21/03/2017
Various teams for the 2017 season announced, based on the performance, commitment, competency of kids who participated in the 3-month long Delhi OTHL Sunday Hockey League 2016. These teams will play round the year in various age group competitions. Their performance will be evaluated based on fighting spirit, commitment, and not giving up educationals needs.
...21/02/2017
Some of the boys are happily doing flag bearer jobs in the Hockey India League in Delhi. Some others are touring Sports Training Centres being run by Sports Authority of India to attend annual selection trials across India. But at the same time, eight boys of One Thousand Hockey Legs break a new ground for themselves, getting a lifetime chance to indulge in an overseas mela.
An OTHL team of 8 boys (age ranging from 14 to 18) took part in the second annual Gulf Hockey Fiesta 2017 h...
15/01/2017
The experiment of involving hockey kids on Sundays for a tournament and thus create property for future came to a grand finale today with the Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Janakpuri, beating Government Boys Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Ashok Vihar 3-0 at the picturesque Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi, in the final of the Sunday Hockey League.
Delhi based NGO Hockey Citizen Group, which runs globally acclaimed One Thousand Hockey Legs Project, cocentualized and put...
12/01/2017
The experimental Delhi OTHL Schools Hockey League has reached its business end. The semifinals were held last Tuesday after three months of non-stop Sunday matches. In the first semifinal Ashok Vihar overcame stiff resistance of new powerhouse Ghittorni to enter the final.
In the second semifinal, Janakpuri set aside the challenge of Mahrauli school. Earlier, Maharauli school also overcame Saket in the Play Off.
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06/01/2017
International Hockey Federation (FIH) has listed One Thousand Hockey Legs as one of the three Global Projects of Asia for the year 2016.
FIH stated,
As part of our series looking at some of the standout Global hockey Projects from 2016, we look at some projects in Asia that have the potential to inspire others in 2017...
Project gathers pace in India
One Thousand Hockey Legs is a project based in India that introduces hockey to sch...
20/10/2016
Introduction of Sunday League by One Thousand Hockey Legs in Delhi has sent positive signals with respect to bring back drop outs back to hockey fields.
OTHL has found that about 25% of students whom it introduced hockey, give up for variety of reasons such as academic load, inability to take physical load the game demands, casualness, failure to make it to School or combined team with resultant frustration etc. This is a big number, and need to be tackled in order to get maximum...
17/10/2016
Our NGO Hockey Citizen Group that runs premier project, One Thousand Hockey Legs, decided to field two Club teams in the Delhi State Junior Championship held recently.
Delhi being the hub of One Thousand Hockey Legs' field activities and feat, it was in the fitness of things to field OTHL XI and Citizen XI teams with an eye on medal position.
Early this year, as a part of vertical growth of talent it identified, OTHL decided to groom around one hundred boys out of...
01/10/2016
Midfielder Kishore Arya, 16, makes history of sort by becoming India's first ever NGO hockey player to make it to any Indian team. The 16-year old from Delhi has been included in the India's Sub-Junior Asia Cup team, which starts this Sunday in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Kishore Arya is a product of Delhi based NGO One Thousand Hockey Legs which seeks to introduce the sport of hockey to at least 500 school kids each year.
Presently an incumbent of recently commenced Nationa...
30/09/2016
Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Honourable president of India, presented the Not-for-profit organization with Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar 2016 on National Sports Day
One Thousand Hockey Legs project, which has been in search of breaking new grounds after completing eight successful years of service to Indian hockey, got a shot in the arm recently when Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon'ble president of India, chose to present the Not-for-profit organization with Annual Sports Promotion Award...
01/09/2016
As a tribute to the rising status of the Delhi based Non Governmental Organization (NGO) One Thousand Hockey Legs, four of its young talents made it to the home State team for the forthcoming Junior National Championship.
Delhi Hockey, which governs the sport in Delhi region, announced the team the other day. Defender Pawan, midfielder Sushil Chauhan, left-half Kishore Arya and all rounder Kanaiya Kumar found their names in the State list.
The team has left for Raip...
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