2009 SJC Girls' Futsal League_28.06.09

The first round of matches for the 2009 SJCGFL commenced this Sunday. Even though we were still short of players for some of the teams, the games have to go on.

This season, since Team Emerald did not have a coach, I had to come out of 'retirement' to coach the team. For the record, the last time I coached was in year 2004, in charge of Priya's team , Opal, when we emerged as Champions for Majors Division. After that, I had to retire as I was too busy organizing and refereeing the matches. Hopefully the 'new' coach in town would have the same success again!

Raj with Team Emerald

Team Citrine training

For the Majors Division, the first match between Emerald and Citrine ended in a goalless draw. Both the team had their chances to score but they were thwarted by the good goalkeeping. The second match was between Amber and Turquoise. Both teams played with four players as one player from each team did not turn up. It was an entertaining match with plenty of goals. Amber managed to outscore Turquoise by 6 goals to 4 goals.

Rama refereeing match between Emerald and Citrine

Team Emerald Vs Citrine

Doc Nasir and Jayanthi discussing with Team Amber players

Coach Ray Jennings with Team Turquoise players.

In the Seniors Division, Team Garnet beat Team Jade by 2 goals to nil. Both the goals were scored by Mayday in the 2nd and 4th quarters. In the second game, Team Sapphire managed to beat Team Opal by 3 goals by nil.

Coach Thomas Ward with Team Jade Players

It was goals galore in the Premier Division. Team Diamond scored 7 goals against Team Amethyst who managed to score one goal only. In the second match, Ruby beat Topaz by 5 goals to nil, all scored by Nurul Atiqa.

I am unable to report the games in detail as I had to coach a team for the first match and referee the other in the Majors. Hopefully some parents watching the Premiers and Seniors, would pen a few words for the website.

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2009 SJC Girls’ Futsal League_21.06.09

After last week's registration exercise and players' skills assessment, we conducted our Volunteer Orientation and Coaching Clinic this week at 1.00 p.m. at U One Sport Center.

Our Girl's league follows the same concept as the Boy's League where the fathers would serve as coaches and mothers as team managers. We also invited some volunteers to coach the teams where the fathers were not available.

The orientation for the team mangers and volunteers were conducted by Ida. They were briefed on their roles and responsibilities in assisting the Committee to achieve a smooth-running and well-participated league season.

Ari, our Technical Head, conducted the coaching clinic by briefing the coaches on the rules and guideline drawn up for our girls' futsal. For the first time in our league, we are proud to have two female volunteer coaches who were our former players i.e Denisa Khoo and Claudine Lee. Denisa and Claudine would be coaching Team Sapphire and Team Citrine respectively. The players were excited at the prospect of being trained by their seniors.

Coach Claudine training her players

Coach Denisa (L) with Team Sapphire players

The coaches, team managers and other volunteers were also encouraged to reinforce our League's Core values to the players i.e. Unity, Teamwork, Discipline, Sportsmanship, Service and Family.

Based on the registration and player's assessment carried out last week, the players were placed into teams in their respective divisions according to their skills, age and race. We have three divisions of Majors, Seniors and Premiers. Each division has four teams consisting of 5 players with 2 reserves for each team.

Presently we have a total of 55 registered players for the three divisions. Our Organising Committee has been calling former players and distributing flyers prepared by Farouk. We have passed the word around that we still need more players for the league.

Colourful Flyer prepared by Farouk

The players underwent training from 2.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. with their respective teammates and coach. The players' roster shall be distributed to the players and parents by next week, once we have enough players registered.

Some photos taken during the training sessions as below:
Majors players training
Coach Ray Jennings training Team Turquoise players
Mothers watching the training
Ari, Dave, Dr. Nasir & Farouk - League Organisers

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2009 SJC Girls’ Futsal League_14.06.09

After the successful completion of our Boy's Football League last month, it is now time for the girls to have some fun with our SJC Girls' Futsal League (SJCGFL). For our sixth edition of our SJCGFL season, we shall be playing at a new venue, U One Sport Center (next to USJ1 Giant, Subang Jaya).

We started out with the final registration at 1.20 p.m. followed by players’ skills assessment from 2.00 p.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Registration of players
Choosing T-shirts size

As usual, Ari, our SJSC technical head, with a team of coaches carried out the assessment of the players which would be used to place the players into teams.
Bruhan assisted by Rama assessing Majors players.
Tun Kamalul assessing Senior Players
Premier girls assessed by Saidin

Afif helping to assess Premier players

Ari discussing tactics with coaches

At the end of the day, a total of 52 players registered for the three divisions Majors (19), Seniors (15) and Premiers (18). We have another two weeks to register a total of 84 players for the divisions which require 28 players per division to draw four teams (5 players with 2 reserves for each team).

The teams would be playing a double round robin league competition on Sunday afternoons from 28th June to 2 nd August 2009. Our Girl's league follows the same concept as the Boys' League where the fathers would serve as coaches and mothers as team managers.

Premier girls practising

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National School U-18 Scrabble Competition_06.06.09

MSA organized the National School U-18 Scrabble Competition which was held at Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur on 6th – 7th June 2009. 82 players from 16 schools from throughout the country took part in this tournament playing 15 rounds of scrabble in two days.. The Champion would qualify automatically to represent Malaysia for the 2009 World Youth Scrabble Competition (WYSC) which would be held in Johor Bahru in December. In addition, the top twenty finishers would be invited for the MSA National Youth competition in September for the selection of the Malaysian representatives of 2009 WYSC.

We were all involved in the competition. Rama took part as one of the six players representing SMK Seafield, Subang Jaya. I was the co-coordinator for the competition with Martin Teo. Chitra and Priya were tournament helpers, taking care of the scrabble sets and clocks. Chitra also helped mail the invitations for the competition to 45 schools. The Tournament Director was Alex Tan, MSA Vice President.

Participants of U18 Scrabble Competition
Playing under pressure

The prizes were sponsored by Mattel Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd (Malaysia). We managed to give a total of 19 prizes (3 top prizes, 14 consolation prizes, 1 highest word and 1 youngest player award). Another 10 prizes were given out during the rounds as spot prizes.

Tournament Prizes

The players played eight games on Saturday and another seven on Sunday. Rama was in awesome form winning all his eight games in the first day. In the second day, he won six games losing only one to Ong Suanne, winning a total of fourteen points with a spread of 1847. He also won the Highest Word prize with the word “TYROSINE” scoring 154 points.

Rama also earned automatic qualification to represent Malaysia for the 2009 WYSC. Unfortunately, he would not be able to take part this year as the tournament dates are clashing with his S.P.M. examination.

Rama Vs Scott Chung (Round 10)

The second placing went to Chang Ching Wei, followed by Ker Jen Ho, Scott Chung, William Kang and Ong Suanne.

Some photos of the winners:

Ganesh (Rated World No.1 Scrabble Player) handing Rama the 1st Prize.
2nd Prize winner, Chang Ching Wei.
3rd Prize winner, Ker Jen Ho.

Thank you to Dr. Adele Tan, President of MSA and other Committee Members i.e. Jocelyn, Henry Yeo and Chim who helped out during the competition.

Results after game 15 for top 10 finishers
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Rank Player Wins Mar
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1 Ramaraj Sundraraj 14 1847
2 Chang Ching Wei 11 1243
3 Ker Jen Ho 11 1156
4 Scott Chung 10 1264
5 William Kang 10 1029
6 Ong Suanne 10 947
7 Tan Kar Hee 10 723
8 Marcus Loke Qi En 10 569
9 Sue Wye Hong 10 365
10 Muhammad Nasrom 10 71

Due to the upcoming S.P.M. exams, this would probably be Rama’s last tournament for this year. Furthermore, next year he would not qualify for WYSC as he would be above 18 years old. Alas, Rama bows out from the U18 tournaments as a Champion.

Rama & his proud father.

Refer to MSA website for more information:- http://www.penster.com.my/

For more photos, visit our photo album at http://rajscrabble.fotopic.net/