ATHLETICS

May 24, 2018

DAA Athletics and Activities Awards Banquet

DAA hosted our final year-end awards banquet, recognizing all Season 3 team members and award winners of our Athletics and Activities teams on Monday evening.  Students, parents and coaches from all three seasons will in attendance, and were treated to an IFTAR dinner and Guest Speaker (Mr. Omar Nour), as well as special awards presentations for Leaving Seniors and Coaches.  Sportsmanship highlights were also announced, as well as all season athletes.  Congratulations to the following major award winners:

Junior Varsity Female Athlete of the Year - Klara Andersson

Junior Varsity Male Athlete of the Year - Mert Saygi 

Female Scholar Athlete of the Year - Diala Talaat

Male Scholar Athlete of the Year - Francois Rioux

Varsity Female Athlete of the Year - Maddie Buist

Varsity Male Athlete of the Year - Lusayo Mwalwanda

Sportsmanship students recognized:

Dimitra Valtetsioti

Akbar Namazi 

Ayman Kamran

Ammar Kamran

Jihong Min

Mert Saygi

Madeleine Buist

Lucas van Unen

Quentin van Unen

Niels van Unen

Jada Chalouhi 

Giulio Errico

Yara Mersi

Diala Talaat

Zoe Gouws

Roopak Mallick

Julia Motta

Ari Istanboulli

Coach Kyle Cloete


Leaving Seniors:

Faisal Al Ghriwati - Basketball

Ferris Al Hamar - Baseball

Edoardo Arminante - Soccer

Ali Ascioglu - Tennis

Peter Atallah - Basketball

Natalya Baakza - Volleyball

Anitej Banerjee - Academic Games

Aakar Chatha - Academic Games, Badminton

Valeria Chevarria Carrillo - Soccer

Yara Elzein - Volleyball

Lidia Errico - Basketball

Tarek Fakhoury - Soccer, Volleyball

Nader Junior Freiha - Basketball

Kainaz Gandhi - Academic Games, Badminton

Francois Geertsema - Swimming

Stephen Grim - Volleyball

Jude Haddad - Swimming, Badminton

Reem Hageali - Soccer

Ammar Kamran - Volleyball

Ayman Kamran - Volleyball

Jeremy Karunakar - Volleyball

Michel Katrib - Basketball

Badis Millan - Academic Games

Walt Knuppel - Swimming, Soccer, Track & Field

Minseung Ku - Academic Games

Alex Kubbinga - Swimming, Soccer

Grigorios Lagousakos - Soccer

Victoria Langenbach - Soccer

Henri Larmuseau - Soccer

Michael Madi - Basketball

Tamer Madi - Basketball

Selma Mezqueldi - Volleyball

Samir Moghrabi - Basketball

Julia Motta - Volleyball

Isabelle Murray - Soccer

Lusayo Mwalwanda - Volleyball, Soccer, Track & Field

Willy Njoroge - Track & Field

Ghayas Osseiran - Swimming

Marina Pace - Senior Fine Arts

Sasha Ravendradas - Badminton

Francois Rioux - Swimming, Soccer, Badminton

Dani Rogmans - Cross-Country

Belen Saldungaray - Senior Fine Arts

Justin Salem - Volleyball

Milan Samuel - Soccer

Isabelle Sicre - Volleyball, Soccer

Karan Sil - Soccer

Mahmoud Sobier - Academic Games

Santiago Suarez - Track & Field

Ege Suer - Basketball

Diala Talaat - Volleyball, Soccer

Ayra Thanveer - Tennis

Shrey Thapar - Academic Games

Dagmawi Gebreyes - Soccer

Raiya Thomure - Basketball, Track & Field

Josh Torres - Volleyball

Niels van Unen - Volleyball, Soccer 

HUGE APPRECIATION to our Athletics Department (Mr. Hall and Ms. Deakin) for organizing, our coaches (special farewell to our departing coaches), our players and parents, Mr. Omar Nour, Ms. Yvonne and Sarah Sidani, DAAPA Booster Club and Leopards Den - Bev Constantinou, Connie Hara, Nicole Kubbinga and Elena Karoussos, Slices, our DAA Facilities team, PRE Ms. Hilda Tabrizi, and DAA Administration Ms. Tammy Murphy, Mr. Ben Voborsky and Mr. Marc Starr.