25/10/2018
It was an much awaited occasion, which was in pipeline for over a six months. When it did occur, joy flowed everwhere. England's Coventray based hockey team of young and very young visited Jalandhar, a city known for producing hockey stars, sportsfields and sports equipment manufacturing, this week. As a special gesture, the NHA's think thanks have invited Delhi base NGO, One Thousand Hockey Legs' Under-15 team for both socializing and competition. This was one invitation the OTHL...
29/09/2018
ONE THOUSAND HOCKEY LEGs always endeavours to give maximum exposure to our up and coming hockey kids. Tours constitute one of the modes by which our kids get multi-benefits, both direct and indirect. Tours imbibe in them personality development, improves societal outlook and provides platform to showcase their hidden talent.
When the opportunity came from the nationally acclaimed Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), located in PIlani, Rajasthan, we grabbed ...
30/04/2018
Eight One Thousand Hockey Legs boys have made it to the Delhi State team for the Hockey India Junior National Men's Championship (A Division). Its a creditable performance for an NGO to produce so many players for a State team. Defender Kishore Arya and Rohit Gharai, forwards Rahul Gharai, Abhishek Rana and Sunil Kumar, midfielders Sushil Chauhan, Amit Gupta and goalkeeper Md. Zaseem made us proud when they knocked the doors of Delhi Hockey with superlative performance in the selection tr...
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15/02/2018
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: One Thousand Hockey Legs ran its first-ever Fund Raising campaign for 45 days starting from 15th Feb. It ended today. As all are aware, it was a maiden effort to involve people after transforming a NGO into an institution, which almost took 10 years for building. The result is positive and befitting. The subscribers include Olympic Gold medalists, a triple Olympian, WC gold medallist, National Creative Director of a leading Ad agency, a CEO of a successful sp...
03/01/2018
After many tours and many camps, each event helping downsizing the aspirants, the last word has come. One Thousand Hockey Legs boys team for the 8th Hockey India Sub-Junior Nationals has been arrived at. The team has left Delhi in the eary hours of Tuesday the 2 January, 2018. 18 of our boys will reach a place called Hojai in Assam, a new emerging semi-urban hockey centre in north eastern part of India. If the train would run in scheduled time it will take 42 hours for them to reach. However,...
23/11/2017
One Thousand Hockey Legs has been privileged to get direct entry in the Hockey India Sub-Junior National Championship. We have been participating in the Sub-Junior Nationals from 2014. Our teams performed well in Baroda, Jammu, Imphal and Bangalore. The next edition comes in the first week of January 2018.
The preparations to select representative OTHL team has started two months ago. Despite not having full grounds, turf or grass, all efforts have been taken to collect talented boys bo...
11/10/2017
With two consecutive victories in as many as days, the Delhi based NGO team One Thousand Hockey Legs XI has entered the Super League of 35th Sub-Jr Nehru Cup being underway in Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi.
OTHL XI yesterday defeated Government Boys Senior Secondary Schools Manda, Madhya Pradesh, 6-1 with three goals coming from ultimate Man of the Match, the diminutive forward Sachin.
Sachin was declared Man of the Match at Pune in the 2nd SGNB All India Inter-Sch...
13/09/2017
Sunil Vohra Memorcial Cup is an important hockey calendar activity in the Union Territory of Chandigarh, which is capital for prosperous Punjab and Haryana. The event is for school team and for Under-14 boys. Like last year, OTHL entered its Delhi team. In addition, OTHL's Kolkata also made their maiden entry. Its nice of the organizers that they accepted two teams from our increasingly acceptable NGO.
Its for the first time in almost 9 years of the OTHL that it could field tw...
10/08/2017
OTHL Delhi conducted summer camps in many centres across the city: Anglo-Arabic Sr Sec School Grounds, Yamuna Sports Complex and Union Academy Sr Sec Schools to quote a few. These camps ran for three to 10 weeks starting from the last week of April. With the onset of monsoon, the month of July and mid-August wtinessed opening of schools. Since our grounds have become wet, these 45 - 50 days were used for focussing OTHL wards on academics.
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06/07/2017
Globally popular sports monthly magazine, Sports Illustrated, staged its sixth Annual Sports Person of the Year (SOTY) Awards night recently. While Olympic Gold medallist PV Sindhu was declared Sports Person of the Year and her coach Khel Ratna Gopi Chand as Coach of the Year, our NGO got a big boost when its founder K. Arumugam was chosen for one of the awards under the 'Contribution to Sports' category. The award was handed over to him personally on the stage by living legend ...
