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The Bank of China (Hong Kong) Bauhinia Bowl Award (中銀香港紫荊盃) is the annual award to member secondary schools of the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Secondary Schools Regional Committee, Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation who qualify under the rules set out below. The establishment of the Award is to encourage participation in interschool sports competitions organised by the Regional Committee. In the 2015 – 2016 season, 263 secondary schools with over 5,800 teams and 46,000 students participated in the 17 sporting competitions organised by the Regional Committee.

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The BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl Award is sponsored by Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, previously by the Omega. The trophy was previously known as the Omega Rose Bowl which dated back to 1965. The title has been changed to BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl since the 2002 – 2003 Season.

Type of schools

The BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl Award will be awarded to the following three types of schools separately.

  • Boys Schools
  • Girls Schools
  • Co-educational Schools

    • In case of doubt in classifying a member school to one of the above categories because of a special situation, the Regional Committee will make the final decision on classification. However, schools concerned will be welcomed to express their views to the Regional Committee either by letter or presence at a Committee Meeting for this purpose.

    The award

    The award is divided into two sections:

    Section One – BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl

    Trophies will be awarded to schools achieving the best all-round performance from all sporting events organised by the Regional Committee each year. A total of 10 trophies will be awarded each year.

    The trophies are all follows:-

    1. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Champion) – Boys Schools
    2. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Second) – Boys Schools
    3. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl The Most Progressive Boys School – Boys Schools
    4. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Champion) – Girls Schools
    5. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Second) – Girls Schools
    6. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl The Most Progressive Girls School – Girls Schools
    7. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Champion) – Co-educational Schools
    8. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Second) – Co-educational Schools
    9. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Third) – Co-educational Schools
    10. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl The Most Progressive Co-educational School – Co-educational Schools

    In addition to the above awards, the following trophies will also be awarded commencing 2006 – 2007 season

    1. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Third) – Boys Schools
    2. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Third) – Girls Schools
    3. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Fourth) – Co-educational Schools
    4. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Fifth) – Co-educational Schools
    5. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Sixth) – Co-educational Schools
    6. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Seventh) – Co-educational Schools
    7. BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl (Eighth) – Co-educational Schools

    Section Two – BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl Sportsboy/Sportsgirl of the Year

    These statuette trophies are awarded to the individual who has contributed greatly to his or her schools' sports in general and has shown outstanding ability in the field of sport during the year. In addition to good all-round achievement in sports, the candidate for the trophy must show a high standard of sportsmanship on and off the field. The candidate must have shown a willingness to help others, some kind of organising capacity, a sense of fair play and must be genuinely interested in furthering the spirit of competition and esprit-de-corps between member schools and Hong Kong Sports in general. Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited has very generously offered a scholarship to each Sportsboy/Sportsgirl of the Year. The trophies for Sportsboy/Sportsgirl of the Year are as follows:

    1. Sportsboy of the Year – Boys Schools
    2. Sportsgirl of the Year – Girls Schools
    3. Sportsboy of the Year – Co-educational Schools
    4. Sportsgirl of the Year – Co-educational Schools

    Teaming and scoring system

    The Teaming and Scoring System is at the official home page of the Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation.

    Sportsgirl of the Year (Co-educational Schools) (up till the Season 2015 – 2016)

    References

    BOCHK Bauhinia Bowl Wikipedia
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