St Vincent's marches into records book

Edwin D'Sa / TNN / Jan 29, 2008, 01:54 IST

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"Winning isn't everything", most great sportspersons would tell you. At St Vincent's high school here, they mouth something similar, only to add: "But losing is!"

PUNE: "Winning isn't everything", most great sportspersons would tell you. At St Vincent's high school here, they mouth something similar, only to add: "But losing is!"
So, St Vincent's has simply made winning a habit, what with 60 inter-school athletic championship titles under its belt since 1941. And the competition is not even remotely snapping at its heels.
Recognition for the school's one-of-a-kind feat now comes in the form of an entry in the Limca Book of Records, which has listed the achievement as a "national record".
St Vincent's won its 60th title last year (2006-07) with 312 points, leaving the runner-up school a good 240 points behind. Its medal haul included 33 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze.

It's been an unbeaten streak that the school has maintained in the inter-school athletic championships it has participated in since 1941. The only time it did not have the crown was from 1993 to 1998 when it did not take part for certain reasons.
Credit for nurturing the wealth of sporting talent in the school over the years goes to the foreign Jesuit priests who ran the institution, the finest among them being the legendary Swiss, the late Fr Alphons Oesch. Such was his dedication towards training sportsmen in track and field as well as in other sporting disciplines, not to mention his coaching in the German language, that several of his students settled abroad would accord top priority to meeting him during their visits to Pune.

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