Badminton

On Friday 12th of September Lechwe and Simba brought teams to play badminton. This was the first ever badminton competition held in ISAZ schools. We played doubles matches and each school brought 3 teams. Seed 1-2, Seed 3-4 and Seed 5-6. Our first team was Samuel Kirk and Xavier Zytkow and we won 2 of our 6 games. Our second team was Joseph Kirk and Ross McCaffrey and they won 1 of their 6 games. Our third team was Natalie Grove and Stacy Fergusson and they won 1 of their 6 games. It was a very good afternoon and we all enjoyed it and special thanks should go to Mr and Mrs Grove for setting it all up so well.

By Samuel Kirk.

Stacey and Natalie

The secondary students faced Lechwe boys and girls in a singles and doubles tournament. Players were seeded according to ability and they were: Caleb Ronald, Daniel Weiandt and Edwin Dingwall, Joyce Muteb and Fiona McCaffrey. Caleb was able to convincingly win all three singles games 21-7, 21-8,21-13 and his doubles matches were close losses 21-16 and 21-19. Daniel also played good singles matches with 3 wins: 21-16, 21- 15 and 21-10. Partnering with Edwin they won one of their 2 doubles games 21-13. Edwin was new to the game but still managed 2 wins in singles with scores of 21-16, 20-22 and 21-16. He also enjoyed one success in doubles with Daniel.
The two girls faired better in the doubles matches against similarly balanced competition. Joyce won one and lost one singles: 15-21 and 21-18. Fiona lost twice 12-21 and 12-21 against both of here opponents but in the double match of three games the pair were able to win 2 -1 sets: 21-15, 21-15 and 18-21.
For a first attempt Amano competed very well given that the boys do not get taught the sport and the girls only got 6 lessons. Our opponents, Simba in particular, are club players and were noticeably better at primary level.
It will be good to expand the competition next year and get more competition for the students. Amano is the only ISAZ Copperbelt school that has four courts indoors so it is great to be able to offer something different to the independent schools community and share what we have.
Well done to the students and my thanks to Mrs Miles and some other students who helped the primaries to score.

By Mr Grove

Fiona and Joyce

Edwin and Daniel

Visiting staff