Youngsters hope to make best use of camp

At least 14 more girls from Govt High School, Bairatu, Bihar, and Birsamunda Vidhyapitha, Rourkela are expected to arrive by Friday. The players have been selected on the basis of their performances in last year’s Nehru sub-junior (under-15), junior (under-17), girls and Champion Colleges tournaments. While the boys will live and train at the Modern School grounds, the girls have been put up at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and will train there. Three sessions, starting at 6 a.m, have been scheduled daily. The trainees will be allowed to use the swiiming pool and the class room facilities at Modern School where Physical Director V. K Baweja will be the Camp Commandant.

Five coaches have been deputed by SAI for the camp: Nusrat Ullah Ansari (National Stadium), Arvind Kumar Vashisht (JNS), Prem Shankar Shukla (Allahabad) and Akhil Kumar Malhotra (Varanasi) will be in charge of the boys while Rajpal Singh and Khushdeep Kaur Baidwan have been assigned to the girls section. Former World Cupper Brigadier Chimni and K. G Kakkar will be the overall incharge. A Pentangular competition will also be held as part of the camp during June 9-13, where two teams shortlisted from the trainees and one team each from PSB (Jalandhar), Air India Academy and Sail Academy (Rourkela) will make the field.