Sri Lankan School Karatekas to compete at Thailand Meet
The Sri Lanka Schools Karate Do team will leave on February 21 to Thailand to participate in the International Karate Championship – 2025. This tournament will be held in Bangkok, Thailand from February 22 to 25. Seventeen boys and nineteen girls from thirty schools will participate from Sri Lanka.
The team
Boys:
Senarath Peiris (Captain – Bandaranayake MV Gampaha), Aloka Yasarathna (Vice Captain – St. Aloysius Ratnapura), Damsara Amaratunga (Vice Captain – St. Mary’s Kegalle), Senul Vehan Perera (St. Joseph’s Wattala), Sanesh Nikulas Gunasekara (St. Nicholas International School, Negombo), Uthpala Weerasighe (Joseph’s Vaz, Wennappuwa), Neervan Hettiarachchi (Devana Juvam Pavulu School, Wennappuwa), Sasith Wijerathne (Kingswood Kandy), G.D.T.P.L. Ranathunga (Polgahawela St. Bernadette’s M.V.), Sethsara Fernando (Prince of Wales, Moratuwa), Thenuara Balasuriya (St. Benedict’s College, Colombo), Sachintha Sathsara (St. Bernadette’s Adarsha MV, Polgahawela), U.K. Wickramasinghe (St. Aloysius, Ratnapura), Venuja Manumitha Rajakaruna (Ananda College, Colombo), Lakmal Peiris (Madampe Senanayake MMV), Limath Methvin (Ananda College, Colombo), and E.D.K.M.C.S. Karunaratne (Kristudella NS, Tudella).
Girls:
M.K.M. Gayanthika (Captain – Seevali MV, Ratnapura), V.W.T. Kumarathunga (Vice Captain – President’s Balika, Galle), A.M.S.R. Alahakoon (Kandy Girls’ High School), Senuli Chiranaya (Anula Vidyalaya, Nugegoda), Aneeqa Inthisar (Ladies’ College, Colombo), L.V.S. Levangama (Ahalia MMV, Agalawatta), Nikini Amanda Fernando (Holy Family Convent, Bambalapitiya), Kavindaya De Seram (Yatiyanthota Siriwardhana NS), S.A.D.N.D. Wijesinghe (Ave Maria, Negombo), Minradha Gurusinghe (Nimalamaria Balika Vidyalaya), E.M.S.W.M. Edirisinghe (Kurunegala Maliyadeva Balika, Kurunegala), A.G. Duckworth (Ladies’ College, Colombo), M.M.Y. Madigasekara (Maliyadeva Balika, Kurunegala), Thisalya de Silva (Wycherley International School), Bindaya Appuhamy (St. Mary’s, Galle), Peiris Pulle (Liyanagemulla St. Thomas Catholic International School), Imalmi Gunasinghe (Devi Balika, Colombo), R.M.M.N.B. Seneviratne (Kandy Girls’ High School), and R.M.N.D. Rathnayake (Lyceum International School, Nugegoda).
Team Officials
Deputy Education Director (Sports) Upali Amaratunga, Aruna Shantha (Principal, Vidyaloka Galle), Aroshan Predeep Nishanka (Coach – Sports Instructor, Bandaranayake Vidyalaya, Gampaha and Secretary, Sri Lanka School’s Karate Do Association), Quintus Paul (St. Francis MV, Dalugama), Indira Ranaweera (Ganemulla Jayakody MV), Sharika Madawala (Mahara President’s College), Pavithra Ashani (Sri Sangabodi NS, Nittambuwa), and instructor Charka Fernando.
