HI announces new coaching initiative

NEW DELHI: Hockey India has announced the launch of the Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway 2020 which will be conducted in February-March 2020. The programme will see the Level ‘Basic’ and Level ‘1’ coaching courses being conducted across the four zones—South, West, North and East in February 2020, with the Hockey India Level ‘2’ coaching course also taking place later in March 2020.

A simplified education structure consists of a combination of web-based modules and face-toface interactive courses, underpinned by a competency based assessment process, which helps the coaches in progressing to higher levels.

The pathway is divided into 7 levels: Hockey India Level ‘Basic’, Hockey India Level ‘1’, Hockey India Level ‘2’, FIH Level 1, FIH Level 2, FIH Level 3 and FIH High Performance. Once a candidate progresses from the Hockey India Levels, they are then eligible to enroll for the FIH Academy Level 1 course, and so on. In its initial year, this initiative from Hockey India attracted good response from across the country with over 300 candidates applying for each March 2019 and August 2019 phases of the pathway.

Hockey India had launched the first-ever Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway earlier in March 2019, designed with the aim to provide a simplified education structure to help in developing coaches from the grassroots level into world-class coaches of the high performance/international level. With hundreds of candidates having enrolled for the pathway in 2019, the programme provided certification to candidates including young hockey coaches who are already coaches or wish to pursue coaching as a career; along with NIS-qualified coaches, and former hockey players.