Twelve represent the country in Basketball, Badminton, Football, Scrabble, Chess, Swimming, Squash and Rowing Gateway’s Sharo Perera captains Sri Lanka

At a time when the school celebrates its 25th anniversary, Gateway College has made a significant contribution to the development of sports in Sri Lanka by having twelve of their young students represent the country in 2022.  

Sharo Perera was recently chosen to lead the Sri Lankan team to tour Malaysia to play for the Basketball Asia Cup. 

The Chairman of Gateway attributes this success to the dedicated services of the school’s coaches, many of whom also train national squads and the continuous investments made over the years to develop world class sporting infrastructure.   

Basketball – Sharo Perera

Sharo brought honour to his alma mater by being the first Gateway basketballer to captain the country. He was the leading scorer for Sri Lanka in the recently held FIBA 3×3 U17 Asia Cup 2022.   

Another student of Gateway, Gihansa Nakandalage, narrowly missed out on the opportunity to represent the Girls’ team.   

Badminton – Rashmi Mudalige, Vishvani Wanniarachchi and Natasha Gunasekara

Rashmi and Vishvani have been selected to participate in Badminton Asia U17, U15 junior Championships later this month in Thailand. Natasha will be in the team going to Maldives for the Lining Maldives International Challenge.   

Football – Samunu Kaggodaarachchi

Samunu was selected for the Under 20 Sri Lankan National Football Squad that toured India to play in the SAFF U20 Championship. Samunu was not only the first Gateway student to represent the Sri Lankan National men’s team in football but was also the first international school student to represent his country in football.   

Scrabble – Adeesha Dissanayake

Adeesha represented the country at the World Youth Scrabble Championship for the fifth consecutive year this year.   

Chess – Nabil Nazar Mohamed and Brijesh Saravanabavan

Nabil and Brijesh represented the country at the Under 16 Olympiad Chess Championship that was held recently in Azerbaijan. Incidentally, Nabil recorded the best performance for Sri Lanka by scoring 5.5 out of 9 games. Nabil also represented Sri Lanka at the World Youth Chess Championship and there too he recorded the best performance for team Sri Lanka. He also participated at the World Chess Olympiad.

   
Swimming– Hiruki De Silva

Hiruki is among the four swimmers who have just been selected to represent Sri Lanka at the 8th FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru.   

Squash - Bihandu Nanayakkara and Manuth Dassanayake

Bihandu Nanayakkara and Manuth Dassanayake represented Sri Lanka at the Asian Junior Individual Squash Championships 2022 that was held in Thailand. In the recently concluded Junior Nationals, Manuth became the Under 13 Champion, Bihandu secured the third place in Under 15 and the new entrant, Ravith Mendis secured the second place in Under 9.   

Rowing - Mithyl Wickramasinghe

Mithyl Wickramasinghe has been selected for the Junior National Pool for Rowing (U16) and is currently undergoing training.