St Michael's College played an impressive first two matches on the opening day of the ISSA three-day basketball tournament.

In the first match against Deutsche Schule London the Tenbury-based side emerged victor by 44-39. However, they were more convincing in the second match against the combined team Deutsche Schule and Southbank International School London with a score of 43-16 to St Michael's.

Friday morning was a different story, St Michael's played against five-times winners the International School of Aberdeen, whose history throughout the tournament has been one of winning.

Even with this in mind St Michael's went out to win and for the first quarter it seemed like this was a possibility.

The ISA changed players and tactics throughout and in the end they were the stronger team. This does not diminish the effort from the St Michael's team as they all played excellent basketball. The final score was 60-34 to ISA. Later the ISA coach congratulated St Michael's on their team and on an impressive game.

St Michael's second match of the day was against Lycee Francais, a very impressive team with a number of large players. Their play was close "man to man" marking, blocking as much as possible. Again St Michael's did manage to break away a number of times and the score ended 45-55 to Lycee.

St Michael's final game was on Saturday morning, the play-off for third and fourth place.

St Michael's opponents were Rabat American School and this was possibly one of the most exciting matches St Michael's played in. The game was fast, and end to end with both teams fighting hard for their position. It ended with Rabat winning the match 42-36 and St Michael's taking fourth place overall.

All of St Michael's team played excellent basketball and it is difficult to select the best players however, Daniel Aranda was selected by the coaches of the other teams as part of the 'All Tournament Team' for 2003.