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SABERS AWARDS CELEBRATION 2020

6/23/2020

 
Please visit the Sabers awards webpage for more information.
http://sabers.senri.ed.jp/awards.html

通常の状況下で...
Under normal circumstances, the SOIS community - students, parents, faculty, staff - are invited each year to the Sabers awards celebration, held in the theater and cafeteria. Under normal circumstances, over 100 people attend this fun event. Under normal circumstances, the Sabers community comes together to celebrate a successful year of sport.
Under normal circumstances….
The circumstances now are not normal, you may have noticed.
Because of the closure of the school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we did not hold our annual awards celebration in person. This was disappointing to all Sabers athletes and coaches. Still, it gives us great pleasure to announce the 2019-20 Sabers team and school award winners.

Please visit the Sabers awards website for more information.

We honor our high school student athletes with two kinds of awards: 
  • three team awards: MVP, MIP, and SSA (Sabers Spirit Award), chosen by each team’s coaches; and 
  • two school awards: Sabers Outstanding Athlete and Dr. Fukuda Scholar Athlete, chosen by coaches and school administrators. 
  • SOISでは、チームのコーチ、より選ばれたチーム表彰、すべてのコーチ、学校管理職によって選ばれた学校表彰のふたつの賞をもってハイスクールのスポーツ選手を表彰します。チーム表彰はにはMIPとMVPとSSAがあり、学校表彰には最優秀スポーツ選手賞とドクター福田表彰選手賞とがあります。 

Congratulations to these deserving Sabers student athletes.
  • Dr. Fukuda Scholar Athletes (female): Nanami Hasegawa, Karin Tomiyama (co-winners)
  • Dr. Fukuda Scholar Athlete (male): Riki Sampson
  • Sabers Outstanding Athlete (female): Do Hee Kwon
  • Sabers Outstanding Athlete (male): Yumekichiro Urasaki

Thank you, all Sabers athletes, coaches, teachers, and parents.
Go Sabers! Be strong, SABERStrong!

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2020-21 Sabers Schedule: cancellations

6/17/2020

 
AISA: Sabers will not participate.
It is disappointing to announce that, due to safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Sabers will not participate in any 2020-21 AISA events. All five of the AISA schools have agreed to cancel the 2020 fall events. The 2020 winter and spring events might be held by the other four schools, but SOIS will not compete. This will be tough news for our Sabers athletes and coaches.
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WJAA: fall season to be limited.
The 2020 fall season for WJAA sports will be limited. All midseason festivals and end-of-season tournaments - middle school and high school - have been cancelled. This affects HS volleyball and cross country, and MS volleyball and baseball. Tournaments may be replaced with smaller one-day events including only nearby Kansai schools (CA, KCS, KIUA, OYIS, MBIS, SOLICS, SOIS). Teams from further away (Nagoya, Yokohama, Hokkaido, Fukuoka, Iwakuni, Sasebo) will not travel to Kansai. As of now, we plan to
​hold usual Saturday “friendly” games and matches among the Kansai teams, with new safety precautions planned. This might change depending on the coronavirus situation. More information will be announced in August.

Sabers website "trivia treasure hunt" 2020

5/26/2020

 
Sabers website "trivia treasure hunt"
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Congratulations to our winners: Aoi Uchikata and Yuka Aoyama!

Open to all members of the Sabers community.
Please search the many pages of the Sabers athletics website to find the answers to the trivia questions.
The first 10 Sabers students, parents, graduates, or staff members who submit a mostly correctly answered questionnaire will receive a special prize (void where prohibited).
​Explore the website, support the Sabers, and win a contest!

Good luck, everyone. Go, Sabers!

取消 CANCELLED: all Sabers events, spring 2020

4/10/2020

 
  • All spring 2020 Sabers events CANCELLED.
  • ​No WJAA or AISA events, middle school or high school. 
  • Sorry, everyone. 
  • Be Strong. SaberSTRONG!
  • Awards celebration TBD.

Sabers HS soccer teams compete at AISA 2019

4/11/2019

 
SABERS GIRLS: 2019 AISA CHAMPIONS! 
Boys finish 3rd.
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Boys recap: A relatively young Sabers boys soccer team placed a respectable 3rd at the 2019 AISA soccer tournament held in Yokohama. After going scoreless on day 1, the Sabers boys soccer team found themselves in a tie for 2nd place in their pool and facing a tiebreaking "kicks from the penalty mark" shootout with KIS early Saturday morning. For a young team, this might have been a nerve-wracking experience, but the Sabers were calm, not even bothering to put on their uniforms, and won the shootout to advance to the semifinals, where they lost to eventual champions Yokohama International School. All-tournament team members were Neo Yokoyama, Kentaro Okuda, and Taishi Fukuda. A big thank you to Coach Entwistle and Coach Nikolic. 

Girls recap: The Sabers girls soccer team went undefeated through pool play and the semifinals, but they gave up a goal in each match. The defense tightened up in the finals, holding the host Korea International School Phoenix to a scoreless draw. The Sabers prevailed in an exciting "kicks from the penalty mark" shootout, 3-1, to repeat as AISA champions. All tournament team members were Leona Yanagi, Keito Iuchi, Ririko Okuno, and Nanami Hasegawa. Special congratulations to Coach Kono who single-handedly coached the team this year. Thank you to chaperone Matsuda-sensei.

Original announcement
The Sabers girls and boys soccer teams play in Association of International Schools in Asia (AISA)
 championship tournaments this weekend, April 11 and 12, 2019. 
  • The boys, led by Coach Entwistle and Coach Nikolic, travel to the Yokohama Athletic and Country Club (YCAC) in Yokoyama, for the tournament hosted by Yokohama International School. Here is the tournament website.
  • The girls, coached by Coach Kono and chaperoned by Matsuda-sensei, travel overseas, playing at Korea International School in Seoul, South Korea. Here is the tournament program and a link to the livestream. 
Go Sabers!

Sabers soccer teams compete in WJAA tourneys 2019

3/7/2019

 
The Sabers girls and boys soccer teams play in Western Japan Athletic Association (WJAA) championship tournaments this weekend, March 8 and 9, 2019. 

The girls, coached by Coach Kono and chaperoned by Yukawa-sensei, travel to the Yokohama Athletic and Country Club (YCAC) in Yokoyama, for the tournament hosted by Yokohama International School. Here is the tournament website.

The boys, led by Coach Entwistle and Coach Nikolic, stay closer to home, playing at Canadian Academy on Rokko Island in Kobe. Here is the tournament webpage and match schedule.

Good luck, Sabers!
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Sabers swimmer finishes 3rd in Kanto Plains

2/3/2019

 
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A group of 19 SOIS middle school and high school Sabers swimmers competed
in the winter Kanto Plains championship meet hosted by St. Mary's International School in Tokyo, February 2, 2019. In the age 13-14 division, OIS 9th grader Tadayoshi Kamegai competed in 3 events, placing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in those events
to finish 3rd overall in his age division. The Sabers are coached by Mr. Bertman and
Ms. Kano. 

AISA weekend, January 2019: results

1/24/2019

 
UPDATE (check basketball websites for details): 
  • math team: top 5 finish behind perennial powerhouses KIS and SIS; OIS grade 11 Riki Sampson was the top Sabers "mathlete". 
  • leadership team: all awesome.
  • basketball, boys: 4th place after a challenging weekend. 
  • basketball, girls: Sabers varsity 3rd place (all-tournament: Akari Sugimoto, Haruka Mibuchi); Sabers JV 4th place (all-tournament: Asumi Muto, Dohee Kwon)
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Four Sabers teams took part in AISA events, January 24-27, 2019, in Seoul, Yokohama, and Osaka.
  1. Math mania: Led by Mr. Bertman, 6 SOIS "mathletes" competed in a math mania event hosted by Seoul International School (SIS) in South Korea. 
  2. Leadership: Led by Mr. Sheriff, 4 SOIS student council leaders participated in a leadership conference, also hosted by SIS in Seoul.
  3. Basketball, boys: The Sabers high school boys varsity basketball team, coached by Morioka-sensei and Mr. Kralovec, vied for a season-ending championship at the annual AISA tournament, hosted this year by Yokohama International School.
  4. Basketball, girls: After hosting - and winning - the WJAA girls basketball tournament last week, SOIS hosted the AISA tournament this week. The Sabers, coached by Sagara-sensei and Okamoto-sensei, were defending AISA champions, having won the tournament last year in Busan. The Sabers JV team competed, also.  
​Both the boys and girls basketball tournaments will be livestreamed. Be sure to tune in. Click on the basketball links above for tournament information.

WJAA champions 2019, HS girls basketball

1/20/2019

 
SOIS hosted the 2019 Western Japan Athletic Association (WJAA) high school girls varsity basketball championship tournament January 18-19 in a chilly Sabers gym, and the Sabers thrilled the home crowd by winning the WJAA title, defeating Yokohama International School in the finals, 35-32. In a scrappy defensive battle full of turnovers and jump balls, neither team could mount much of an offensive attack. OIS senior Niki Heimer led the Sabers with 10 points, with SIS senior Yulia Ikumi adding 9 points despite spending much of the game on the bench with foul trouble. Haruka Mibuchi scored 8 points, Akari Sugimoto added 4, and Sakura Okamoto and Karen Akashi each chipped in 2 points to round out the scoring for Coach Sagara's team. 
  • Yulia Ikumi, Haruka Mibuchi, and Sakura Okamoto were named to the all-tournament team.
  • For more details (rosters, photos, scores), visit the tournament webpage.
  • photo album here
  • Replay of championship game on YouTube. (Special thanks to Mr. Frater for the livestreaming.)

JV basketball: boys @Yokohama, girls @CA

1/11/2019

 
RESULTS UPDATE
  • JV girls: 1st place
  • JV boys: 2nd place
Congratulations, players and coaches. Great results.

The high school boys junior varsity basketball team is playing in the WJAA tournament hosted by Yokohama International School, January 11-12, 2019. Good luck to Coach Morioka and Coach Sala and the boys.

Be sure to check out the tournament website for team photos and live streaming of the games.
www.yis.ac.jp/school-life/athletics/tournament-page
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