Sporting Achievements
- The VIS Golf Team is the only VIS team to win the National Schools' Championships.
- The VIS Rugby Team has defended its title as Austrian Rugby Champions (u18) for 6 years in a row now. Players are regularly included in the u18 Austrian National Team that attends the FIRA-AER European Championships every year.
- The VIS rugby team won the Swiss school invitational in 2009 and was second in 2008.
- The VIS rugby team was recently promoted to the 1st division of ISST permanently as a result of their impressive performance at BSN.
- Over the past ten years, the VIS SV Boys Basketball team has won 6 consecutive championship titles and two second place awards in the International Schools Sports Tournament.
- The VIS JV basketball team has now won the SCIS tournament 2 years in a row.
- The VIS Tennis Team has, after a series of turbulent years, regrouped and started to return to its former strength by winning the third place at 2009 SCIS for the boys and third place overall in 2010 at ISST.
- The VIS Ski racing team won overall in 2001 in the Heinrich Harrer Cup in Seefeld.
- The VIS SV rugby team came third in the 2011 division 1 rugby ISST held at ASL.
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