Sports
Zahira College Mawanella is the leading sport-doing school in the Sabragamuwa Province. It offers first class athletics, soccer, rugby football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, Cricket (Hardball), martial arts carom, swimming, netball and chess. Unlike other Muslim schools, Zahira College Mawanella offers basketball to girls. Thus, it is the one and only Muslim school that offers basketball to girls. There are more than 100 girls in the pool. They play in the Inter House Sports Meet.
The school starts its sports activities with the Inter House Sports Competitions, which is held one in two years. Then, it prepares the students to play in the Divisional, Zonal, and Provincial as well as national levels competitions.
Zahira College Mawanella has students who have set national records in athletics, and received medals in soccer.
Sports activities come under the VP co-Curriculum, the POG, the particular MICs and the Sports Committee Secretary
Basketball Unit
Zahira College is the only school in the Mawanella Education Division that offers basketball, and it is also the only school that offers girls’ basketball in Sri Lanka. Now the school has about 100 boys and 100 girls in the pool. We bring in coaches to train our students.
The girls are trained on Thursdays and Tuesdays, the grade 6 and 7 boys on Mondays and Tuesdays, and the grade 8 boys on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Once the College used to have just a set of folk games for the girls in the inter-house sports meet, but with the introduction of basketball, girls started to have organized games and standard athletic events. Thus, basketball is the safest sporting event the school offers, as the court is in the heart of the school premises.