“You don't win silver, you lose gold!”

These were the words of an Olympian after coming second in the 100m sprint.

Games at the Doon School are played with much fervour and passion. There is emphasis on regular exercise and physical

fitness. All games are supervised by masters.

Team spirit and the desire to give the best performance possible are our watchwords.

Nationally-trained coaches come to the school to coach the boys, and the last decade has witnessed a tremendous improvement in the techniques and performance of our boys.

Cricket, hockey and soccer are seasonal sports. Tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, basketball, swimming, boxing, athletics and gymnastics tournaments are also built into the calendar.

The boys who are selected for the School team represent the school at the Council meets, Indian Public School Conference (IPSC) meets, invitational competitions held by various schools, District, State and National levels (if selected). The school team also occasionally tours schools in India and abroad to play friendly matches and gain valuable experience and exposure.

IAYP (International Award for Young People), which replaced DEAS (The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme), is pursued with great enthusiasm by many students and the programme continues to churn out bronze, silver and gold medals to the meritorious.

The RLSS (Rashtriya Life Saving Society) is a national award given to those boys who are trained in rescue and first aid operations in water. This programme has been restarted and is attracting a good number of boys.

Games Blazer : Details of this award are available in the “Codes & Policies Book”

Latest News:

Golf in Dubai

Growing in popularity, Golf players have had the chance to develop their skills further this winter. The trip to Dubai, enabled boys to have an extensive coaching week at the Butch Harmon Academy. The boys saw the training styles of top international players such as Tiger Woods, Rory McElroy and Luke Donald. The boys also got to play on the ELS Golf Course which is one of Dubai’s most prestigious ‘trophy’ courses.

Pre- cricket season tour to Calcutta

The U17 side toured Calcutta this winter as part of the warm up pre season strategy. Whilst only winning one of their four matches, this ‘young’ side in terms of age and experience, had learned much to build upon for the 2012 season.
Good play came from Adhiraj Singh, Kabir Sethi and Rishhabh Raj Das.

Dehradun wins the State Youth Basketball

The school beat Rookee in the 8th Uttarkhand State Youth Basketball 53-30.
Congratulations to Adhiraj Thakran, Sehaj Jouhal and Vinayak Chaudhary, who represented Dehradun.

Dosco wins Gold Medal in U19 tournament

Congratulations to Samarjit Singh, from Kashmir House and who lives in Lucknow. He has won the gold medal in the U19 Uttarakhand Inter-School Shooting Championship between 4th and 6th September and is only in C form!
Samarjit is preparing for the U18 Indian team as well as the All India Inter- School Shooting Championship to be held in Pune.

Outstanding IPSC Soccer results 2011

The Doon School participated for the first time in the IPSC Soccer Tournament held in Raipur.

The team beat Lawrence School Lovedale 1-0.

Aahan Menon was the highest soccer of the tournament and he together with Ashish Rao and Tushar Gupta have been selected to represent the IPSC Soccer Team in the National Tournament.

IPSC Table Tennis Championship and National Games Selection

The school came second in the U14 and U17 categories and third in the U19 categories in this tournament held at the end of September 2011.
Congratulations to Chitanya, Kanav and Raghav Kothiwal who have been selected to represent the IPSC team in their respective categories at the National School Games in January 2012.

Badminton success at the IPSC tournament

Congratulations to Abhishek Parasrampuria, who won the U17 District Doubles Championship and was runner up, in the individual championships in the U17 and U19’s. The first team reached the finals before losing to Lawrence School, Lovedale but gained a silver medal.
Success at U14: The team beat Delhi Public School in the finals and Shashwat Agarwal reached the semi-finals in the individual U14 category.
U17 success: Kabir Sethi won a silver medal in the individual category.

Basketball team gets to U16 Districts

The school U16 basket ball team reached the District U16 semi-finals, before being knocked out against Welham Boys School.

IH Soccer 2011

It is Jaipur House which wins the Junior and Senior Inter-House Soccer Cup 2011.

Congratulations to all the boys, who are proving that team works counts across all age groups.

Intensive RLSS (life saving) training camp at Doon

This year the course was conducted by Admiral Sharma, President of the RLSS. Eighteen boys qualified as Life Savers. This is the highest number of boys in the last two years to have completed this course, which took place over several days. As Agni Raj Singh, said ‘We also had our endurance, CPR and written tests on the same day which almost everyone did well in and attained the standard of ‘Lifesaver’. Finally, we all took the Lifesaving Oath in which we swore to help anyone in need and live up to the duties that we had trained for so hard.’

More Soccer Success

Congratulations to the First Team on winning their second match of the term against RIMC. Arjun Parmar from Tata House was the goal scorer and the team won 1-0.
On 31st August, the U17 soccer team played their second match in the Council league and won by a convincing 3-0 against Raj Ram Mohan Ray Academy. Siddhant Sachdev scored two of the goals.

Soccer team wins first fixture

Congratulations to the School Team, who beat Asian School in the first interschool soccer fixture of the season. The team also drew 3-3 against the Old Boys on Saturday 13 August in a hard-fought game. A massive monsoon cloudburst brought the game to a slightly early conclusion when honours were even.

Singapore Open Shooting Championship

Congratulations to Samarjit Singh who is in Kashmir House and lives in Lucknow. He achieved 9th position in the Singapore Open Shooting Championship, just outside the top eight that included two Commonwealth Games medal winners from Singapore and one CWG medal winner from Malaysia. Samarjit beat the entire junior national team of Singapore which was also competing in the Championship.

Dosco in Basketball Junior Nationals

Congratulations to Vikram Gill, who won a place in the team representing Uttarakhand. The team beat Himachal Pradesh and Haryana, but lost to Orissa. Vikram is in Oberoi House and lives in Patiala.

Doon wins the U18 Tennis 12th Uttarakhand State Open Tennis Tournament

The following are the results of the 12th Uttarakhand State Open Tennis Tournament held at the Shanti Tennis Academy and ONGC Tennis courts between 6th and 8th May 2011:

In the Under 14 Doubles event Yuvraj Naithani and Devang Mehra reached the Semi-finals
In the Under 18 Singles Category:
o Arush Sood reached the Semi-finals, and
o Divij Budhraja won the State Championship. Divij also received cash vouchers worth Rs. 1500.

Divij is planning to apply to the US and the UK for university and he is currently considering Babson College and Warwick, UK amongst other options.