Senior Secondary School

N.Sriniram of class 9 a National level swimmer has brought many laurels to Bala Vidya Mandir.

He represented Tamil Nadu in the 38th Junior National Aquatic championship held at Bhopal from August 5th to 9th and bagged a gold  & a silver medal.

He won the Individual championship at the South Zone CBSE swimming meet held at Bangalore from 17th October to 20th October with 4 gold medals.

He received a scholarship of Rs.6,000/- from CBSE for winning the championship.

He participated in the Senior National Swimming Meet organized by CBSE at Sagar Public school, Bhopal from Nov 11th  to 14th . He won 2 golds, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal.

He also represented in the Chennai Corporation  Tamil Nadu Aquatic championship held in Chennai on  22nd and 23rd October winning the fourth place.

K.Hariharan of class 11 represented the school in the CBSE National Level Roller Skating Championship 2011 – 12  held at Noida, Uttarpradesh on 11th and 12th November. He bagged the Individual championship Trophy winning 3 gold medals as well as setting a new record, clocking the time of 27.17 sec in 300 meters track.

He was also the bronze medalist for India in the 14th Asian Roller speed Skating Championship 2010 in CHINESE TAIPEI.

He finished 23rd in the 15,000 meters ‘Elimination Race’ , in World Championships held in YEOSU , Korea 2011 in August 2011.

He has been the reigning National Champion for the  last 2 years and he has been selected for the 14th Beach Asian Games to be held at China in the month of May 2012.

S.Nikhil is currently ranked India ‘3’ in the All India Nationals in Table Tennis. He is currently ranked state ‘9’ and ‘10’ in the U – 17 boys categories respectively. He won 5 State Level Interschool Tournaments and also received gold in the Inter district Table Tennis tournament representing the U – 14 Madras District team. He was also the captain of the team. He won the third place in the All India CBSE Nationals held at Varanasi.

Nikhil won the 2nd place in the CBSE Cluster V tournament in the U – 16 individuals and also in the U – 16 team championship. He participated in the National Ranking Tournament held at Thane and qualified to the top 45 ranks in the country in U – 17 boys category and into the top 40- 55 ranks in the country in the men’s ( above 21) category in the country.

Radhi Premkumar student of class 9 represented our school in the game of throw ball at the South Zone National level and the team won Gold medal in the South Zone tournament. She participated in the Chennai district sub juniors state Throwball tournament which was held in the month of March 2011.

K.Hariharan XI A, is a speed roller skater since last 10 yrs. He is a member of the  Indian Team since the last 3 yrs, representing the country in various championships. Last year he has won a bronze medal for the country in Asian speed skating championships in Taiwan 2010.

This year he represented Indian in the world championship  in South Korea from 26th August  to 5th  September 2011.  He is seen in the Photograph with the Indian team, in the red body suit , third in the line.  

‘INTO THE BASKET’

The CBSE National level basketball tournament was held at The Velammal International school, Ponneri between 12th December 2011 and 17th December 2011. 32 teams qualified and participated from all over India and Gulf countries at the cluster level. These 32 teams were divided into eight pools for league matches and both winner and runners up of each pool were selected for the next knock out matches.

The BVM basketball team emerged as winners by winning over all other  teams, in that pool. As a result of winning all the matches with a high margin and scoring in the league matches our team got special seeding and entered  the quarter finals directly.

As per the Knockout fixtures of CBSE nationals we played the CBSE cluster V winners, The Sherwood Hall, and lost in the quarter finals. It is a feather in the cap of BVM’s basketball team as it is the first time the team has entered the quarter finals in the CBSE National basketball tournament.

‘YOUNG SERENA WILLIAMS’

Megha of class 6 has  been learning Tennis for the past 6 years. She is presently Ranked no.1 in Tamil Nadu girls under 12 category , the tournament hosted by Tamil Nadu Tennis Association. She  ranks  20 in the All India level in the same under 12 category, the tournament hosted by All Indian Tennis Association in January 2012. She won the UCAC Junior girls title on 06.11.2011, organized by Krishna Tennis centre, Chennai. She was the runners up  in doubles under 14 girls tennis tournament held at Solapur , Maharashtra on 26.09.2011.

P.PREETHI - KARATE CHAMPION

The first International GOJU RYU Karate Championship 2011 was organized by the Institute of Karate and Holistic Health on July 30th and 31st in Chennai.

P.Preeti of class 10 won the championship at the International level Karate Championship. She participated in the 27th Chennai District Karate championship and secured I place in the girls , 14 – 15 yrs category held on 17th & 18th September 2011.

ROWING CHAMP

Niranjan G.Narayanan of Std IX won a gold medal at the 14th Sub Junior National Rowing Championship held at Kolkata between June 2nd  and 5th 2011.The event was hosted jointly by the Bengal Rowing Club, the lake club and the Calcutta Rowing Club.

He is one of the youngest rower’s to have won the gold at this event. Niranjan trains at Madras Boat Club under Coach K. Gajendran.