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School Chess Tournament Achievements

In the recently concluded Colombo district inter school chess championship held on 22nd & 23rd of October, 2016. Our chess teams performed as below:

Under 9: Many of the team members participated in competitive chess for the first time in their life. We achieved 2 star category after being placed 18th from 49 teams.

Under 11: Again a very inexperienced team with only few members having experience in competitive chess. Here also we achieved 2 star category after being placed 23rd from 56 teams.

Under 13: Achieved 6th place among 57 teams. They were the only team other than Royal(who became first) to be undefeated over all 6 rounds(2 wins and 4 draws). They will be selected to the next round of the school tournament.

Under 15: Achieved 4th place among 32 teams. Leaving some of the better known teams such as Ananda, Nalanda and Lycium to bite the dust. They will also be selected to the next level of the school tournament.

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All Island Inter School 10S Tennis Tournament – 2016

Much happy to announce that Thurstan Orange ball team (under 8) secured 4th place of All Island Inter School 10S Tennis Tournament held last week at SLTA courts. In this category 20 teams were participated.

1st round 

St. Johns College ? Jaffna Won 3/2
St. Thomas ?Mount? B Won 5/0
St. Joseph ? Negombo Lost 2/3
Maliyadeva ?B? Won 3/2

 
Quarter final played with St. Thomas ?Mount? A and our players won 3/0 and selected to semi final.
 
Semi final played with Royal ?Blue? (A) and lost to 3/1.
For the Third place again played with St. Joseph ? Negombo and lost 3/2, hard luck.
 
Red ball team (under 7) selected to quarter finals among 26 teams and defeated to Ananda ?A? by 3/0.
 
We must thank our head coach Prasanna Athauda and his assistants for this achievement. They work hard by conducting morning (5.45 to 7am) and evening practice sessions daily, over the period of past one month to bring our boys to this achievement.
 
Last year, Red balls and Orange balls both teams secured 4th place of the tournament for the 1st time.

 

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Thurstan Swimming Captain Wins 1 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals in the SAAC 2016

Thurstan College Swimming Captain Anupa Manjith Gamage has represented Sri Lanka in the SAAC 2016 and won a Silver Medal in 200×4 Relay and 2 Bronze Medals in 400m and 800m Free Style Events.
Anupa has started swimming with our present coach Mr. L V Fernando until he joined Mr. Wilson at the age of 14 and later he joined with Mr. Julian Bolling and presently he is being continued practicing in Mr. Julians squad and the Thurstan College Squad. 

 

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Old Thurstanites Tennis Tournament

Thurstan College has been blessed with three tennis courts, a luxury not enjoyed by many schools in Sri Lanka. Tennis at Thurstan has seen a great improvement in the past three years. Our school tennis team has dedicated players that are serious about the game and the school has recently produced island ranking players.

 
This year we are happy to announce that the first Old Thurstanites Tennis Tournament will be held on Sunday, 17th July at the Thurstan College Tennis Courts. This would be an annual event organized by the Thurstan College OBU Tennis Committee.

 
The tournament is open only for Old Boys of Thurstan College.

 
Details of the tournament are as follows:

Date: Sunday, 17th July 2016

Time: 9:00 a.m. onwards

Venue: Thurstan College Tennis Courts

Registration: Free

Rackets and Tennis Balls will be provided.

To register for the event and/or to obtain further information please contact:

Prasanna Wanigasooriya ? 0772962500/ [email protected]

Radike Dalpatadu ? 0776558373/ [email protected]

Please help us by forwarding this message to Thurstanites who play and enjoy the game of tennis.

Thank you.

Prasannna Wanigasooriya    /  Radike Dalpatadu

Functional Secretary TC OBU Tennis  /  TC OBU Tennis Committee

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අන්තර් පාඨශාලීය මාධ්‍ය තරගාවලිය 2016

තර්ස්ටන් විද්‍යාලයීය මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය මගින් තෙවන වරටත් සංවිධාන කරනු ලැබූ මාධ්‍ය දිනයට සමගාමීව  මාධ්‍ය දින තරගාවලිය 2016 මැයි මස 27 වන දින පැවැත්වූ වගයි.මෙම තරගාවලියට ආරාධිත පාසල් 22 පමණ සහභාගි වුණි.

 

 

 

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NEXU 2016

තර්ස්ටන් විද්‍යාලයීය තෙවන මාධ්‍ය දිනය 2016 ජුනි මස 10 වන සිකුරාදා දින ප.ව 2.00 සිට ප.ව 5.30දක්වා අතිඋත්කර්ෂවත් අන්දමින් තර්ස්ටන් විද්‍යාලයීය ප්‍රධාන ශාලාවේ දී පැවැත්වුණි.මෙම උත්සවයේ ප්‍රධාන අමුත්තා ලෙස පැමිණ සිටියේ රජයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති අධ්‍යක්ෂක වන රංග කලංසූරිය මැතිදුන්ය.

           තවද ආරාධිත පාසල් 25 පමණ මෙම අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වුණි.මාධ්‍ය දිනයට සමගාමීව පැවැත්වූ තරගාවලියෙන් ශූරතාව දිනා ගනු ලැබුවේ කොළඹ සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක විද්‍යාලයයි.