S. Thomas’ Water polo is ready to fight for their alma-mater as they face off against archrivals Royal College at the annual Roy-Tho encounter for the 29th Dr. R. L. Hayman, on the 1st and the 8th of October 2022 at the Sugathadasa Swimming Pool Complex.
Bringing back the missing excitement and colours of blue and black flags after 2 long years to Suga, STC is ready add on to their overall tally of 16 wins with their last coming in 2016 (2017 ended in a draw). Royal did go back to back in 2018 and 2019, so the Thomians will want to get back into the challenge and avoid a hattrick of defeats.
>> Photos – S. Thomas’ College – Water Polo Team 2022
S. Thomas’ College senior team captain 19-year-old, Dirhean Dias, who plays left wing position for his team, speaking to ThePapare said,
“Definitely bringing the Dr. R. L. Hayman trophy home to Mount Lavinia is our goal. We lost it for 2 years and then we didn’t play for it for another 2, so this year we owe it to those teams to give it our all and leave everything in the pool.”
Head Coach of the unit is Dulan Peiris, who has the services of Sachitha Jayathilake as Assistant Coach.
S. Thomas’s Senior Team
Dirhean Dias © – Left Wing, Seevali Gurusinghe – Goalkeeper, Talib Mansoor – Right Wing, Santhush Kalansooriya – Prop, Aaqir Zuhair (VC) – Left Bar, Aiden Tissera – Prop, Migara Gurusinghe – Center, Yumal Bollegala – Right Bar, Shreshta Anthonisz – Center, Chariya Kurukualsooriya – Prop, Nithish Perera – Left Wing, Nehemiah Krishnaswamy – Right Wing, Deshan De Mel – Goalkeeper, Haritha Sugathadasa – Right Wing, Anuk Wijegunaratne – Left Bar
The junior STC team fighting for the Mahinda Liyanage Challenge Trophy will be led by Captain Abiru Galaboda.
S. Thomas’ Junior Team
Abiru Galaboda, Shehran Nawaz, Daruka Ahangama, Tayshaun De Alwis, Mckyle Haron Bryan Karunaratne, Dihen Udumalagala, Affan Roomy, Shaveen Nanayakkara, David de Simon, Eashana Arith Salgado, Anuga Perera, Shahen Meegama, Dhruv Perera, Randhir Attanayake, Dinuk Wickremasinghe, Michael Gunawardena, Jayden Dob, Nihilash Gunatheepan
- Head Coach – Dulan Peiris
- Assistant Coach – Sachitha Jayathilake.
