New Delhi [India], January 11 (ANI): Former India girls’s hockey crew captain Rani Rampal is hopeful the Women’s Hockey India League (HIL) will set the platform for younger ladies to win nationwide crew berths for the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane and past.
Talking to SAI Media in Rohtak lately, Rani feels the primary version of ladies’s HIL will “deliver big time going forward”, the identical manner the ladies’s model of the Indian Premier League did for cricket.
The first-ever Women’s Hockey India League 2024-25, scheduled between January 12 and 26 in Ranchi, options 4 groups – Delhi SG Pipers, Odisha Warriors, Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers and Soorma Hockey Club.
Rani Rampal will function a mentor and coach of the Soorma Hockey Club of Punjab. This will probably be her maiden stint as a help workers. The 30-year-old from Haryana, who has performed greater than 250 worldwide matches, feels HIL has come on the proper time when girls’s hockey is making an attempt to make a turnaround after not qualifying for the Paris Olympics 2024.
“There may be four teams only this time but starting the league has been a long time coming. Hockey India needs to be complimented for this,” Rani informed SAI Media, including that this will probably be her first main step in direction of teaching the nationwide crew in the future.
“The men’s hockey team won back-to-back bronze medals in the Olympics in Tokyo and Paris because the foundation was laid by the men’s Hockey India League years back. Now thanks to the introduction of the women’s HIL, we will get to see a lot of talented young women showcase their mettle in the 2032 and 2036 Olympics. This platform will turn out immensely fruitful,” she added.
HIL began in 2013 with six males’s groups. It was performed for 5 years earlier than shutting down largely for industrial causes. It was revived after seven years with an extra girls’s league.
Recalling the success of the ladies’s Indian Premier League (IPL) by way of girls’s cricket’s prominence, Rani continued, “Nobody knew much about women’s cricket, but now you see, how the sport has become so popular in the nation. Through the women’s IPL (WPL), people came to know about it and have started following the sport manifold.”With the 2 veterans of Indian hockey lately – PR Sreejesh and Rani Rampal – taking on teaching assignments, Rani additionally wished the ‘Wall’ Sreejesh all of the success he would deliver forth because the Indian junior hockey crew coach.
“Sreejesh has almost 20 years of international experience. The junior team will do very well because they will get to know how to perform in a high-level pressure situation,” mentioned Rani.
Talking of teaching mindsets, Rani mentioned she and Sreejesh had a couple of issues in frequent, “I also want to share the same knowledge and experience with the youngsters during the women’s HIL so that they can be helped emotionally and mentally. We have to bring the best out of them.” (ANI)