Sports

Students: Kindergarten - 8th Grade

Venue: Mandoulides Schools
Academy Supervisor: Dimitrios Nikolaidis

The objective of 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 our student-athletes, including Charis Markopoulos, Nikos Zisis, Sophocles Schortsanitis, Savvas Iliades, Savvas Kamperidis, Diamandis Slaftsakis, Andreas Christodoulou, Ioannis Kouzeloglou, Stavros Toutziarakis, Kostas Sloukas, Vasilis Christides, 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.

Students: Day Care Center - 12th Grade
Venue: Tziolas Soccer Club
Academy Supervisor: George Deliyiannis

This Academy aims to introduce children to sports while protecting them and shielding them from any adverse attitudes sometimes associated with some followers of the sport in the contemporary era. 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 children to cooperate with their peers and to socialize while setting both individual and group goals.

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

Students: 1st Grade - 12th Grade
Venue: Mandoulides Schools
Academy Supervisor: Diaz Luis Alexey

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

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

Students: Pre-Kindergarten - 6th Grade
Venue: Mandoulides Schools
Academy Supervisor: Pagona Papadopoulou

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

The main objective of this program is for students to come to love exercising first and foremost, to learn to respect the team’s rules, and of course, the teacher.

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

In Poomsae uniforms, the athlete is taught different defensive and offensive moves with balance and rhythm against an imaginary opponent. Finally, in the race technique, the athlete tries to earn points through various methods and learns to compete within an 8x8 sq.m arena, wearing protective clothing, such as a safety shield, helmet, dentures, and shin guards.

Students: Pre-Kindergarten - 6th Grade
Venue: Star Pool Center
Academy Supervisors: Yiannis Natsios

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

The objectives of this Academy are for the students to:

• Learn to manage water safely.
• Properly learn the technique of swimming.
• Make swimming an asset and a way of life.
• Improve their general fitness.
• Improve their individual skills.
• 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 their age and by evaluating their existing swimming skills.

Kindergarten - 6th grade students
Venue: Les Raquettes Tennis Academy
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 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.

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