

Varsity Basketball Final Tournaments for Season

The time has come for the final competition of the winter season for our varsity basketball teams! The ISST tournaments will take place on March 6 - 10, with the participation of 11 other international schools. 

Our boys team will be traveling to Frankfurt and the girls are off to The Hague. 

For more information and game results, you can check the host schools' links: 

• Boys @ Frankfurt: http://www.fis.edu/page.cfm?p=809

• Girls @ The Hague: http://www.ash.nl/ISSTinformation

Good luck to our varsity teams!

8th Annual ACS Athens Swimming Cup, March 1-2, 2013

The 8th Annual ACS Athens Swimming Cup will take place at the ACS Athens pool on Friday, March 1st and Saturday, March 2nd.  Over 170 Middle School and High School Swimmers will join us for some exciting competition which will be the final event for the Swimming Season.

Participating schools

• ACS Tunis
• AISK Kuwait
• American School of Israel
• Anatolia College (Thessaloniki)
• St. Lawrence
• EllinoGermaniki Agogi
• Nea Genia Ziridi
• Kostea Geitona School
• Avgoulea- Linardatou School, and
• ACS Athens

Our Middle School and High School teams will have the opportunity to compete with fellow athletes over a period of two competition days.  This event will take place at our very own pool!

COMPETITION SCHEDULE

Friday 1st March 2013 - Day #1 Start Time 10:30 am.
EVENT	PHASE
100m Individual Medley (Junior boys & girls)	Heats
50m Freestyle	Heats
100m Backstroke	Heats
50m Breaststroke	Heats
200m Individual Medley (Varsity boys & girls)	Finals
BREAK (10-15 minutes)
200m Freestyle	Finals
100m Individual Medley (Junior boys & girls)	Finals
50m Freestyle	Finals
100m Backstroke	Finals
50m Breaststroke	Finals
4 x 50m Medley Relay	Finals

Saturday 2nd March 2013 - Day #2 Start Time 10:00 am.
EVENT	PHASE
100m Freestyle	Heats
50m Backstroke	Heats
100m Breaststroke	Heats
50m Butterfly	Heats
400m Freestyle (Varsity boys & girls)	Finals
BREAK (10-15 minutes)
100m Freestyle	Finals
50m Backstroke	Finals
100m Breaststroke	Finals
50m Butterfly	Finals
4 x 50m Freestyle	Finals

*Each event has 4 categories:

• Junior boys (Middle School boys: 6th - 8th grade)
• Junior girls (Middle School girls: 6th - 8th grade)
• Varsity boys (High School boys: 9th - 11th grade)
• Varsity girls (High School girls: 9th - 11th grade)

Event Results

• All Results Day #1
• All Results Day #2

• Results Juniors
• Results Varsity
• Results By School
• Overall

INTERNATIONAL YOUTH BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT, Feb. 2013

In memory of Diana W. Tamari and Hasib J. Sabbagh

ACS Athens is proud to host the International Youth Basketball Tournament, taking place on February 22 - 24, 2013, at the Rafina Municipal Gym.   More than one hundred athletes from Denmark, England, Israel, Italy and Greece will come together and compete against the best, for the first tournament of many to follow.

Yiorgos Christopoulos, Mayor of Rafina-Pikermi; Dr. Stefanos Gialamas, President ACS Athens and Annie Constantinides, Director of Athletics, Summer Camp and Recreational Programs, ACS Athens, welcome and wish everyone a great experience!

See the Tournament's official booklet ».
You may also join us for this event at 

Schedules of both Girls & Boys tournaments are seen below.

GIRLS

• ACS Cobham (England)
• Hellenic Selection Team (Greece)
• SISU (Denmark)
• ACS ATHENS (Greece)

BOYS

• MACCABI HOD HASHARON (Israel)
• STELLAZZURRA Basketball Academy (Italy)
• ACS COBHAM (England)
• ACS ATHENS (Greece)

Final scores will be posted here throughout the competition

Friday, February 22	Time	Saturday, February 23
ACS Cobham vs Maccabi Hod Hasharon (B) - 59-50	10:00	Stellazzurra vs ACS Cobham (B) - 55-48
ACS Athens vs ACS Cobham (G) - 67-28	11:45	Hellenic Selection Team vs ACS Cobham (G) - 82-12
Stellazzurra vs ACS Athens (B) - 56-31	13:30	ACS Athens vs SISU (G) - 75-44
ACS Cobham vs SISU(G) - 20-57	15:15	Stellazzurra vs Maccabi Hod Hasharon (B) - 52-38
ACS Athens vs Hellenic Selection Team (G) - 42-52	17:00	ACS Athens vs ACS Cobham (B) - 76-72 (OT)
ACS Athens vs Maccabi Hod Hasharon (B) - 48-40	18:45	Hellenic Selection Team vs SISU (G) 49-22

Photo gallery »

Sunday, February 24	Time
Stellazzurra vs. ACS Athens (B) - 69-38	9:30
Hellenic Selection Team vs. ACS Athens (G) - 59-46	11:45

Directions to Venue

See the directions from Rafina Main Square to the venue (Rafina Municipal Gym).

View Rafina Municipal Gym in a larger map

SCIS High School Swimming, 2013

The High School Swimming Team returned from Warsaw and from the SCIS Swimming Championships having done an excellent job!

The SCIS Swimming Championships took place on February 8 & 9 at the American School in Warsaw and teams from 11 international schools competed.

Our swimmers, six boys and six girls, for the first time ever, captured first place!  In 26 events, they earned 21 medals (8 gold, 8 silver and 5 bronze).

Lastly, 6 of those gold medals were also NEW course records!

A great performance by all the athletes (those that earned team points as well) and their coaches.

Congratulations to all the participants!

Girls
Camano Garcia Maria (9), Chatzi Konstantina (10), Kollilekas Sofia (12), Panagopoulou Danae (10), Papachristodoulou Elvira (12), Papadopoulou Penelope(9)

Boys
Duda Marek (10), Kollilekas George (10), Malamas Stathis (9), Nikolakoudis George (10), Papachristodoulos Michail (10), Xiradakis Sifis (12)

Coaches:  Kotsiani Athanasia & Papadakis Dionisis

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SCIS Middle School Swimming 2013, Recap

Congratulations to the Middle School Swimming team for a great performance at the SCIS Championships. This past week-end, our swimmers competed against 10 other schools and all our swimmers performed very well! Our boys team captured first place putting on a great show!

In the combined score, boys and girls teams, ACS Athens placed first! Great job....

Congratulations to George Panagopoulos, Philip Tsamantanis, Louka Ananianis and Mikayla Dokos for earning a number of medals on the individual events; the boys Medley relay team (Ionas Zissis, George Panagopoulos, Philip Tsamantanis and Louka Ananiadis) also won the gold medal.

Congratulations to all the participants.

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Many thanks to the student/members of the Sports Events Photography Club, who contributed dozens of photographs from this competition...