The IX TAISI (The Association of International Schools of India) Sports Meet, hosted by Inventure Academy at its Bangalore campus from February 2 to 4, entered its fourth and final day with participants giving it their best on the athletics field. Over the four days, Inventure Academy played host to over 1100 students and their coaches from 31schools across India.

Student athletes (girls and boys from grades 4 to 12) participated across a range of sports including Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Soccer, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis and Volleyball.

Inventure Academy had every reason to cheer as they won the overall trophy, by a comfortable margin. In addition, Inventure students took home the Individual Championship awards in several categories.

Highlights of the meet:

Inventure Academy emerged the Overall TAISI Champions by a comfortable margin ahead of The International School Bangalore (TISB), and Bangalore International School who finished in second and third place, respectively.

Bangalore schools took the top three positions, with last year’s winner MIT Vishwashanthi Gurukul, Pune finishing 4th.

Inventure Academy’s stellar performances ensured the hosts dominated across the various categories for both girls and boys on the Athletics field.

Badminton: MIT Vishwashanthi Gurukul walked away with the top honours with 2 gold medals across 5 categories

Basketball: Oakridge International, Newton, Hyderabad and TISB shared honours with 2 gold medals each across 4 categories.

Football: Shriram School Aravalli bagged two gold medals, while Inventure, Bangalore International School, Mallya Aditi International School and The International School Bangalore (TISB) won one gold medal each across 6 categories.

Swimming: TISB won 13 gold medals while Inventure Academy walked away with 11 gold medals.

Table Tennis: Inventure Academy, Chirec International, Wisdom and MIT Vishwashanthi Gurukul won one gold medal each.

Tennis: Inventure Academy dominated the boys categories with two gold medals, while Chirec and Trivandrum International shared one gold medal each in the girls’ categories.

Volleyball: TISB won the boys' Volleyball event.

Points tally –

School - Points

Inventure Academy – 332

The International School Bangalore (TISB) – 240

Bangalore International School (BIS) – 148

MIT Vishwashanthi Gurukul, Maharashtra (MIT) – 131

Sanjay Ghodawat International School, Maharashtra – 87

Individual Champions – Swimming

Category – Name - School

A – Boys - Vrishabh Patil – TISB

A – Girls - Saloni Dalal - Inventure Academy

B – Boys - Parthav Shergil – TISB

B – Girls - Ananya Swamy – TISB

C – Boys - Yash Chauhan – TISB

C – Girls - Savan Bhaskar – Vidyashilp

D – Boys - M Yokesh - Inventure Academy

D – Girls - Ishvi Mathai - Oakridge Einstein

E – Boys - Sahil Dalal - Inventure Academy

E – Girls - Samara Varghese - Inventure Academy