Sports Round Up
2015 Block 1 Sports Newsletter
Dear all,
I have been simply blown away the amount of sport that our students have taken part in since the start
of the academic year. Participation levels in many sports have been fantastic as has the level at which
many of our students have competed at. DCB students have participated and won tournaments locally
within the ISAC competitions and further afield at ACAMIS tournaments and in Phuket. We have
excellent sport facilities at the school and a committed team of coaches and players who I thank for
their contributions so far this academic year. The future looks bright for sport at DCB and I am
confident that together, we can build on the excellent platform that we have in place.
Eddie Lydall
Director of Sport
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Senior School Volleyball
Varsity Volleyball
SCIS Shanghai
Varsity Girls
Mike Gatting Cricket
Festival 2015
At the start of the academic year, former
England Cricket captain Mike Gatting visited
the school for the third time to pass on his
wisdom to our budding cricketers. Six other
schools from round the city joined us for a
festival of cricket including an U9 Kwik Cricket
and an U14 pairs cricket tournament. We are
hoping to welcome Mike back to the school
again next year.
ACAMIS Championships
4th
volleyball ACAMIS was one of
the most interesting ones for Dulwich Beijing.
With 6 new players to volleyball ACAMIS and
the varsity squad, coming in fourth place was a
massive achievement for our young vibrant
team. With one of the youngest and giggliest
teams, we were able to grow and develop
together as players and have tremendous fun.
The first day immediately threw us into the
tournament with a win against DCS, our sister
school, who in turn became the champions for
the girls tournament. With many roars and tears
the varsity girls volleyball team dig, set and
spiked their way through the tournament,
showing perseverance as well as enthusiasm
and love for the game. I thoroughly enjoyed
this year's ACAMIS, thanks to SCIS the host
school, and I wish our varsity girls volleyball
squad good luck for the years ahead.
Ming Bourne 13DHI
Eddie Lydall
2nd
ACAMIS Volleyball 2015 was an unforgettable
tournament. The varsity boys entered the
competition with only one thing on their minds:
the championship. With ferocity and fire, the
team easily beat the first few challengers DCS,
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ISB and SCIS. The fire was ignited and the team
blazed through the first two days with only one
loss to the skilled Suzhou Singaporean
International School (SSIS). On day three we
came ready to win. We knew we would have to
play well to get to the final as we wanted to
match up against Suzhou once again. The
dampened flame turned into a massive fire as
we beat Nanjing International School in two
sets to secure our place in the final. The final
was played at 2:00 p.m, Suzhou warmed up like
they felt they had already won the tournament.
We were anxious, excited and hopeful. All we
had to do was play well and consistently and
block their star spikers at each and every
chance. In a highly intense battle, Suzhou
walked away the winners. Throughout the tiebreaker the Dulwich Boys went point-for-point.
Despite placing second, the passion, support
and energy displayed in the finals made them
champions.
Samuel Kronick 13JPA
ISAC Volleyball Championships
Varsity Girls ISAC Volleyball
1st
Volleyball season has now come to an end but
what a season it has been for the U19
Girls Varsity team. The youngest team in years
with only 3 players from the IB years and yet we
still dominated the ISAC tournament here in
Beijing.
seasons I have experienced throughout my
Dulwich volleyball career. Looking forward to
another successful season next year!
Rebecca Svantemann 12NEN
Varsity Boys ISAC Volleyball
1st
After the ACAMIS tournament two weeks ago,
the Varsity Boys Volleyball team formed a bond
that made us more of a family than a sports
team. With this interconnection between
teammates, we eagerly entered the ISAC
tournament and beat the first contenders, BSB.
The finals soon stood before us - the German
School, our greatest rival. We knew we had to
realize, however, was how far our superior
teamwork would take us. We breezed through
the first 2 sets. But the entire team reached a
hurdle. We all became complacent. Losing the
third set by 10 points, we knew we had to
change our attitudes and bring back our team
The dampened flame was reignited once more;
we were an unstoppable force. Beating the
German School by more than 15 points, we
won the tournament. It was the last game for us
seniors, but we were all elated as we left a great
legacy for our younger teammates to follow.
Sam Kronick 13JPA
Junior Varsity Girls ISAC volleyball
1 st
Absolutely undefeated. Not one set was lost
throughout all of our game and as we
continued to play together we grew together;
not only as individual players but also as a
team. It has been an absolute honour to play
with this group of amazing girls and coming out
on top for the ISAC tournament was just the
icing on the cake that made this entire
experience unforgettable.
I believe that special mentions are in order to
our two graduating players: Ming Bourne and
Sarah Jølck who pushed the team to greater
heights and were inspiring role models both on
and off the court. Further thanks to Coach
Tomaszun who never gave up on us and really
made this season one of the most enjoyable
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games including the finals and went undefeated
(9-0) in their journey to being crowned
champions. Their victory in the finals over WAB
was impressive as the girls performed brilliantly.
They have shown that their hard work and team
effort paid off. It has been a fantastic season
with all of the girls showing improvements in
many aspects of their game.
Note: Missing from the team photo are Juliette
Aikman who had to leave for another school
event and Moon Ng.
Mr Schwartje
Middle School Football
U12
ISAC football
2 nd
At 9:30, we all met up at WAB's Tiger Field and
got warmed up. Compared to other teams we
were much smaller with only 1 sub. Knowing
this, we could assume that it would be hard, but
were ready for any challenges. Eventually, I
could see full teams and we all knew it was time
for our first game against BSB (British School of
Beijing) ...
Based on previous matches, we had tied BSB
but this time we were determined to win. We
were holding off the ball for a while (thanks to
our defenders) and managed to get some good
chances up front. Many amazing corners were
taken by Seung Yon Kim and awaited by Joy
Ryu and Melissa Midzic. There was one corner
that we wouldn't allow to leave the goal we
were shooting against. We managed to keep
the ball on the opposing teams side for a while,
with many attempts. Finally a goal was shot, but
by the defender of BSB, meaning already at our
first game an own goal was shot. BSB gave it
everything in attempt of getting a goal, but
with some amazing saves by our Goalie, Virginia
Ferri, and clearance from our defenders we
managed to pull out a win.
Right after our game against BSB, we were up
against WAB. We were ready to face whatever.
The game against WAB seemed like a very long
game, but we eventually scored a goal by
clearing the ball from our defence third and
running straight up towards the goal, where the
defenders both narrowed our Striker so the
sides were vulnerable leaving us a perfect
opening to shoot. After that we held of WAB for
the rest of the game.
Finally, it was our break! It was time to go eat,
and thats where we spent our time chilling
together as a team and preparing ourselves for,
in our opinion, the toughest game that
tournament being against DSP. After a long
break we were ready to play against DSP.
Returning to our regular formation we had
started our game. Pia did amazingly working up
front and really carried the ball forward giving
us very good chances on shooting with great
support from the Mid-Fielders. We had some
amazing far kicks done by the defenders,
making it tougher for DSP. After holding DSP
off for a long time they succeeded in shooting a
goal. For the rest of the game, we played better
than we had ever played Football and in my
opinion, every single individual was giving it
there all. Keeping in mind that we were the only
team that was strong enough to not allow DSP
to shoot more than 1 goal, felt like a great
accomplishment to all of us.
The Award Ceremony had started, and we
could barely stand out of exhaustion. We were
all huddled up together, anxious to find out the
results. The final placements were
announced rewarding us as 2nd Place as well as
a Sportsmanship Reward. We could not have
felt more proud of ourselves and thankful for
our Coach, who without none of this would
have happened. Ms Engels we owed our
achievements to and our improvements in
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Football. The Tournaments Experience I
wouldn't change for anything, and what I've
learnt through this entire Football Season will
last us, and speaking on my teammates behalf,
a lifetime.
Melissa Midzic 7KWA
U13 Girls ISAC football
1st
U14 Girls ISAC football
On Saturday the 24th of October the Dulwich
U13 girls team played in the ISAC football
tournament held at Harrow. We had an active
and successful day, playing 4 matches all
together, each had 20minute halves. The first
team we played against was ISB, we were a
little nervous since it was our first game and
didn't play our best but the game finished a tie
0-0.The next game was against Harrow. We
played amazingly despite their great defender
we scored 3 goals! One by Nina Zimmerman
One scored by Rachel Kwon and lastly one by
Wei Lin. The next match we played was against
WAB. We had another amazing game, winning
3-0 again! Caterina Bossi scoring 2 and Wei Lin
scoring 1. The defenders played great too, they
cleared every ball that came their way. The last
game we played was against BSB and we won
2-0, goals scored by Rachel Kwon and Wei Lin.
Overall we came first place, and had lots of fun!
Nina Zimmerman 8NST
2 nd
In the build to the final ISAC tournament we
played against the opposing teams at least
once but there nothing that compared to the
actual excitement on Saturday the 24th of
October. This was the date of the U14 ISAC
football tournament, where the matches were
played in a round robin format against BSB,
WAB, DSP and ISB.
Our first match was against BSB, the match was
fairly straight forward with some amazing goals
scored by Erica Dudek, Issy Elliot and Maggie
Chang. The end score was 4:1 to DCB.
The next match was played against the
powerhouse , WAB. We played our hardest
throughout the whole match, however using
great tactics and skills WAB scored four goals
against us. The highlight of that match was the
amazing goal shot by Maggie Chang at the end
of the first half, making the score 4:1 to the
Western Academy of Beijing. After that
unfortunate loss we were eager to win the next
game against the german school, which we did,
our team played very well with each other,
using personal skill to benefit the whole team.
DCB won three points to one, the goals were
scored by Issy Elliot, Jing-Ying Sun and two by
Erica Dudek. The very last match we played
,after many tiring games, was against ISB. The
Dulwich team
seem to get a goal in the
whole of the first half but we pulled trough to
equalise the score to two all. One of the goals
was shot by Marjorie yang whom beautifully
directed a corner kick ,by Erica Dudek, into the
opposing goal and the other equally as
impressive goal was scored by Maggie Chang.
At the end of the day the team achieved
second place and were awarded the
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sportsmanship trophy. This year s ISAC was a
great experience for all involved.
Erica Dudek 9KGA
U13
U12
ISAC football
3rd
Today The Dulwich U12 team travelled to BIBA
to play in one of the biggest football
tournaments throughout international schools,
ISAC. Our first game was against Harrow which
we tied 2-2. Secondly we played DSP, the
german school which we made a great
comeback from 1-0 down to make it 2-1 to us.
Great assists and goals to Max Elliott, Kaden
Schiff and Linus Yu. After that we had a very
important game to decide if we would come 1st
or 2nd in our pool. Against BSB we got on to an
early lead, and that lead, stood on its own until
in the last 30 seconds before BSB scored a
shocking goal to tie it, taking us down to 2nd
place in our pool. For the 3rd and 4th playoff
we had to play WAB, one of the best teams in
the tournament, but we shook them off and tied
1-1 at the end of the match. Of course we
needed to see who would get 3rd and who
would get 4th therefore we played extra time
with 6aside and golden goal rules in place, who
ever scores next wins. With pressure on the
whole entire team we constructed a great play
leaving Jeffery Weng to score an absolute
thriller of a goal to win 3rd place!
Kaden Schiff 7BDS
ISAC football
3rd
It was the 24th October. The DCB U13 boys
football team went to ISB with confidence. We
knew the opposition we would face would be
hard to beat. When we arrived at the football
pitch we started our warm-up, as we were
doing our warm-up we received word that the
schedule had changed. This meant we would b
playing a team that we had never played
before. We didn't know what to except so we
decided to play one of the strongest lineups we
could. We soon found out that this wouldn't
be a very tough opponent. We won the first
match comfortably. The second match would
be harder, we would play BSB. We played our
strongest team. After we scored a few goals
some fresh legs like Fred, Gavin and Evan. We
also won our second match. Now we would
play our rivals and the toughest
doubting ourselves and this cost us the match
we lost 3-0. Now we would play a match
against ISB to decide who would go to the final.
It was a tight match a save off the line by
Tommy would keep the score at 0-0, there were
a few minutes left when Matthijs scored the
winning goal. We had made it to the final. In
the final we would have to play WAB once
again. Now we knew we would have a chance
at winning despite our earlier loss. The match
started. WAB scored within the first five
minutes, but our heads didn't drop we knew we
could still win. We equalised. Leo had leaped
above everyone else to head it into the left
corner of the goal. It was a very tight match,
despite some amazing saves from Tommy and
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some great tackles and interceptions by Callum,
Evan and Lewis, WAB scored. We were starting
to get tired ,especially Owen who had been
sprinting around the pitch the whole match,
and they took advantage and scored another
goal. We all gave 110% until the final whistle.
Sadly we couldn't win, but we could look back
on the tournament and be proud.
day due to the tropical rainstorms!
Matthijs Verheijen 8JMI
U14
ISAC football
2nd
DCB were unlucky runners up in the Under 14
Boys ISAC competition. DCB eased their way
through the group stage with a 2-2 draw with
DSP and a 5-1 victory over ISB. In the semi final,
strings like a puppeteer in midfield and world
class saves by goalkeeper Charlie Shum led to a
10-1 battering of WAB. DSP also progressed to
the final.
In the final, an injury to Stanley Mao resulted in
formation reshuffle. Captain Luke Sampson
was outstanding at the back, thwarting
countless attacks. On the stroke of half time,
box-to-box midfielder Chris Kim took charge of
the game, scoring a thunderbolt goal, silencing
the parochial German crowd. Mr. Lowish rallied
the team at half time and reminded everyone
not be complacent. Unfortunately, an erratic
kick across goal led to an equalizer and
poor communication resulted in another goal,
handing a come from behind 2-1 victory to
DSP.
Mr Hermans
Phuket football trip
From November 5-8th forty of our students from
Year 5 to Year 8 attended the annual Phuket
Football Sevens competition hosted by the
British International School Phuket. The
tournament has developed in to one of the
premier football events in the region with
schools participating from all over Asia. Our
teams all performed amicably but unfortunately
the competition had to be cut short on the final
U11 Girls
In Phuket the weather was hot, something the
girls were not used to and this affected how we
played. However, after a shaky start of a 2-0
loss, we showed Phuket how we could play by
winning our next game 4-0. Unluckily, we drew
our final game as in the last 30 seconds Tanglin
scored. This made us third in our pool. The next
day of games begun at 8am for us and what a
match! Another 4-0 win followed shortly by a 30 win. During this game, torrential rain poured
but the girls continued playing with sheer
determination as the grass became saturated
with water and it was extremely difficult to
dribble let alone score! Due to the rain, the
remaining matches were cancelled which meant
we knew we would either be placed 9th or 10th.
But from our superb performances I know we
would have received a well-deserved 9th
performance and every player has improved
from when we first began to train that every one
of them deserved an award! It was a pleasure
taking them on the trip and they thoroughly
enjoyed themselves representing DCB. Thanks
Ms Haldane for training and coaching them at
the tournament!
The most improved player in the girls team this
tournament was Uma, and the most valuable
player was Amelia well done girls!
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-trick, the third of which
was an absolute screamer into the top corner,
and Kris Kim scored the other to make the final
score 4-0. This result left us top of the table and
feeling very positive. However, there was
another long wait until our final game of the
day, which also happened to be against the
tournament hosts, BISP. The school has a link
with the Brazilian team, Cruziero, and their
professional coaches have clearly been working
hard to get to a very high standard. Our boys
fought hard and were incredibly unlucky to lose
2-0.
Overnight, the heavens opened and, whilst we
still woke to sunshine, we arrived to very boggy
when playing our final group game, which was
against STAB, a team that had won all of their
other games, including beating the BISP boys
who had beaten us the day before. The boys
survived the pressure of a very good team
almost all the way to half-time, but STAB scored
a very good goal and gave the boys an awful
lot to do to get back into the game. But they
Unfortunately, STAB were simply too good and
by the final whistle the score was 3-0. The boys
left the pitch with their heads held high and
began to prepare for our next fixture against
U11 Boys
Thursday bought another beautiful day and the
first day of competition. Having watched all
three of our other teams before their first
fixture, the boys were more than a little fired up
before the first goal was scored by William with
a glorious shot from distance, and then the
flood gates opened with Zion and Eric both
scoring to make it 3-0 at half-time. The game
was so one-sided that our goalkeeper and
captain, Pierrot, came out on pitch for the
second half and scored a well-taken goal for
himself. The game ended 5-0 and left the boys
hungry for more. However, they had to wait for
quite a while until the next game. In this time
they were able to watch all of the other
opposition and suss out who would need to be
marked and closed down. Due to the long wait,
nerves were high by the time the second game
arrived, not helped by the fact that our
opposition, BISV, had beaten us last year 4-2.
But, lead by our inspirational captain, the boys
went out and dominated a
Pitches became bogs, then puddles and, when
the rain refused to stop, lakes. Due to
unplayable and unsafe conditions, the
tournament had to be abandoned. We headed
back to the hotel absolutely drenched but also
very proud of our achievements, and had
another afternoon in the pool (after all, we were
already wet!). In the evening, we went out as a
whole squad for a celebration dinner at a local
pizza parlour, where Pierrot gave a brilliant
Most improved player was shared between
Niclas Schou and Jun Kim. Niclas for going
from being on the edge of the squad to
becoming an incredibly important and
influential player, and Jun for giving his all both
in goal and on pitch when he was called upon.
Most valuable player was awarded to Kris Kim,
who ran, passed, tackled and scored until he
was absolutely dead on his feet. He never ever
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gave up and really deserved this most
prestigious award.
Overall, it was a very successful tour that left me
a very proud coach. Our Year 6 boys will all be
pushing for a place in the U13 squad next year
and our Year 5s will almost certainly be back to
represent us again. Special mention must also
goes to Zongxu, who was terribly unlucky to
miss the whole tournament due to illness and
was missed by all
Thanks to Mr Alford for training and coaching
the team at the tournament and the write up!
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game 3-0 (against DC Singapore). We were all
getting snacks next to the canteen when
something happened that people who live in
Masses of water poured down on us, showing
us what tropical rain is like. The pitches turned
into pools and it became impossible to play on
them, so all the matches left had to be
cancelled and all teams had to return to their
hotels. After the rain had stopped we all took a
dinner we went to a pizza place. In the evening
Ms. Sadler allowed us to have one last swim.
U13 Girls
On the 4th of November at 4:45am, our Phuket
Football trip started. We took the 8am flight to
Hong Kong and from there we took a flight to
Phuket. The following morning, on our first day,
we made our way to the British International
School of Phuket for a 2 hour training session.
The scorching sun in Thailand was certainly a
contrast to the 10 degree temperature in
Beijing! We spend 2 hours training hard, though
sweating uncontrollably and taking a countless
number of water breaks. We spend the whole
afternoon at the hotel, taking swims in the
prodigious pool and going to the nearby
supermarket.
Our first competition day was eventful. We
woke up at 5:30 am, already feeling anxious
about how our day was going to go. Our first
match was against the winning team from the
previous year- Tanglin Trust Singapore. We put
on a remarkable fight and secured a 0-0 tie. The
second match of the day resulted in a well
earned, 3-0 win against ISPC! The next game
was probably the most significant match of the
entire tournament (against BIS Vietnam), we
gave it our all and with only a few minutes
remaining the score was 2-2. However, in the
last 3 minutes the opposing team scored a
confounding goal. And so the game ended with
a 3-2 loss. Despite the game against Vietnam
we came back strong and won the last game,
against BISP, 6-0.
And so our treasured Phuket trip was over, we
flew back to Beijing the following afternoon.
Thank you,
Birte Muller 8JGI
U13 Boys
The boys managed to win 3 games (3-1 vs
Garden International School, 3-2 vs Stonehill &
5-1 vs Dulwich College Soul) and we lost 3 very
tight games to British International School
Phuket, International School Kuala Lumpur &
Malborough College. A very amicable effort
from all of the players!
All of the boys contributed hugely both on and
off the pitch with some outstanding individual
performances from all of the squad. When it
came to handing out the awards on the final
night, Callum Jones was awarded most valuable
player and Mark Li was deservedly awarded the
most improved player.
A real highlight for me as the coach was seeing
the boys bond and gel together throughout the
tournament. This was especially evident when
the chips where down. A really positive trip and
one the boys and their parents should be
immensely proud of.
Mr Hurworth
Our final competition day was a success. We
were playing for 9th out of 20 teams. Our first
match of the day and last match of the
tournament was a complete triumph, our team
played tremendously well and we won the
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Tennis
ACAMIS Tennis Championships
Tennis Championships in October. The
tournament was attended by sixty students
from schools in China and Mongolia. Our
students performed exceptionally well. The
Harry Sha and Gabriel Spooner
played very well throughout the tournament but
unfortunately met their math against a very
strong pairing from Macau in the final.
performed exceptionally well and dominated
the completion to finish as winners. What made
their victory even more impressive is that both
girls are still only in Year 9 and ACAMIS is an
U19 tournament! I would predict that there is
more success to come in the future from this
pairing.
On Friday, early in the morning, Skia and
Olivia played against the second team in their
pool and beat them with confidence and out
standing teamwork. This meant that they got
into the division 1 semi-finals. Kristen and Mika
played their first round match in division 1. But
sadly, they lost 8-6 6-8 and 8-1 against ISB 6,
but still kept their heads held high.
On the last day of the competition, DCB 1
was successful against ISB 6, winning 8-1 in
doubles and 8-0 in singles, ensuring their place
in the finals against WAB 1. Kristen and Mika
played for 5th and 6th, and with an amazing
performance, they got 5th place. In the finals,
Skia and Olivia lost their doubles 8-3 but got
back in their singles. Skia had asthma halfway
through her match but still won 8-3. Olivia, on
the other hand, at 7-6 had a 30 minutes deuce
and won that game. Which meant that they
came first. Both teams played exceptionally
well, and deserved their places.
By: Skia Kung and Olivia Wang
ACAMIS Tournament results
1st
2nd
ISAC Tournament results
2nd
Mr Lydall
On the 22~24th of October, Dulwich College
Beijing held the U19 ACAMIS 2015 tennis
at WAB (Western Academy of Beijing) whilst the
On Thursday, Kristen and Mika (DCB 2) had
to play against 2 different teams in their pool.
They played amazingly with lots of courage and
in return, they got into the quarterfinals. Skia
and Olivia (DCB 1) had an easy victory against
WAB 3.
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U15 FOBISIA Games lwich College
Beijing
Hosted by Du
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Block 1 concluded with the school proudly hosting the U15 FOBSIA Games. Five schools visited DCB
from around Asia for three days of intense competition in football, basketball, swimming and athletics.
Although the weather was against us for the duration of the competition, we still managed to run an
adapted schedule in our fan
tastic indoor facilities. The DCB team performed very well achieving the following results:
1st
2nd
1st
4th
Combined athletics 2nd
Combined swimming 4th
Block 2
Sports currently in season:
Middle school ISAC volleyball
Junior Varsity and Varsity basketball
Senior school table tennis
Dates for your diary:
Event
Dulwich Senior
Games
Primary FOBISIA
Games
Date
4-5th
March
2016
16-19th
March
18-19th
April
2016
19-23
May
Rugby, Tennis,
Netball Festival
27-28th
May
U13 FOBISIA Games
Dulwich Junior
Games
Location
Dulwich
Shanghai
Kellet School
Hong Kong
Dulwich
College
Suzhou
British
International
School Ho
Chi Minh City
DCB
More details to follow regarding these and other events.
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