Expert coaches continued to impart modern training to more than 900 athletes of 14 different games at Punjab Sports Department’s Summer Sports Camps being organised at various venues of Nishtar Park Sports Complex (NPSC) on Monday.
Summer Sports Camps of all 14 games including hockey, taekwondo, table tennis, badminton, boxing and tennis are being conducted under the supervision of Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry, who is also evaluating the performances of all coaches and camp proceeding on a daily basis.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry on Monday visited Nishtar Park Sports Complex Gymnasium Hall to witness the badminton and table tennis summer camps, taekwondo camp at Elite Training Center, athletics and football camps at Punjab Stadium, and boxing camp at Contact Body Center. He watched the camp proceedings and asked the young athletes and their parents about the facilities being provided to them during the training camp.
Talking on this occasion, Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry said that the purpose of the Summer Sports Camps is to trace fresh sports talent from across the province. “We are quite upbeat that fresh talented athletes will emerge from Summer Sports Camps and Sports Board Punjab will provide further training to these players to groom them for different national sports teams”.
Director General Sports and Youth Affairs Punjab Khizar Afzaal Chaudhry said that the male and female athletes of 5 to 19 years age groups are participating in Summer Sports Camps which will continue in all districts of the province till August 7, 2025.
More than 67 male and female players attended the hockey Summer Sports Camp on Monday. Qualified Coaches Aslam Shah, Ashraf Javed, Asghar Dogar, Nargis Saeed and Habib-ur-Rehman taught the children basics of hockey. They told the young participants how to grip the hockey and hit the ball. The coaches divided the children into groups and asked them to play exhibition matches to build their stamina and improve physical fitness.
Expert coach Raees ur Rehman is supervising taekwondo camp with 46 athletes, senior coaches Yasmin Akhtar, Asad Jawad Rana and Yasir Bhatti are holding table tennis camp, qualified coach Zarina Waqar is organising badminton camp with over 60 participants, M Ayub is looking after boxing camp while expert coaches Mushtaq Ahmed, Imran Bhatti and Elyas Ahmed are conducting tennis camp where more than 30 athletes are getting top level training.
