Upper School Athletics - Toronto Montessori School

Titan Community!

We hope that all athletes enjoy a relaxing and healthy long weekend - starting tomorrow! Next week, will mark the final week of CISAA League play prior to play-offs commencing! As always, check the CISAA website ( www.cisaa.ca ) for the most up to date standings and results - which dictate play-off spots. I have tried to summarize below important dates for each of our Teams.

A BIG Congratulations to the SR Boys Basketball Team, JR Boys Basketball Team and U14 Boys Basketball Team who all secured 1st place in their respective leagues; some even going all season with undefeated records! They all earn the right to HOST CISAA Championship Tournaments on Saturday, February 29th. We will require up to 6 scorekeepers to volunteer for the day. They will earn up to 8 hours for their citizenship; so please see Sohail or Ms. Willis.

Yesterday, Wednesday, February 12th, we hosted our first official Showcase game at the new Lower School Gym and it was a huge success! Our SR Boys Basketball Team played RLCA and B in a double header, with a full gym of Upper Elementary Students and Faculty cheering them on! It was amazing to see the Titan pride, spirit and energy come to life. We even had a line up of students asking for autographs from players on the SR Team! SR's you did a fantastic job demonstrating top notch skill, performance and most importantly team play and sportsmanship. You are ambassadors to the younger students of our School and I believe you did a great job inspiring many of them to join teams when they transition to the Upper School.

Good luck to all players as we approach play-offs!

For more photos from the Senior Boys Basketball Game, please click here!

CISAA Play-Off Details:

Team	Play-Off Date 1	CISAA Championships
SR Boys Bball DIII	EARN A BYE TO FINALS	Sat, Feb. 29^th OR Fri, Feb. 28^th @ US GYM (TBD)
JR Boys Bball DIII	EARN A BYE TO FINALS	Sat, Feb. 29^th @ US GYM
U14 Boys Bball DIII	EARN A BYE TO FINALS	Sat, Feb. 29^th @ LS GYM
SR Girls Vball DIII	Mon, Feb. 24^th (time tbd) (Need to win to advance)	Wed, Feb. 26^th @ HNMCS (time tbd)
JR Girls Vball DIII	Mon, Feb. 24^th (time tbd)(Need to win to advance)	Wed, Feb. 26^th @ TRAF (time tbd)
U14 Girls Vball DIII	Mon, Feb. 24^th (time tbd)(Need to win to advance)	Wed, Feb. 26^th @ TRAF (time tbd)
U13 Girls Vball DII	NA	Friday, Feb. 28^th @ TYS 2pm
SR Curling A/B	PAGE Playoffs @ THCC	Friday, Feb. 28^th @ East York (9:30AM start)
U14 Curling	PAGE Playoffs @ THCC	Friday, Feb. 28^th @ East York (9:30AM start)

Past Results (This Week):

Date	Team	Result
Mon, Feb. 10	SR Boys Basketball DIII	TMS 52 v PC 36 W
Mon, Feb. 10	SR Girls Vball DIII Double	TMS 2 v RLC 0 W TMS 0 v HAW 2
Mon, Feb. 10	JR Girls Vball DIII	TMS 3 v CDS 2 W
Mon, Feb. 10	U13 Girls Vball DII	TMS 2 v HC 0 W
Tues, Feb. 11	JR Boys Basketball DIII	TMS 53 v PC 25 W
Tues, Feb. 11	U14 Boys Basketball DIII	TMS 52 v MS 42 W
Wed, Feb. 12	SR Boys Basketball DIII	TMS 64 v RLCA 39 W TMS 58 v RLCB 35 W
Wed, Feb. 12	U14 Curling	TMS 1 v BVG 11

Weekly Reminders:

- Sport Club – we have switched to Badminton every Monday @ Lunch and will run until March Break. This is open to all ages and we hope to see many of you in the gym being active. Please bring your own goggles and sport shoes to participate!

- Winter Athletic Awards – will be on Monday, March 2^nd at 9:30AM in the gym. Athletes will be eligible to receive either a “TITAN” award or “MVP” award for their respective teams – good luck! We will also take team photos in the gym at lunch, so be sure to bring your jerseys.

- ATHLETIC PORTAL TEAM PRACTICE/GAME SCHEDULES: Winter Games/ Practices Link (User Name- TMS, Password – TMS)

Elite Basketball Training continues in the GYM next Friday, Feb. 21st! Please be in TMS gym clothes, appropriate running shoes and be ready to work for 8AM. We really would like to see ALL athletes in attendance, mandatory for U14 Boys Bball Team, however OPEN TO ALL!

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Upper School Athletic Awards

Today at the Upper School, we celebrated the Fall Athletic Season, recognizing the efforts and achievements of all of our Coaches and Student-Athletes over the past term. This Season, all of our Teams advanced to CISAA play-offs, with some of our Teams earning coveted spots at CISAA Championship Final Four Tournaments! We continue to make TMS known in the CISAA Community, competing at a high level with class, sportsmanship and pride. We hope to see many Students come out for Winter Sports Teams, training commencing as early as this week.

We would like to thank Gauthaman for his outstanding MC skills as our Student Athletic Chair as well as Chloe and Akshen who spent many hours creating our TMS Fall Athletic Highlight Video. Please click the link to enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Rg6_FyaLs

This Year, TMS has partnered with Elite Basketball and Venom Volleyball to help provide high caliber training for our Athletes at both the Lower School and Upper School. We have invited all students to attend the Winter Skill Development workshops this week after school run by Elite and Venom:

Tues, Nov 5th - U13 Girls Volleyball (North Gym) and JR Girls Volleyball (South Gym)

Wed, Nov 6th - U14 Girls Volleyball (North Gym) and SR Girls Volleyball (South Gym)

Thurs, November 7th - U14, JR and SR Boys Basketball

Although we couldn’t recognize every specific Athlete today, we can say with confidence that all of our Athletes are Titans at heart and did a fantastic job being ambassadors for TMS in the greater Community. Today, we did recognize 1 MVP and 1 TITAN award recipient per team. See descriptors below:

Award	Description
Individual Team – Each coach will nominate 1 athlete per team that best meets the criteria stated for each award. These awards are presented at the end of each respective season during our Athletic Assembly.
MVP Award	This award recognizes the most valuable player for each team. They demonstrate outstanding physical performance and are highly competent and consistent when executing sport-specific and fitness skills in competitive events.
Titan Award	This award recognizes a player that is extremely coachable and an excellent team player. They demonstrate exemplary attitude, commitment and perseverance.

Congratulations to the Athletes below who earned a trophy for their outstanding performance this past Season. Please see the list of recipients for the Fall Athletic Season below:

U14 XC	Titan – Sebastian MVP – Lucy
SR XC	Titan – Himanshu MVP – Matthew
U14 Girls Basketball DIII	Titan – Sophia MVP – Rhea
SR Girls Basketball DIII	Titan – Samiya MVP – Tiana
JR Girls Field Hockey	Titan – Isabella MVP – Vanessa and Sanam
SR Girls Field Hockey DIII	Titan – Neeka MVP – Lia and Tamara
U14 Boys Volleyball DII	Titan – Sadiq MVP – Ian
JR Boys Volleyball DII	Titan – Joshua MVP – Stephen
SR Boys Volleyball DII	Titan – Jeff MVP – Gauthaman

Please see the link below to view photos taken at our Fall Athletic Awards Ceremony today: https://www.tmsschool.ca/parent/news-gallery

Thank you to all the Coaches, Parents and Athletes for your ongoing commitment and efforts to make the TMS Athletic Program a success each and every year. See you out at Winter Tryouts! Schedule is up to date on the TMS Upper School Athletic Portal (click link below; TMS is the user name and password to access).

http://www.dciphercomputing.com/tmsschool/showpage.dcam?livewebreports

Concussion Guide for Parents/Caregivers (Parachute Canada)
http://www.parachutecanada.org/downloads/resources/Concussion-Parents-Caregivers.pdf

UPPER SCHOOL INSTAGRAM: @tmsathletics_em

TMS Upper School Athletic Guide