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News Archives - 2007
K. Shanmugam Cup – Updated 30 Dec 07

Organised by Chong Pang Constituency Sports
Club on 11 & 30 Dec 07, this invitational tchoukball tournament took
place at Chong Pang Community Club. Congratulations to Ping Yi Secondary
School who won the tournament.
The full results can be seen
HERE.
“Intro To Tchoukball” Workshop – Updated 29 Nov 07
TBAS is organizing the above workshop on 10 Dec (Monday).
Please register by emailing your name and contact details to
contactus@tchoukball.org.sg by 5 Dec.
“Play Better Tchoukball” Clinic for Students – Updated 26 Oct 07
TBAS is organizing the above clinic on 19-20 Nov from 1-5pm
for students who have learnt Tchoukball and would like to improve their
skills. The cost is $12 and all participants will get a dri-fit shirt
(worth $10). If you are interested, please email us your name, contact
number and school to
contactus@tchoukball.org.sg. Hurry! The
clinic is limited to the first 50 participants.
Local Tchoukball Tournaments for 2007 – Updated 13 Oct 07
The Schools National Tchoukball Championship 2007 will be
held on the following dates.
"A" Division Boys category - Completed
"B" Division Boys & Girls categories – 2-6 pm, 17th Oct @ Bendemeer Sec
Sch
“C" Division Boys & Girls categories – 2-6 pm, 16th Oct @ Bendemeer Sec
Sch
8 schools will be sending in a total of 18 teams to take part in the
various categories.
Mr Henry Tan, Assistant Director, CCA Sports, CCAB, Ministry of
Education and Mr Ho Mun Wai, Director, Sports Management & Development
Group, Singapore Sports Council will be our Guests of Honours gracing
these occasions on 16 & 17 Oct respectively.
If you are interested, please email
US
for more information.
Tchoukball Association of Singapore (TBAS) is on Facebook – Updated 5th
Oct 07
We can now be found on the popular networking website
Facebook at the below URL:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4998034725
If you have a Facebook account, we encourage you to join our group there
to be updated on tchoukball news.
WGWUC 2007 (9-11 Nov) - Updated 3 Oct 07
FITB will be organizing the below certification courses for
coaches and referees during the above tournament. If you are interested,
kindly email us at
contactus@tchoukball.org.sg to request for the
application form.
1) FITB “B” License Coaching Course (7-11 Nov 07)
2) FITB International Referee Course (7-11 Nov 07)
Tchoukball Premieres On "Little Coach" – Updated 1st Oct 07
The Tchoukball episode of “Little Coach” will
premiere on Kids Central at 1.30 pm, 27 October (Saturday).
Do tune in to see our young national player, Timothy teaching the show
host how to play Tchoukball!
SZPSSC Tchoukball Carnival 2007 Cup –
Updated 24 Sep 07
TBAS partnered South Zone Primary School Sport Council (SZPSSC) to
organize the above event on Saturday, 15 Sep at Pei Tong Primary School
from 8am to 1pm. A total of 13 primary schools signed up and went
through 3-4 sessions of tchoukball training for their selected players.
The list of primary schools involved are Ai Tong, Hong Wen, Marymount
Convent, New Town, Pei Tong, Zhong Hua, River Valley, Kheng Cheng,
Cedar, Pei Chun, Radin Mas, Jing Shan, Zhang De.
Congratulations to New Town Primary and Marymount Convent for winning
the Boys and Girls categories respectively. Please click
HERE for the results.

Boys Category Winner – New Town Primary

Girls Category Winner – Marymount Convent.
Malaysia Tchoukball Open (MTO) –
Updated 11 Sep 07
The above event took place in Malacca from 24-26 Aug 07. Singapore sent 2
teams for the Men category and 1 team for the Women category.
The Women’s team came in 2nd and the Men’s team finished in 3rd in their
respective categories. You may click
HERE for the MTO results.
Schools National “A”
Division Boys Tchoukball Championship 2007 Cup
The above
event was held at Praisehaven Indoor Sports Hall on 1st Aug.
Congratulation to Nanyang Junior College for winning this inaugural
championship ! We look forward to even more JC’s participation next
year. More photos can be found at
HERE.
 1st : NYJC!
Under 18 Tchoukball
Cup
Nearly 90
youth players turned up to represent their teams in the above
tournament. Teams came from youth centres, constituency sports clubs and
various secondary schools and junior colleges. Please click
HERE to see more photos and results.
The event is also covered by youth.sg. Click
HERE to check it out!
Congratulations to Fiery Warriors and YDC
Girls for coming in as champions in their respective categories.


World Games 2009 Video
Tchoukball is featured in this short video clip at the 1min 3
sec mark. Please click
HERE to have a look at the scale and size
of World Games 2009.
Local Tchoukball Tournaments for 2007
1) U18 Tchoukball Cup will be held on 2nd July. A total
of 7 Boys and 4 Girls/Mixed teams have
registered for this event. Click
HERE for more information.
2) The Schools National Tchoukball Championship 2007 will be held
on the following dates.
"A" Division Boys & Girls categories - 1st Aug
"B" & "C" Division Boys & Girls categories - 12th-13th Sep
3) A Tchoukball Open League is being planned for Nov-Dec 2007.
If you are interested, please email
US
for more information.
Tchoukball in Sports Education Programme (SEP)
The Sports Education Programme (SEP) is a collaborative partnership
between Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and the Ministry of Education
(MOE). They will be giving $10,000 in matching funding to any interested
schools who wish to have tchoukball programme in their school. Click
HERE
to find out more about SEP on the SSC's website.
The programme code for our "Learn To Play" School Workshop is
0531. Click
HERE to find out more !
Tchoukball National Team Selection (Phase 3)
33 players have been shortlisted for the national team
selection for the Malaysia Tchoukball Open (MTO). Please click
HERE for more info.
World Games Warm-Up Championship 07 (WGWU07)
Kaohsiung Organising Committee (KOC) for the World Games 09
will be organising this event from 9-11 Nov this year. Singapore will be
sending Men's & Women's teams to participate and prepare for next year's
qualifier for World Games 2009.
The top two asian teams will qualify for the Tchoukball event in the World
Games 2009.
Please click
HERE for information on World Games 09.
The World Games are held under the auspices of the International World
Games Association (IWGA), and comes under the patronage of the
International Olympic Committee. Click
HERE to read more.
New Webpage - Tchoukball Articles
We have added a new page "Articles" under the TBAS link above. There you
will be able to read local media articles on the growth of Tchoukball in
Singapore. Check out the
latest article on Tchoukball from the
April issue of Time Out Singapore magazine!
Singapore's First Public Tchoukball Court!
TBAS is proud to announce the location of the first ever public
tchoukball court, located at Kallang Bahru estate. Check out the yellow
painted lines for tchoukball.

Thank you, Jalan Besar Town Council for your help !
SPF Beach Tchoukball Competition
The D Division, Singapore Police
Force organised a Beach Party & Sports Fiesta for their personnel on 14
Mar at Siloso Beach, Sentosa. Beach tchoukball was one of the 3 beach
sports featured and 10 teams signed up to take part. TBAS provided
officials for the event.
Congrats to team GISS and team P.I.T.A for coming in as Champion and
Runner-Up respectively.

Click
HERE for more photos from the event!
Learn To Play Tchoukball!
If you are interested to learn to play Tchoukball, TBAS is partnering
Braddell Heights YEC to organise these clinics 9am - 11am every Saturday
in the month of March. Come on down and try it out ! It's FREE and we
will be most glad to share with you.
For travelling directions, please click
HERE.
Hong Kong Tchoukball Championship 2007 (HKTC 07)
Singapore will be sending a contingent of 32 players and officials to take
part in the above event on 3 & 4 Mar. We have a total of 1 Men's team, 1
Women's team and 2 Youths teams to take part in 3 of the categories.
APTBF Singapore Tchoukball Championship 2007 (STC
07)
TBAS hosted our very first international Tchoukball event on 3 & 4 Feb
2007. Please click
HERE for the results.
Carl Lewis plays
tchoukball!He
came, he saw, he conquered ... well not quite but he played tchoukball!
On 3 Dec 06, TBAS, partnering National Youth Council (NYC), introduced
the sport of tchoukball to Mr Carl Lewis over a short session. For more
information, please click
HERE.
Tchoukball as a Sports CCA in schools
Tchoukball has been assigned a Sports CCA code in the MOE CCAB's Schools
Sports Cockpit System. That means that it can be set up as a CCA in
schools and students will be able to gain CCA points for their
participation. The code for Tchoukball is CA071.
Society Changes its Name
We are pleased to inform you that we are now officially known as the
Tchoukball Association of Singapore (TBAS). Do check out our logo on
top. You can call us Tchoukball Singapore for short!
Inter School "C" Division Tchoukball Competition
2006
5 secondary schools sent their
Boys and Girls teams for the very first Schools "C" Division
Competition, held at Ping Yi Secondary School on 20 Oct 06.
Who will be the very first winner?
Will it be Springfield Secondary, Dunman Secondary, Bendemeer Secondary,
Ping Yi Secondary or Bedok View Secondary? Click
HERE to find out the results.
Asia Pacific Tchoukball Tournament 2006 - Taiwan
Singapore sent our first ever Men's and Women's
national teams to participate in the 2nd Asia Pacific Tchoukball
Tournament 2006 held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Up against world class
competition from Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong, our Singapore teams did us
proud by playing their best. |