The Kindergarten swimming Meet was held on Friday 30th of September 2022. All the students were very enthusiastic from the beginning and they were able to show their best skills. The event started with a mind-blowing dance. The meet was special because it was the first swimming meet held after a long break caused by the Covid 19 pandemic. Due to this, it was decided to add some new events to suit the abilities of the students. Grade 1 and 2 students were able to compete in a skillful manner. The Principal Rev. Fr. Araliya Jayasundara OSB, Vice Principal Mr. Krishanthan Antonydas , Co-Vice Principal Mr Ananda Marasinghe, the Chaplain Rev. Fr. Shelton Samadanam, the Middle School Head Mistress Mrs. Krishni George, Prefect of Games Mr. Uththiya Wijesinghe and the Finance Manager Mr. Rukshan Galanga participated as special invitees. Review by Mrs. Dhanujana Rathnayake Event Photographed by the Trinity College Media Unit. (Photographers: Nethmika Athukorala and Chelitha Senanayake)
We are delighted to announce that the Trinity College Swimming Team emerged champions with 362 points at the Central Province National School Games Meet, held at Digana Sports Complex from the 10th and 11th of October 2022. Trinity became overall champions in the Under 14, 18 and 20 age categories and runners up in the Under 12 and 16 age group . We express our appreciation to the MIC, Mr. Upali Amarakoon and Coaching Team headed by Mr. Pemlath for their efforts to achieve excellence.
Central Province Colours were awarded to three Swimmers from Trinity, A. I. S. Dikdeniya, V. I. Bogaswatte and T. K. Karunathilake for representing the provincial swimming team. They achieved 1st, 2nd and 3rd places at the National Sports Festival in 2019, which was held at the Sugathadasa Swimming Stadium. Achievements A.I.S. Dikdeniya 200M breaststroke – Gold 200m individual medley – Silver 100m breaststroke – Silver 400M im relay – Silver 400m freestyle relay – Silver V.I. Bogaswatte 50M butterfly – Bronze 50m butterfly – Bronze 400m freestyle relay – Silver T.K. Karunathilake 50M breaststroke – Bronze 200m breaststroke – Bronze A. I. S. Dikdeniya holds a record for the highest number of Swimming achievements (men’s) from Central Province! Our best wishes to these swimmers and the swimming team in their future meets.
The Trinity Swimming squad became overall champions at the Central Province Swimming Meet organised by St. Anthony’s College Kandy, held on 1st December 2019 at the St. Anthony’s College Swimming pool. The Trinity squad also won the age groups championship trophy and became novices runners-up at the same meet. The swimmers A.I.S. Dikdeniya and V.I. Bogaswatte were over 16 age group champions, while Y.T. Jayasuriya became under 10 novices champion at the meet.
Two of our swimmers, H.O.C. Hiripitiya and T. K. Karunathilake were awarded Central Province Colours in recognition of their performance. The award ceremony was held on 25th June at the Central Provincial Council Auditorium. This event was attended by Mr Maithri Gunaratna, the Governor of Central Province (and President’s Counsel). The award ceremony was held in relation to the 44th All Island National sports festival which took place at the Sugathadasa Swimming Complex in Colombo last year, where Hiripitiya and Karunathilake placed in their signature swimming events, 1500m freestyle and 200m breaststroke. Osanda Hiripitya also won College Colours for swimming previously. We congratulate these two swimmers for this great achievement and we would also like to mention that the overall performance of the Trinity swimming team has been admirably good: They were placed at the National & Junior National Short Course Swimming Championship this year, along with many other achievements in 2018 as well.
We had our Swimming team participating at the National & Junior National Short Course Swimming Championship which was held from 6th to 9th April 2019 at the Isipathana College swimming pool. Thisura Karunatilake placed 3rd at 50m breast stroke while Avon Dikdeniya won the 3rd place at 200m breast stroke. We congratulate the team and the coach for their effort and participation at this event.
The Trinity College Swimming team participated in the Sri Lanka Schools Swimming Championship 2018 held from June 6th to June 10th at the Sugathadasa Stadium Swimming pool. This event brought in many Schools from around the country to compete and win the 45th coveted All Island Schools Swimming Championship. The Trinity Swimming squad achieved 4th position in the boys’ category, scoring 236 points. The results are as follows: Under 9 E. S. Jayasena 50m back stroke – 2nd Place 200m individual medley – 7th Place K. Gunawardena 50m backstroke – 4th Place 200m individual medley – 4th Place 4*50m freestyle relay – 1st Place 4*50m medley relay – 2nd Place Under 13 S. Ranaweera 50m breaststroke – 3rd Place 100m breaststroke – 6th Place 4*100m free relay – 8th Place 4*100m medley relay – 7th Place Under 15 J. Jayasekara 50m free style – 7th Place 100m free style – 6th Place Under 17 A. Dikdeniya 200m breaststroke – 1st Place 100m breaststroke – 3rd Place 200m individual medley – 3rd place V. Bogaswatte 100m breaststroke – 1st Place 100m free style – 3rd Place 50m butterfly stroke – 5th Place T. Karunathilake 200m breaststroke – 3rd Place 50m breaststroke – 2nd Place 100m breaststroke – 4th Place O. Hiripitiya 200m free style – 2nd Place 400m freestyle – 4th Place 800m freestyle – 5th Place Y. Mallawarachi 50m freestyle – 7th Place 100m freestyle – 8th Place J. Macline 200m free style – 8th Place 4*100m freestyle relay – 4th Place 4*100m medley relay – 4th Place Under 19 S. Angekumbura 100m backstroke – 1st Place 200m backstroke – 2nd Place 50m backstroke – 5th Place S. Hapukotuwa 1500m freestyle – 2nd Place 400m freestyle – 3rd Place 100m breaststroke – 6th Place M. Jayasinghe 50m freestyle – 1st Place 100m freestyle – 3rd Place V. Rajapaksha 50m breaststroke – 8th Place
In an amazing display of swimming prowess at the 54th MILO/PRAM Invitational Age Group Swimming Championship 2018 held in Malaysia between 13th to the 20th of March, Mindiya Jayasinghe was able to bag bronze in his signature event, the freestyle. Reputed in his home town Kandy as one of the swimmers with the smoothest freestyle technique, Mindiya Jayasinghe was able to bring fame to College and Country as he competed against other seasoned swimmers and emerged third at this international event. Master Jayasinghe was the swimming Captain of Trinity College for the year 2017, and he was also awarded a Lion, the most coveted award a sportsman at Trinity can receive, for his exceptional achievements.
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