After two years, the much-awaited Team Raffles Games (TRG) have returned, better than ever. Raffles Press spectated the Volleyball, Fencing and Hockey TRGs, where Rafflesians played hard and fought harder for the glory of the title of Champion House.
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By Claire Jow (23A01B)
Photos courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society
Year after year, each batch of students comes and goes, graduating to make something of themselves in this great wide world. On 23 July, however, as part of RI’s bicentennial initiatives, the alumni of our school’s CCAs – ranging from fresh-faced 20-somethings to middle-aged careermen in their 50s – were invited back to school in an event known as Gryphon Recall.
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By Faith Ho (22A01A) and Natalie Tan (23A01B)
Photos courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society
On 24 May, RI’s Softball Girls team stepped onto the River Valley High School field to play finals against Hwa Chong, whom they had been defeated by in one of the preliminary rounds. Fresh from a stunning victory against 5-time champion ACJC in a nail-biting match, the team were eager to seize this opportunity to clinch the gold and steal back a win from Hwa Chong.
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By Tay Yu Ning (23S06E)
Photos courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society.
Minutes before their match against National Junior College (NJC) on the 19th of May 2022, the members of the Raffles Basketball Girls’ Team were feeling nervous. As previous batches of Basketball Girls had reached the finals and finished overall champions (2019) and first-runner up (2018) respectively, they were feeling the pressure of high expectations.
To make matters worse, the team was not at their full strength. One of their players caught dengue right before the semi-finals, meaning they only had eleven players instead of the typical twelve.
Still, the team proudly stepped onto the basketball court, determined to make the school proud.
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By Anamika Ragu (23A01A) and Loh Zhao Hong (23S03A)
Photos courtesy of Raffles Photographic Society.
25 May 2022: the bus to Sengkang Hockey Stadium was filled with supporters’ heady excitement and whispers of, “Do you think they’ll have to postpone?” amid the rainstorm raging outside.
This was a game of high stakes: the Raffles Hockey Boys were facing off against Victoria Junior College’s (VJC) boys, also known as our fiercest rivals.
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