Sports
DAIS offers a variety of sporting activities aimed to improve the health and fitness of our students, nurture individual talents, whilst enabling them to enjoy the recreational benefits it offers. Exposure to individual and team skills through competitive sports inculcates a sense of sportsmanship, a school-wide community spirit and a feeling of individual accomplishment amongst students. Trust, commitment, self-discipline, honesty, respect for the opponent and most importantly, grace and stoicism, whether you win or lose, is at the heart of all sports lessons at DAIS.
On our facility we offer Basketball, Football, Cricket, Table Tennis, Tennis, Judo, Taekwondo, Chess, Gymnastics, Weight-Training, Rope Mallakhamb, Volleyball, Throwball and Athletics.As club activities out of school children go Skiing with Les Elfes International, Verbier in Switzerland. Students are also engaged in hill-walking, camp craft and nature walks, in addition to theory lessons.
Students who show strong aptitude in certain select sports are provided the opportunity to further focus and build on their competency with the provision of extra training and exposure to competitions. The sports culture of the school is further strengthened by offering physical education both in the ICSE and IGCSE programmes, whilst Sports, Exercise and Health Sciences (SEHS) is offered in the IB Diploma programme.
The School sports facilities include a state-of-the-art AstroTurf football field, indoor Badminton Courts, Judo and Taekwondo training space, a Volleyball Court, Basketball Courts, Lawn Tennis Courts, Rope Malkhamb facilities and a Long-Jump Pit.
Inter-house and inter-school competitions organised by students for Athletics, Basketball, Badminton, Chess, Cricket, Judo, Taekwondo, Tennis, Table Tennis, Football, Touch Rugby, Swimming, Squash, March Past and Tug-of-war provide them with experience of organising, administering and officiating sports events.
International training camps in India and abroad in Football, Skiing, Judo, Basketball, and Cricket help them hone their skills and excel at these sports. Our students have brought laurels to the School by winning many sporting events at the district, state, national and international levels. DAIS has often been adjudged the best co-educational school in sports in Mumbai by the Mumbai Schools Sports Association (MSSA), a fitting acknowledgment of our many sporting achievements.
