Boxing coaching camp ends
Our Correspondent

Khanna, December 18
Coaching Camp organised for Punjab state sub-junior team which is going to participate in the 19th Sub Junior National Boxing Championship being held at Haldwani in Utranchal form December 22 to 25 concluded here at Gurdwara Sant Baba Ishar Singh Jarg on Thursday.

The camp started on December 5 and 17 boxers took part in the camp. Twelve boxers Pankaj Saini, Deepak Bains, Jagdeep Kumar, Jatinderjit Singh, Puneet Kumar, gurcharn Singh, Gagan, Dalip Singh, Narinder Singh, Iqbir Singh and Parminder Singh will participate in the national championship.

On the concluding day secretary, Punjab Amateur Boxing Association, Mr G.S. Sara, president District Amateur Boxing Association Ludhiana, Iqbal Singh, and coach from sports authority of India, Mr J.S. Grewal, were present.

Mr Iqbal Singh, announced a award of Rs 20,000 if the team from Punjab won the national championship. He also announced and prizes of Rs 5000 and Rs 3000 for the best boxer and best loser, respectively.

Babaljit to head volleyball team
Our Correspondent

Mandi Ahmedgarh, December 18
Babaljit Kaur will head the Punjab sub-junior volleyball team at the National Volleyball Championship scheduled to be held in Kerala early next year. All six players are students of Government Senior Secondary School, Maherna Kalan, and belong to Johlan village, near Raekote in Ludhiana District.

The best smasher of the state (2001), Babaljit Kaur, along with other team members, had to shift to this school after the death of her coach Dilbara Singh Johlan. Though she started her sports career with athletics, she continued her pursuit in volleyball. She played in the state under-14 team three times and captained the Punjab team at Anandpur Sahib in 2000. The Volleyball Federation declared her the best smasher of the state in Jalandhar in 2001. She has played eight times in state team.

Commenting on the state of sports in schools, Babaljit said,” Little attention is paid to sports in schools. I remember, we were not even supplied kits at Rewa in 1997.”

The other members of the team are Sandeep Kaur Sandhu, Sandeep Kaur, Charanjit Kaur, Amandeep and Amrit Paul.