Overview At AIS Israel, the following philosophy: Everyone and anyone can be an athlete, is the most important basic premise. Within the AIS school sports program, student athletes learn the values associated with discipline, performing under stress, teamwork, sacrifice, commitment, effort, accountability, citizenship, sportsmanship, confidence, and leadership. AIS realizes the important role athletics plays in a student’s life and has built a program that caters to the student athlete. Students work hard in athletics, which facilitates and coincides with their abilities academically. AIS Students have an opportunity to participate in variety of sports teams including: High School Teams are a large part of the AIS experience, with more than half of the high school student’s participating on at least one sports team. The positive characteristics an athlete can learn from being on a team are endless. At AIS, team members learn: responsibility, discipline, teamwork, etc. Teams are the window to the school showing the world what the student has learned. AIS teams represent the school at local tournaments and games in Israel and the ISST tournaments in other countries throughout Europe. | Fall Season: Soccer and Volleyball | (end of August – beginning of November) | | Winter Season: Basketball, and Swimming | (beginning of November – beginning of March) | | Spring Season: Softball, Baseball, and Tennis | (beginning of March – middle of May) | * Students who are 13 years old or older by September 1st of the school year may also participate on these teams under the coaches discretion. Practices take place after school, between 3:15 – 5:00 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday. Games most often take place on Sundays, with occasional practice game during the week. AIS Varsity Teams participates in a local league, known as the Peace League, during the season and an international tournament, know as the International Scholastic Schools Tournaments (ISST) at the end of each season. Middle School | Fall Season: Basketball and Tennis | (end of August – beginning of November) | | Winter Season: Soccer and Tennis | (beginning of November – middle of February) | | Spring Season: Baseball, and Softball | (middle of February – middle of May) | Peace League Peace League was founded in order to bring together groups of schools and students in the area, to participate in a healthy competition and a variety of activities, both cultural and athletic and by doing so encourage good relations between them. This is the only youth league is Israel that people from all religions and nationalities are participating on a regular basis. The League was founded in the year 2000. We were hoping back then to also have teams from the Palestinian authority participating, but unfortunately, the 4 year Intifada has made it really difficult for them to cross to Israel and for us to go over there and play. We still remain in contact with school from Gaza, Ramallah and Bet Jalla. Hopefully they will participate in the future. These are the teams that participated until now: 1. AIS – American International School, Israel 2. JHS – Jerusalem High School (Palestinian) 3. ANG – Anglican School, Jerusalem 4. TAB – Tabeetha School, The Church Of Scotland, Jaffa 5. LFJ – The French School, Jerusalem 6. NBS – Nazareth Baptist School 7. DIM – Dimona Black Hebrews Community 8. KFS – Kfar Saba Soccer Club 9. TZB –Tzur Baher School, East Jerusalem 10. ISW – Isawei School, East Jerusalem 11. MEEI – Nazareth Educational Institute The Peace League games take place every Sunday, mainly on AIS grounds. Each week we get something between 100 – 200 students to come and play. These are our seasons: September - November HS Soccer MS Basketball ES Basketball December – March HS Basketball MS Soccer ES Soccer March – May HS Softball MS Softball
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