A man with a cool head and a firing heart, a proud champion with a charming smile that epitomizes humility, Heshan Unamboowe has been synonymous with Sri Lankan aquatics for the past decade. Now with just only three months to reach the pinnacle of his career – 2012 London Summer Olympics, I thought of unleashing the tale of this extraordinary sportsman. Heshan got into the waters of Trinity College as  [ Read More ]

Trinity 1st XI Cricket Fixtures & Results of the 2011/2012 Cricket Season: The Big Match 2012: 9th & 10th March : Big Match Encounter Vs. St. Anthony’s College – Asgiriya Stadium 17th March : Limited Overs Encounter Vs. St. Anthony’s College – Katugasthota   Trinity College Cricket 1st XI 2011/2012 Squad: Niroshan Dickwella (Captain) Janishka Premasinghe (V. Captain) Akkila Jayasundara Heshan Wanniarachchi Alvin Fernando Dinuk Wikramanayake Rajitha Jayathunga Bhagya Palihawadana Lakshitha Dassanayake  [ Read More ]

Its Rugby time again. The favorite pastime of Trinitians young and old!!! Lions from all age groups, from clubs to the dominant males will ruck and maul and revel in the mud in a game they love!!! Kickoff is at 11.00 am at the Lion’s den in Pallekelle. Trinity will showcase 250 Ruggerites through the day. A prelude to the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ at 3.30 pm, will be the  [ Read More ]

“Though the road takes you East, though the road takes you West,  Here in Kandy you’ll find the school that is the best.”   Vote of thanks delivered by the Senior Prefect T.B. Marambe, at the Trinity College Kandy Prize Giving held in the College Quadrangle on February, 1938:   Your Excellency, ladies and gentlemen, My great predecessors could not in their time, Make a flattering speech through the channels  [ Read More ]

The Trinity College Swimming Team has set a new record scoring over 1000 points at the 2012 seventh annual Age Group and Novices Swimming Championship organized by the Central Province Aquatic Sports Association. They emerged victorious in the tournament, displaying their supremacy over all the other participated schools. The event took place at the Peradeniya University Swimming Pool at Kandy.   This was the seventh consecutive time they emerged as  [ Read More ]

Sajjad Hassan is a talented Trinitian who started his musical journey during his days in the school. Even though his ambition before a strange punishment in grade 3 was to be a doctor, but his dreams changed drastically on that day. Everyone gets this punishment during their schooldays at least once, but for most of the people the punishment is quite different. Usually the punishment for repeatedly talking in the  [ Read More ]

PERSONALITY: Given the Kandyan upbringing of H.B. Abeyratne (HB), any outsider to Trinity College Kandy (TCK) circles may have the inclination to surmise that his initials stand for Heen (or Herath) Banda. It is not to be, for he was born to the well-known, affluent and anglicized Colombo parents Dr. & Mrs. L.O. Abeyratne and hence named Hilary Bertrand. After a distinguished school career at TCK, where he won the  [ Read More ]

Kumar Sangakkara yet again manages to grab the headlines of our website with another spectacular feat. He has been named as the newest member of the Marylebone Cricket Club World Cricket Committee (MCC WCC). Aged 34, he becomes the youngest member ever and the second Sri Lankan to be in this prominent and prestigious committee. Sangakkara is currently ranked the no.1 Test Batsman in ICC Rankings and is a highly  [ Read More ]

Ever since I first went for the school show of Thrithva Ranga, way back when I was in Grade 8 (2004), it has become an annual event in my calendar along with the Bradby Shield. In the Thrithva Ranga held way back in 2004, I can remember there was something to do with army soldiers climbing down from the top of the hall to kidnap the president. Even though I  [ Read More ]

  It is with deep sadness that we inform the passing away of Mr. Vipula Janashantha, the beloved Kandyan Dancing Master-In-Charge of Trinity College Kandy. He joined the academic staff on 1st January 1990 and served the college for 21 years until his sudden demise due to a heart attack on the morning of 10th November 2011. He led the Trinity Drum & Dance Troupe to win national as well as  [ Read More ]