Hockey India sets up High Performance and Development Committee

 New Delhi, April 8, 2013: Hockey India announced its High Performance and Development Committee for 2013-14. The 15-member committee will be headed by Dr Narinder Batra, secretary general of Hockey India and High Performance director, Hockey India Roelant Oltmans will be the vice-chairman.

The committee has Ajit Pal Singh (former captain of 1975 World Cup winning team), Col. Balbir Singh (former Olympian and national selector), Dilip Tirkey (former captain and Member Rajya Sabha), Sukhvir Singh Grewal, Thoiba Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Dr RP Singh, Surinder Kaur, Saba Anjum, Michael Nobbs (chief coach, national senior men team), Neil Hawgood (chief coach, national senior women team) and Gregg Clark (coach, national junior men team) as its members. Ms Elena Norman, CEO, Hockey India will be the convenor of this Committee. The Sports Authority of India will be the invitee member of this committee.

This committee will work on the high performance and development of hockey at grassroots level in the country. Committee will prepare blueprints and ensures that same pattern of coaching will be followed in the country at all levels.

Since the appointment of Roelant Oltmans as director, High Performance by Hockey India it was a necessary step to form this committee so as to ensure that the game of hockey progresses in the country at all levels.

Dr Batra said that the idea of involving former Olympians, international players and chief coaches in this committee is to get more and more ideas for proper planning in the development of the game.

The Committee will meet quarterly to discuss the progress and share new ideas.