Hockey India yesterday announced that they will conduct the Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway Level ‘Basic’ Coaching Course (online) through the virtual medium and interested applicants can enrol via the open forum [Link: https://forms.gle/PsnoHa9HYDKtYvhL8].

Only 60 slots will be available for the online course. Candidates will be chosen through a first-cum-first-serve basis and minimum criteria to apply requires an interested applicant to have Coached either a district, school or university hockey team for at least 3 years or he or she should have played National level / All India University level for at least 3 years.

The Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway which was launched in March last year is a simplified education structure that consists of a combination of web-based modules and face-to-face interactive courses, underpinned by a competency-based assessment process, which helps the Coaches in progressing to higher levels.

Candidates who successfully pass the Hockey India Level ‘Basic’ Coaching Course would become eligible to attend the Hockey India Level ‘1’ Coaching Course in the future. There is no participation fee to attend Hockey India Level ‘Basic’ Coaching Course (Online). Only those candidates who successfully complete the Hockey India Level ‘1’ Coaching Course will be provided the necessary certification.

A simplified education structure, the Hockey India Coaching Education Pathway, The Pathway is divided into 7 levels: Hockey India Level ‘Basic’, Hockey India Level ‘1’, Hockey India Level ‘2’, FIH Level 1, FIH Level 2, FIH Level 3 and FIH High Performance. The course aims to help in developing coaches from the grassroots level into world-class coaches of the high performance/international level. Once a candidate progresses from the Hockey India Levels, they are then eligible to enrol for the FIH Academy Level 1 Course, and so on.