Vasant Valley Sports

5th Lt. Col. E. R. Tullett Memorial Inter School Cricket Tournament
4th May 2012

VVS (under 12 team) v/s Modern School, Vasant Vihar
Modern School scored 68 runs in 20 over’s and Vasant Valley won the match by 8 wickets in 12 over’s.

Jai Arora and Arnav Sethi took 3 Wickets

Dhruv Chouhan scored 27 runs and not out

Ishaan Roy scored 27 runs

May 2012

Vasant Valley's U-12 boys Soccer Team participated in The Blackburn Rovers Junior league and won the championship. Ransher S Manhas was awarded the Player of the tournament, Ashith Khosla became the highest scorer of the tournament with 40 goals and Ishan Roy got the talented player of the tournament.

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INTER HOUSE BASKETBALL for JUNIORS 2012.

April 30th 2012

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Girls:Blue v/s Red Blue House won scoring 8 baskets

Boys : Red House won scoring 10 baskets against Green House

Top Scorers Ransher Manhas - 12 baskets

All round Best Player - Ransher Manhas and Didar Rebello

Best Defense - Red House

Top scorer - . Aadya Tayal – 10 baskets

All round Best Players - Saiesha Gupta and Anahit Bindra

Best defense – Green House

Special Olympics
State level Power Llifting competition and Baseball training at Vasant Valley School
24thApril - 26th April, 2012

Special Olympics

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Sr. Girls Inter House Hockey
20th April 2012

BLUE vs. GREEN.
GREEN House won the Tournament by 3-0

Best Player : Inayat Gill

Highest Goal Scorer of the Tournament : Yashita Jeet

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Green House Team: Pia Chatterjee,Ashna Satyajit,Vanshika Ahuja,Gauri Khanna, Vani Mohindra,Seerat Kohli,Aneesha Patnaik,Inhee Ji ,Inayat Gill, Aakanksha Jhadav, Jaya Kang ,Pia Kochar ,Yashita Jeet , Taarika Peres and Jayanti Jha

Sr. Boys Inter House Hockey
19th April 2012

Boys: The match played between BLUE vs. RED. After a great fight RED House won the Tournament by 3-2

Best Player and Highest Goal Scorer of the Tournament:Tenzin Verma

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BLUE HOUSE HOCKEY TEAM (senior boys)
1.       Armaan Srinivasan (12C) (C)
2.       Pranoy Koul (12B)
3.       Nirbhay Bakshi (12A)
4.       Prateek Sethi (12C)
5.       Ishaan Karki (12B)
6.       Abhishek Dhawan (11A)
7.       Ranjeet Singh (11C)
8.       Abhiraj Arjun (10A)(GK)
9.       Ronak Bansal (10C)
10.   Jaisal Singh (10C)
11.   Manav Kohli (10C)
12.   Sirhaan Seth (9C)
13.   Arjun Srivastava (10A)
14.   Kabir Dhillon (9B)
15.   Amer Vaid (12B)

RED HOUSE HOCKEY TEAM (senior boys)
1.       Tenzin Varma (12C) (C)
2.       Gurbaz Khera (10C)
3.       Viraj Tuli (10A)
4.       Shaun Adil (10B)
5.       Sushain Sadhu (9B)
6.     Pranav Khanna (11C)
7.        Dhruvkool Rajamani (11B)
8.      Venkatesh Jindal (11A)
9.       Ashrant Kolhi (11C)
10.     Anish Asthana (12B) (GK)
11.   Mananjay Grewal (12C)
12.   Vir Chopra (12B)
13.   Udai Chawla (12B)
14.   Saurabh Sunder (12A)

Inter House Gymnastics 2012
March

Team Championship

BLUE HOUSE -317 POINTS - 1st
YELLOW HOUSE - 269.4 POINTS - 2nd
GREEN HOUSE - 258.4 POINTS - 3rd

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Basket Ball Match
9th March 2012

The Sr. Boys Basket ball Team won the basketball match aganist the Alumni(Batch of 2005)
The Score was 54-45

National Level Games for Persons with Disabilities, organized by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in Chennai
March 2012

Bipasha Mukherjee , Class 7, won a Gold medal in the 50m run, a Bronze med

al in the Soft ball Throw and a Silver medal in the Relay. Congratulations!

Red versus Green House and Red House won the match by 6 wickets.
Green House won the toss and elected to bat. Green House scored 183 runs in 25 over’s ( Madhav Sabarwal scored 121 run in 72 balls). Red House scored 187 runs in 22.1 over’s ( Vir Chopra scored 116 runs in 75 balls ).

Man of the Match : Vir Chopr (116 runs scored)
Best player of the tournament : Madhav Sabarwal (238 runs scored and took 7 wickets)
Highest wickets : Udai Chawla (took 10 wickets)
Bowler of the tournament : Vivan Puri ( 15 over’s 46 runs 8 wickets)
Batsman of the tournament : Madhav Sabarwal (238 runs scored)

The Vasant Valley mini soccer (boys and girls) team played Shri Ram Soccer League 2012.
Both teams played against Modern School, Vasant Vihar and both the VVS teams won by( 2- 0)score.

Peter Wellings from the Ealing Cricket Club, London, UK, will be in VVS for a few weeks and will interact with the students and the Senior cricket team as well as the students in the cricket camp. He is teaching them some tactics that they could use to improve their game.

Excellence in Cricket

Aiming at ‘cricket for all,’ founder of English coaching club “Coaching Cricket Excellence” Mr. Peter Wellings visited Vasant Valley School with fellow cricketer and coach Mr. Huw Jones, and a hope to seek out the school’s cricketing talent.
Mr. Wellings also a member of the PCA (Professional Cricketers Association) began playing cricket at the age of 14. Though he was interested in many sports, he found cricket to be the one he could excel at, and it became his passion. He began to play for Ealing in 1993 and three years of consistent performances for his club resulted in him signing professionally for Middlesex CCC, whom he played for in 1996 and 1997. In his 20’s he began going abroad, visiting and playing at places like Australia, South Africa, etc. Cricket became his way of life.
So of course, when he retired, with an Honours Degree in Leisure Management and 7 years of professional ‘List A’ experience, he set up Coaching Cricket Excellence with the aim of providing top quality coaching to both children and adults of all ages and abilities. “It’s a honey-pot for cricket,” says Mr. Wellings, ‘just cricket, all the time.’ Though the dream began in Ealing, London, the club now has coaching centers all over the world. In South Africa, the Coronation’s Cricket Club comprises mostly of coloured people in a near-by local village, similar to the Ugandan Cricket Club where all children are encouraged to play, regardless of their ability or their experience, and to become involved in cricket. The Ealing Cricket Club, their main coaching centre, has meanwhile gone on to become the best coaching centre in the country. Children from America, Canada, New Zealand, and in fact all over the world come to the club improve their standard of play and to develop their cricketing skills. Here, participants can have fun while being active with a lot of movement and also improving their basic skills, while being involved with the sport. In fact, in Ealing, being involved has taken on a whole new meaning. It’s often happened that the children participating end up coaching for the club and playing for various professional teams. To cite one example, Oliver Wilkin, at the age of 7 began coaching with Coaching Cricket Excellence. Mr. Wellings and his team, spotting the talent, began special training sessions with him, including one-on-one sessions. At age 16, he was signed on as coach, and now at 18 he has just joined the Middlesex CCC.
Mr. Wellings believes that you need to develop the athlete first. Even in Indian cricket, though the Indian team has good talent, they are probably the weakest in form and that is what is holding them back. “Youngsters in India need to build their athleticism. Fitness needs to be ingrained into their beliefs. They need to be 21st century in their training, fitness and strength” “The 13 to 14 age group is the best time for development of co-ordination and athletic potential,” adds Mr. Jones, “At this time, it is important for them to learn how to run, catch and move properly. Strength development, hand-eye co-ordination and balance, these three build a package that is necessary to a cricketer. The more you practice the better you’ll get.” In Vasant Valley, this is what they hope to do. “We want to make Vasant Valley a centre for excellence. Like a garden, we’ll start coaching right at the basics and help the children nurture and grow to become better players. We want to make a difference, one person at a time.”
However, this is not the only centre they plan on setting up in India. In Delhi, they already have started coaching at one of the DPS schools and have set up a centre in Bombay with a local charity, Vision Rescue, where they supply bats and kits, giving access to more and more players. “India has a population of 1.2 billion. More Sachins and more Harbhajans? They’ve just got to be out there!”
When asked what he would like to tell the students at Vasant Valley and to cricket players all over India, Mr. Wellings says, “Have a go. Get stuck in. Enjoy. And don’t be afraid to fail.”

Some students of our school got the chance to practice their skills with Mr. Wellings and Mr. Jones. This is what some of them had to say:

‘It was a great experience learning from them and I really look forward to more programs like this because at the end of the day it really does improves our game.’

‘This program will be an entirely new experience and will expose the whole team to a different side of the game. They (Mr. Wellings and Mr. Jones) are only here for two months, but we intend to make the most out of it.’
-Vir Chopra, 12

If you would like to find out more about Mr. Wellings, Mr. Jones and Cricket Coaching Excellence you can see their website
-http://www.coachingcricketexcellence.co.uk/
-http://www.slumcricket.com


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