Around 400 athletes featuring in U-16 coaching and training camps
Sports Board Punjab’s (SBP) committees conducted trials at different venues of the city to select players for six games’ month-long U-16 coaching and training camps.
Sports Board Punjab’s (SBP) committees conducted trials at different venues of the city to select players for six games’ month-long U-16 coaching and training camps.
Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh visited Nishtar Park Sports Complex Gymnasium Hall, Punjab Football Stadium and Coaching Center and inspected volleyball, power-lifting, snooker, football, athletics and wrestling trials thoroughly. He was accompanied by Director Admin Javed Chohan, Director Sports Shahid Nizami and Assistant Director Raeesur Rehman.
The committee heads of all six games briefed the DG about the total number of aspiring young players and the selection procedure. The trial committees picked up 15 snooker players out of 40 participants, 16 power-lifting players out of 60 aspirants, 30 volleyball players out of 50, 33 football players out of over 200 participants and 30 wrestling players out of 80 players.
The DG said these U-16 coaching and training camps are regular feature of SBP’s policy to groom players in all leading games from young age. “We are quite upbeat that these coaching and training camps will prove to be a revolutionary measure for tracing young talented players from all over the province,” he added.
Aulakh said expert and qualified coaches will impart modern training to young players in all six camps. “We will extend best facilities to all camp probables during the duration of camps,” he said. He added that SBP is also taking effective measures for the training of local coaches and trainers.
The DG said all the trials were conducted purely on merit. “These camps will be helpful to a great extent in finding several talented players in different games,” he said adding, “The month-long under-16 coaching and training camps of six games will begin in different cities from mid-September under the auspices of Sports Board Punjab.”
