St. Xavier's High School, Kolhapur.

Sports

2004 - Master Veerdhaval Khade won the 31st Junior National Swimming Competition held at Jaipur in Rajasthan and secured 7 gold medals and a silver. He has done his school and his city proud by his epoch making feat. He has also participated in the 59th Senior Aquatic Championship (National) at Thrissur in Kerala. He has been selected for the Commonwealth Games to be held at Melbourne, Australia, Asian Games to be held at Singapore and the South Asian Federation Games to be held at Colombo in Sri Lanka

He received FIE foundation’s Rashtrabhushan award (achievement award) at Govindrao High School in Ichalkaranji at the hands of the Chief Minister – Mr. Vilasrao Deshmukh.

Veerdhaval Khade is the world’s fastest 15 year old swimmer. He clocked 23.92 seconds in 50 metres freestyle and 1m: 54:18s in 200metres freestyle at the National Games in Guwahati, where he bagged six gold, to go with his 52.12s in 100 metres freestyle at the Doha Asian Games. Veerdhaval is faster than any 15 year old in the United States, Europe or Australia. He has already surpassed the 2004 Athens Olympic qualifying time in two events and is at present the closest Indian male on the brink of qualifying for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, He is India’s potential Olympic medal hope in 2012.
Master Raunak Patil stood 1st in the Inter-zonal Lawn Tennis Tournament Conducted by the Kolhapur Lawn Tennis Association.
Master Noel David had secured a gold medal in KARATE at the State level and had been selected for the National level.
Master Aditya Ghotne secured the 2nd place in the State Roller Skating Competition.

St. Xavier’s clinch Loyala cup 2000 - The Loyala Memorial Challenge Cup Football tournament was organised by St.Xavier’s High School. Eleven local schools vied for the honours. In the ensuing tie-breaker, the host Xavier’s clinched the affair in their favour winning the title 4 – 2. The glittering cup for the winners was sponsored by Hemant Sports.
2003 - St.Xavier’s won the Loyala cup once again in the inter-school Football Tournament.
2003 - St.Xavier’s won the Inter-school Subroto Mukherjee Football tournament for boys under 17.
Master Sumeet Yadav received a silver medal for Ind. Kumite event in the 9th All India Kubota Cup Karate Championship held at Priyadarshini Sports Complex, Mumbai.
2004 - Master Ruturaj Shewale secured a bronze medal in the Orange belt in the State Karate Championship organised by OKINAWA Martial Arts Academy and had been selected for the National level.
Master Rishiraj Bhosale represented the State of Maharashtra as a player of Table Tennis team in the 45th National School games organised by the Directorate of Public Instruction (M.P) under the Aesis of school games federation of India. He also participated in the 59th Sub Junior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship held at Indoor Stadium, Ajmer.
2004 - Master Ranveer Jadhav secured the 1st prize in Badminton at the District level and the State level. He was the winner in the Sub-Junior Boys Badminton doubles and Runner-up in the Midget Boys singles. He was selected in the Kolhapur District Badminton team to play for the State Badminton tournament.
He was also the winner in the Midget Boys Singles and Doubles in the late Jawanmal Gandhi Memorial Badminton Tournament organised by the Rotary club.
St.Xavier’s secured the 2nd place in Gymnastics at the district level.
St.Xavier’s won the Badminton Tournament held at Ratnagiri for boys below 14 years at the Divisional level
2004 - St Xavier’s won the Cricket Tournament for boys below 14 years at the Divisional level.
Master Shivraj patil had been selected to play at the State level in Lawn Tennis.
Master Piyush Bendke had been selected in the Maharashtra State Sub-Junior football team.
Amrut Bhosale participated in the International Karate tournament held at Nepal by the Sport Karate Association of Maharashtra and secured a silver medal.
Indrajit Mohite – ex-student of St Xavier’s had been selected for the National Rifle Shooting Competiton.