Sports
Sports has always held great importance for the students of I.L.S (football being the most popular by far), and there was no major organized sports movement until the appearance of Mrs Nandal, who managed to organize a sports week, in which all the houses go up against each other in various sports such as volleyball, football, cricket, kho-kho, basketball, table tennis etc. To facilitate the sports scene, I.L.S purchased a compound at 8, orimeji street, which has been converted into a sports complex of sorts. It has facilities for football, badminton and table tennis. The school plans to develop more facilities for the benefit of students and sports in the foreseeable future. Since the past few years ILS has had a Sports Committee, which discharges various sporting duties for development and maintenance with the guidance of the current Sports Teacher, Mrs. Seema Mishra. I.L.S participates in many inter-school tournaments, and has won quite a few. Students of ILS have made their name in many sports, particularly Basketball, Table Tennis, Cricket and Chess. National Trophies have been won in all these sports, while players have also made their name internationally in Basketball and Cricket.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)