Sports

Mandoulides Schools give students with the opportunity to attend Sports Academies that aim at providing an integrated education and cultivate their skills.

In the Sports Academies of the Schools:

• The trust we have placed in the Schools’ standards and experience is substantiated.
• Training is provided by highly qualified and experienced coaches.
• Classes are carried out in the Schools’ state of the art facilities.
• Classes are held in a safe environment.
• Students are transported using a school bus service.
• Parents save precious time.

1st - 12th grade students
Venue: Mandoulides Schools
Academy Supervisor: Fotis Stefanidis
Head Coach: Diaz Luis Alexey

The main objective of the volleyball academy is, through systematic work, for Mandoulides Schools to become a role model school in the teaching of girls’ and women's volleyball. For this reason, participants have the opportunity during the training sessions to:

• Improve general fitness.
• Improve the technical elements of the sport.
• Be entertained.
• Be educated.
• Cultivate team spirit and celebrate partnerships.
• Learn to set goals and achieve them.

Registration
Form

Pre-Kindergarten - 6th grade students
Venue: Star Pool Center
Academy Supervisors: Chrysafis Vaggelakakis, Yiannis Natsios

The Swimming Academy operates in the state of the art Star Pool Center pool with highly qualified coaches - swimming instructors and caters to children from 4 to 12 years of age.

The objectives of this academy are for the students to:

• Learn to be safe in water.
• Properly learn the technique of swimming.
• Make swimming an asset and a way of life.
• Improve general fitness.
• Improve individual abilities.
• Be entertained.

This academy uses a five-level swimming learning program. Each level has a different degree of difficulty and different objectives. The initial placement of children in levels is carried out according to age and by evaluating their existing swimming skills.

Registration
Form

Kindergarten - 12th grade students
Venue: Mandoulides Schools
Academy Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaidis

The objective of the Mandoulides Basketball Academy (MBA), that was founded in 1994 is to promote talented athletes, while shaping proper character and cultivating their physical and mental health.

MBA acts as the incubator for Mandoulides Schools’ teams: School, Boys, Teen and Young Men (which has won three world titles and eight national championships without defeat). Dozens of student - athletes, including Harry Markopoulos, Nikos Zisis, Sophocles Schortsanitis, Savvas Iliadis, Kostas Sloukas, have participated in the National Teams of all categories, achieving Pan European distinctions and confirming the quality of our programs from younger ages up to the Men’s Team, which participates in the championship of the Third National Division.

Registration
Form

Day Care Center - 12th grade students
Venue: Tziolas Soccer Club
Academy Supervisor: Fotis Stefanidis

The aim of this academy is to introduce children to the worldwide sport of soccer, while shielding them from any adverse attitudes sometimes associated with some followers of the sport. In a spirit of solidarity and mutual support, focusing on principles and virtues such as discipline, fighting spirit, hard work, persistence and passion, we teach students to cooperate with others of their age and to socialize while setting goals, both individual and group.

Highly qualified and experienced coaches of the Schools impart their knowledge of the “King of Sports” to its protagonists. Mandoulides Schools’ Soccer Academy, having now built solid foundations in shaping young students’ attitude towards sports, continues its efforts unabated, to ensure that more and more students come to love sports through soccer.

Registration
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Pre-Kindergarten - 6th grade students
Venue: Mandoulides Schools
Academy Supervisor: Alexandros Nikolaidis

Tae: Leg techniques
Kwon: Arm techniques
Do: Philosophy, the athlete’s spirit

The aim of this program is for students to come to love exercising first and foremost; to learn to respect the team’s rules; and to respect the teacher.

In self-defense, the athlete is taught to protect and defend himself or herself from any attack.

In forms (poomsae), the athlete is taught defensive and offensive movements with balance and rhythm against an imaginary opponent. Finally, in the race technique, the athlete tries to earn points by various methods and learns to compete within an 8x8m arena, wearing helmet and protective chest, mouth, and shin guards.

Registration
Form

Kindergarten - 6th grade students
Venue: Drosia Tennis Club
Academy Supervisor: Andreas Zouridakis

The Tennis Academy is devoted to ensuring that more and more students come to love sport through tennis.

A child who starts to play tennis from the age of 4 to 5 years improves his or her self-esteem and learns how to handle situations under pressure, strategically and with full awareness of the parameters of each situation.

Objectives of this academy are for students to develop:

• Hand-eye coordination leading to overall kinetic skill.
• Balance and body coordination.
• Improved acceleration, speed, agility and the flexibility.
• Self-discipline, understanding the importance of cooperation and team spirit.

Registration
Form

Cultural Athletics Association
Evangelos Mantoulidis

Within the framework of the Olympic Education program, Olympic Medalists and Paralympics Medalists have visited Mandoulides Schools.