Training the Body, Growing the Mind 锻炼身体，培养头脑

The swimming season is back! Beginning on March 23, Yew Chung International School of Beijing students from Years 3-12 will have the opportunity to receive instruction from high-level club swimming coaches and to represent the YCIS Beijing Scorpions at school swim meets. 

游泳季又到了！从3月23日起，北京耀中国际学校3-12岁的学生将有机会接受高级俱乐部游泳教练的指导，并代表北京耀中蝎子队参加学校游泳比赛。

The YCIS Beijing swim team - along with the many other sports on offer including basketball, volleyball and football - allows students to improve their physical fitness while engaging in the fun and competitiveness of athletics. Yet in what other ways do sports impart lessons that can be extended to multiple aspects of life? From learning perseverance and endurance, to lessons in victory and defeat, to the need for discipline, teamwork, and utilizing individuals' strengths - there are many ways that athletics helps us to grow emotionally and socially towards positively impacting all facets of life.

北京耀中游泳队，连同篮球、排球、橄榄球等众多体育项目，皆是为了让学生在娱乐竞技的同时提高身体素质。然而，体育运动还能通过其他方式给我们的生活带来启发吗？从锻炼毅力和耐力，体会胜利和失败，到理解纪律、团队精神和发挥个人优势的重要性，体育运动可以帮助我们在情感和人际交往中成长，进而积极影响我们的生活。

Matt McEwan, Athletics Director and Head of Physical Education at YCIS Beijing, explains more.

北京耀中国际学校体育总监兼体育教育主管Matt McEwan解释了更多内容。

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