7th Swimming Cup 2012, March 2-3

This is the final swimmming event of the season!

The 7th Annual Athens Swimming Cup is scheduled to take place on March 2-3 with the participation of 12 schools -local and international: 

• American School of Kuwait
• American Cooperative School of Tunis
• American International School of Israel
• Ziridis School
• Ellinogermaniki Agogi
• German School of Athens
• St. Lawrence
• ISA
• Kosteas Gitonas
• Campion
• Avgoulea-Linardatou, 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 2nd March 2012 - 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 3rd March 2012 - 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)

15th Anti Drug Basketball Tournament, Feb. 17-19

The culminating event  of our Wellness Week , the Annual Varsity  Boys and Girls Anti Drug Basketball Tournament is scheduled to take place on February 17th - 19th with the participation of 4 boys and 3 girls teams.

Once again we have the Anatolia and Tositsio-Arsakio boys teams and a number of Selection teams of the Associations of Basketball Clubs of Attica.  It will be a great week-end of basketball!  On the last day of the event, the day of the boys and girls finals, we will have the famous "Celebrity Game" which has proven to provide a fun afternoon for the entire community!

A tradition in the ACS Athens Athletics program, this tournament will be the last one with the message that we promoted for all these years; 

SAY NO TO DRUGS- MAKE HEALTHY CHOICES !

For the games & events program see here.

Update on Monday, February 20, 2012 at 4:25PM by ACS Admin

The 15th  (and final) Anti Drug Basketball Tournament has come to an end!

The Annual Boys and Girls Basketball tournament just took place and it was a full week-end of basketball for our teams and spectators.

The Boys team competed against Anatolia, Tositsio School and a Selection team from the Association of Basketball clubs of Attica.  They beat in the final game the Selection team by a score of 59-36.  They were proud winners of the 1st place trophy!

The Girls varsity team faced tougher competition and this tournament proved to be a great test in preparation for the upcoming ISST tournament; in their first game, the girls lost to the Selection team from the Association of Basketball clubs of Attica by  9  points and they won their second game by 1 point.  In the final game, our girls team once again lost to the Selection team of Attica by 11 points this time, to earn the silver medal.

On the last day of the event, the Celebrity game took place and a number of celebrities played a fun filled game in support of our cause: " We Say No to Drugs !"  It was a pleasant day for all the participants and the spectators…

Results of our teams:

Boys games

• ACS vs Anatolia:  80-48
• ACS vs Selection team:  63-36
• ACS vs Tositsio:  81-30
• ACS vs Selection team (final):  59-36

 

Girls Games

• ACS vs Selection team of Attica:  38-47
• ACS vs Selection team of South Attica:  48-47
• ACS vs Selection team of Attica (final):  34-43

 

Update on Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 1:48PM by ACS Admin

Here's what the press reported about the 15^th Anti-Drug Basketball Tournament..(articles in greek)

• www.advertising.gr

• www.basketnet.gr

• www.advertising.gr (pre-game announcement)

• www.basketnet.gr

 
View the photographs gallery- courtesy of 11th grade student, cheerleader and photographer Margarita Rentis.

Back-to-Back SCIS Championships for MS Swim Team

The MS Boys Swim Team repeated as Sports Council of International Schools (SCIS) champions this past weekend in Budapest, Hungary.  The Boys team earned a 1^st place team score finish out of 11 international schools.  The MS Girls Swim Team swam personal bests, combining for a 3^rd place overall finish with boys and girls scores combined.

Outstanding performances by Penelope Papadopoulou (Bronze medal - 100 backstroke), Stathis Malamas (4 Gold, 1 Silver) and George Panagopoulos (3 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze).

Congratulations to Coaches Jeff Kalas & Dionysis Papadakis and the entire SCIS MS Swim team:

Alina Alafouzos, Maria Camano-Garcia,
Eleni Chatziparaskeva, Mikayla Dokos,
Christina Marrano, Penelope Papadopoulou,
Konstantinos Alexopoulos, Alexandros Heliou Le Heux,
Filip Langer, Stathis Malamas,
George Panagopoulos  and Phillippos Tsamantanis

Detailed results are here : day#1, day#2, team.

High School Swimming wins lots of medals at SCIS championships!

The High School Swimmers participated in the SCIS Swimming Championships in Munich, this past week-end and it was a great event for all our swimmers!  For the first time ever, the ACS Swimming team brought back a total of 16 medals!

Nine silver medals, 6 bronze medals and three trophies were an amazing feat! 

All our swimmers broke their own personal records while some broke our school event records.  Silver medals were earned  by Danae Panagopoulou, Konstantina Chatzi, Sifis Xiradakis, Ioanna Rigas, George Nikolakoudis and the bronze medals were earned by George Kollilekas, Irene Tzelalis, Ioanna Rigas and Sifis Xiradakis.

Exceptional performances by Ioanna Rigas (5 medals in total), George Nikolakoudis and Sifis Xiradakis(4 medals each). 

The Boys team finished 2nd  and the girls team finished 3rd.  Our school earned the Sportsmanship Award (voted by coaches and other schools' athletes).

 

Congratulations to the entire team and Coach Kotsiani: 

Danae Panagopoulou, Konstantina Chatzi,
Elena Kefalogianni, Delphine Vlastos,
Irene Tzelalis, Ioanna Rigas,
George Nikolakoudis, George Passas,
George Nikolakoudis, Orestes Adam,
Alex Sharp  and Sifis Xiradakis

Here are the team results and the detailed results...

Girls Basketball Holiday Invitational Tournament

The 1st ACS Girls Basketball Holiday Invitational Tournament will take place in our Gym on

January 3 & 4, 2012!

The participating teams for this year will be:

• Panathinaikos (U18)

• Esperides (U18)

• Panionios (U18) and our

• Varsity Girls Team.

The schedule will be as follows:

 

January 3rd

6pm Panathinaikos vs Esperides

8pm ACS - Panionios

January 4th

6pm 3rd place game

8pm 1st place game

 

After the 3rd place game, a "2ball" contest will take place.

Immediately after, the final game will take place followed by the awards ceremony.

Last two fall season tournaments in November 2011

The JV Girls Soccer team will participate in the competition hosted by Campion school and the JV Boys Volleyball tournament will take place in our own campus.

Junior Varsity Girls Soccer Tournament

GROUP 1	TIME	GROUP 2
St. Catherine’s vs ISA	9:30-10:05
	10:10-10:45	ACS vs Byron College
St. Catherine’s vs Campion	10:50-11:25
	11:30-12:05	Byron College vs St. Lawrence
Campion vs ISA	12:10-12:45
	12:50-13:25	ACS vs St. Lawrence
13:00-2:05 SEMI FINAL 1 Winner of group 1 vs 2nd of group 2
2:10-2:45 SEMI-FINAL 2 Winner of group 2 vs 2nd of group 1
FINAL 3:00 :3:35

Junior Varsity Boys Volleyball Tournament

(Participating Schools : ACS Athens, Campion, Byron, St. Catherine's, St. Lawrence)

TIME	TEAMS
9:15	ACS vs Campion
10:00	St. Catherine’s vs Byron
10:45	ACS vs St. Lawrence
11:30	St. Catherine’s vs Campion
12:15	St. Lawrence vs Byron
13:00	ACS vs St. Catherine’s
13:45	Campion vs St. Lawrence
14:30	Byron vs Campion
15:15	St. Catherine’s vs St. Lawrence
16:00	ACS vs Byron

Update on Monday, November 21, 2011 at 9:54AM by ACS Admin

JV Girls Soccer tournament has been re-scheduled for Monday, November 28th

 

The last local tournament of the fall season is scheduled to take place on Monday, November 28th at St. Catherine's.  This tournament was postponed due to bad weather conditions - the schedule will be the same.

 

JV Boys Volleyball Season ends with a silver medal

The JV Boys Volleyball players finished their season with a second place finish.

A great way to end a challenging season indeed!  The team was a very young team that worked hard to learn the fundamentals and they pulled it through! 

Great job athletes and Coach Erin!

Great Performances in FALL ISST Tournaments

The ACS Athens teams have returned from their ISST - European Championships with many great memories and some great performances.  It was a great week-end for our athletes:

Our Varsity Girls Volleyball team returned home from Zurich with the 1st place trophy and three all star nominations - Lydia Spassof, Eva Pattakou and Hannah Amis.  A superb effort from the entire team.

Our Boys Volleyball team, played a challenging final and finished second - a very fulfilling season for our team with two all star nominations:  Nate Todd and Dimitris Gkaris.

Our Varsity Cross Country Country teams - both boys and girls - finished 5th among nine schools participating. 

Exceptional Performances by Daphne Apostolides who won the gold in the Girls Varsity Division and Alex Apostolides who got the silver medal in the Boys Varsity Division.

Finally,  both our girls and boys soccer teams came home with a 7th place standing having played some touch soccer games!  Alex Kazakeas was on the All star team.

Photos will be available in the sports gallery real soon!

WINTER SPORTS TRY-OUTS, 2011-2012

These are the dates for the Winter Sports Try-Outs for 2011-2012

Varsity Boys Basketball try-outs November 15,16

 

Varsity Girls Basketball try-outs: November 18,21

 

*Junior Varsity Basketball try-outs for boys and girls: November 29,30

(students should be under 16 years old)

 

Students trying out for basketball should meet in the gym at 3:45 pm

Middle School Swimming try-outs: November 14, 16

 

High School Swimming try-outs: November 15,18

 

Students trying out for swimming should meet at the pool at 3:45 pm

Junior Varsity Boys Football Tournament, at Campion School, Nov 8th

The Junior Varsity Boys Football Tournament, is taking place at Campion School, on November the 8th.

Participating teams are :

ACS Athens, Campion , GreekGerman School, ISA, St. Catherine's and St. Lawrence.

The schedule and details can be found here...