Riam Road Sec School further cements its sporting reputation
MIRI: Riam Road Secondary School ( RRSS) is living up to its status as the sports powerhouse with 10 of its athletes included in the state contingent for the 59th Malaysian School Sports (Athletics) Championships to be held in Pulau Pinang from April 24-28.
RRSS chief executive officer Datuk Dr Fong Onn Min said the school is contributing the largest number of athletes among all the schools in the state.
“I am so happy with our students’ achievements and also grateful of the parents’ full support for the school,” he told The Borneo Post yesterday.
“RRSS advocates hol istic education which is aimed at producing students of high calibre, excelling in all facets of education,” he said.
The 10 outstanding athletes were all gold medallists and/or record breakers at the recent statelevel schools championships held in Kuching.
Two of them - shot putters Zeronnie Felipe Thomas ( Boys Under- 15) and Kee Jeep Wen ( Boys Under-18) - threw 16.81m and 16.24m respectively which surpassed records of the national schools championships.
The other eight are Kish Kong Jia Ming (100m and 200m), Ngo Tze Chang ( javelin), Reymar Manuel Tabari Coney ( 110m and 400m hurdles), Ruby Lee Jia Lu ( long jump and triple jump), Fung Yee Ren (octathlon) and Chloe Thong Yueh (400m and 400m hurdles).
Two RRSS coaches, Leo Li Dapeng and Mawan Lalen, are also part of the state team which will compete in Penang.
The school has been Miri divisional schools champions in track and field since 2010 and their athletes have played a large part in helping Miri capture the state inter-division title numerous times in the last eight years.
Sarawak will be going all out to retain the overall title it lost to Selangor at the upcoming national inter-state meet in Penang.