Hockey 2012

After countless postpones due to the hectic weather conditions, the girl’s hockey match finally took place on a long anticipated sunny Wednesday afternoon. All houses had as much training time as the weather permitted, and their hockey skills prevailed on that very afternoon.

 

The long intensive trainings on the field and indoors paid off as the girls gave their best in the match.

We had over a month to prepare and trained very hard specifically on strategies and ways on improving our passing skills. As we used the halls indoors to practice, it was very different when we actually played on the field as the ball was faster inside the hall. However so, Irinians managed to adjust to the circumstances and managed to score in most of the games. We also stressed on teamwork as it an important element to win a game.

 Being Irinians, sports events like this brought us closer and we discovered many hidden talents in some of which we didn’t know.

 

Many girls showed passionate Irinah spirit in participating during the tryouts, and trainings. However due to the short duration of the game, many could only play for a short period of time.

 

 Irinians had a fun time taking pictures and played their heart out on the field. Loud cheers can be heard to support our team players, and it helped encourage the hockey players to keep on going.

 

On the 7^th of November afternoon, the girls got geared up and the seniors played two games against Jawahir and Alia.  The senior players managed to defend Alia well, and came up with a score of 0-0, however the game between Jawahir was quite challenging and intense. Putting up a tough fight, the seniors were able to obtain a score of 2-1.  On the other hand, the juniors played a pretty impressive game by knocking out all of their opponents: Alia, Jawahir and Naquiah. Our juniors were proud to be announced 1^st place and managed to bring home the gold for Irinah. Unfortunately, seniors lost their overall game to Alia, due to a small difference in total score. However so, we still tried our very best.

 

Irinians have once again proven themselves to be resilient team players and Later on in the week after the mid-term break, the whole of Irinah house was awarded with scrumptious, delicious cupcakes baked by the brilliant captains that took charge of hockey. Despite the results, the hockey game brought Irinians together and showed true enthusiastic spirit for the house.