Keekli Reporter, 8th May, 2014, Shimla
Students of St Edwards School — classes 1 to 12th — enthusiastically participated in the Annual Sports Athletics’ Meet and gave some great performances. Each and every student, sitting among their Houses was cheering loudly as their counterparts ran the races to finish with top medals. St Lukes, St John, St Matthew and St Marks — four houses — clearly wanted to showcase their mettle and lift the trophy. School Principal, Fr John Bosco and Vice Principal Fr Naveen were also present to encourage the children.
Father Bosco said, “In this Sports Meet, competitions are being held for 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters races. And on Friday, the semi-finals and finals will be held so that we get the names of the winners”. He further added that participating in such events helps in improving the physical as well as mental strength of the students.
In continuation to the previous day results, today competitions were also held for Shot Put and Disc Throw.
In the O Division group, Aman Thakur was awarded the first prize, Parth Shekhri stood second, while Yuvraj Thakur bagged the third position, and they all were from the Yellow House. In the A Division Shubh Kaushal from Yellow House was first, Sahil Thakur was second from the Blue House and Avi Bhardwaj was third from the Yellow House. In B Division Surya Pratap Singh Negi stood first from Blue House, Parth Dutta was second from Yellow House and Shivam Sharma was third from Green House. And finally winners in C Division were as follows — Supragya Chauhan from Yellow House was first, Anmol Kumar was second from Green House and Viraj Shekhri was third, also from Green House.
Adding another medal to his tally was Aman Thakur who bagged the first position in the O Division for the Disc Throw as well. Second was Dharmesh Sood from Yellow House and third was Parth Shekhri from Yellow House. In A Division, Shubh Kaushal was first from the Yellow House, Sahil Thakur was second from the Blue House and Sahas Rudki was third from the Green House. Winners in B Division was as follows — Payadhish Shah stood first from the Green House, Ankit Panta was second from Red House, and Niharath Shailba was third from the Blue House. In C Division the winners were Anmol Kumar from Blue House, followed by Pranjal Dorgi from Green House and Abhinav Bhandari from Yellow House.