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The past couple of weeks have seen sports coming to the fore at Doha College. A huge number of our teams have achieved sporting success capped off with the Doha College secondary school cross country team winning the annual Doha cross country by a considerable margin.
The past couple of weeks have seen sports coming to the fore at Doha College. A huge number of our teams have achieved sporting success capped off with the Doha College secondary school cross country team winning the annual Doha cross country by a considerable margin.
The competition involved three students from each age category competing with students from over 15 schools across the city, including the American School of Doha, DESS, Hamilton, DBS, Park House and a number of the ‘franchise’ schools such as Sherborne Qatar and Kings College Taunton (Doha). In almost every age category Doha College pupils not only won but had two runners placed in the top three and three runners placed in the top ten. Huge congratulations to all the pupils who took part and represented the College so exceptionally well.
Further congratulations go to our U15 BSME team who competed in the BSME games in Abu Dhabi in their premier (large school) division. As the only school in Qatar represented in this elite-level competition, our team secured an admirable third place overall, with first place being achieved in the Boys’ Athletics section and Ahmed from Year 10 being crowned most valuable player of the tournament. It was a great highlight of my week attending both the cross country and the celebration assembly for the U15 BSME team.
Closer to home there have also been sporting successes for many of our teams in the past few weeks including: the U11 girls football team who won the BSME football tournament we also hosted, our U11 boys cricket team who won the tournament, our under 14 netball (B-team) who beat King’s College Taunton (Doha)’s A-team 25-3 as well as the A-teams beating AKIS (15-0 and 20-3) and Kings College Taunton (Doha) (29-1 and 15-2).
Congratulations too, to our EVO swimmers who travelled to Bahrain over the weekend with many of them achieving personal bests and podium finishes.
Conclusive proof, if further proof should be needed, that in addition to Doha College’s exceptional reputation as Qatar’s leading school in terms of academic standards, outcomes and university destinations, it is also the school of choice for any pupils in the city who harbour sporting ambitions.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone and I look forward to seeing you all at our Spring Festival on Saturday.
David Tongue
Principal
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