20/10/2019
One thousand hockey legs today defeated State Champion school of Mizoram 4-2 to register its second success in as many as matches, which ensure the team move to Phase II of prestigious Sub-Jr Nehru cup today in New Delhi. Young forwardline of Mohit, Shoaib, Nitin and Priyansu troubled their rival team's defenders. In the keenly contest match today (Monday, the 21st Oct.), Mizoram took lead early only to see Nitin equalize. Then came a gem from Ankush's direct penalty corner conv...
19/09/2019
One Thousand Hockey Legs' team led by Sunil, have successfully retained Birla Institute of Technology and Science Open Sports Meet (BOSM) Cup today in Pilani, Rajasthan. They beat Delhi-based team 1-0 in the final. The winning goal was struck by captain Sunil, a former National Hockey Academy incumbent. OTHL has won the previous edition on its maiden entry. Next year perhaps our boys can look for hattrick.
...30/07/2019
Big thumbs up for two OTHL boys -- Nakul and Ritik Singh. Hailing from same school, both have made everyone of us happy and proud. The duo from Govt Boys Senior Secondary School, Saket, which adopted our OTHL program as early as OTHL inception, got selected for a Delhi's prestigious educational institution.
Sri Ram College of Commerce, popularly known as SRCC, is undoubtedly the best address for any aspiring commerce student, and desired destination for parents for their wards...
14/07/2019
There is a good news. Five of our talented boys have made a big leap in their hockey career. Md. Arbaz, Rahul Sharma, Aditya Kumar, Aniket and Ankhush have cleared tough selection trials for induction into top hockey facility. As a result, the fivesome have recently been selected for the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) Sports Training Centre (STC) in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
These boys will now stay in the SAI's hostel. They will have free boarding and lodging for three ye...
16/06/2019
One Thousand Hockey Legs' team, lead by Vineet Kumar, has left Delhi today to take part in the 9th Hockey India Sub-Junior National Championship (div B). This is the prestigious engagment of our NGO team. OTHL has been taking part in the Hockey India Sub-Junior Nationals since seven years. Brajgopal, who represented OTHL when we first played the Champion in 2014, will be the coach. Its befitting for the Jamia Milia under-graduate student to be part of the team and will be handling technic...
22/05/2019
This is a new vision, which is being implemented with a missionary zeal nowdays. One Thousand Hockey Legs (OTHL) has long been longing to provide a platform for its up and coming players to show case their skills on a firm footing to keep them engaged and focussed. The OTHL has recently come up with a year-long activity that will see action on every week end. Simply, an engaging Series will be held every Saturday, and it will go on for at least ten months.
The id...
18/03/2019
A 56-page booklet entitled 'OTHL JOURNEY 2018' has just been released. The work encaptualtes all activities and achievements of the organization exclusively for 2018. Visiting volunteer-couple from England, Bhavdeep Virdee and Triupti were kind enough to release it amids our kids in Indian Garden on Friday, the 15th March. Our boys who have just completed their annual examinations, assembled on the venue to chart out road map for Summer. The Summer seasons are usually a busy on...
17/01/2019
Government of India has launched a big movement to make sporting culture in the country with many verticals. One of them is to introduce a new Event called Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG). There are 17 disciplines that come under KYIG this year. Hockey being the national game of India nad had always been given priority. Last year, the inaugual event, hockey event was held in Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi. Only age group for hockey team was Under-17. This year, the Govt has added Unde...
13/01/2019
Ghitorni school and Khanpur school top the Senior and Junior categories respectively in the much awaited annual OTHL Cup. All OTHL Subscribed schools play every year in December (winter break) assemble in one ground to play what is famously known as OTHL DELHI CUP. This year was no different. There were problems for play field, and the schools had special classes even during the winter break but these hurdles were overcome and the events are in the last leg or in the business end. ...
28/12/2018
28th December of 2018 marks tenth anniversary of globally acclaimed One Thousand Hockey Legs. Exactly on this day ten years ago, the not-for-profit organization was registered with NCR of Delhi. Government Boys School Saket, Government Boys school, Begumpur and Hansraj Public School, Ashok Vihar were the first educational institutions that had been taken into the OTHL fold in Delhi. OTHL was first started in Puducherry, and spread to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Kolkata in West Bengal. Two years ...
Developing sustained passion for Hockey by introduction of Hockey to pre and early teenaged children and simultaneously promoting playing sport as a culture and tradition, thereby contributing to develop a sports loving society.