Shri. Pinarayi Vijayan
Chief Minister of Kerala
Shri. E.P. Jayarajan
Minister for Industries
Commerce, Sports, and Youth Affairs
Victory Is The Goal
About us
SPRINT is a grassroots level athletics program that is being introduced in Kerala in collaboration with the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs. As it is known that Kerala is a place of many ancient ritualistic arts like Kalaripayattu which can be roughly translated as battlefield exercise. The essence is that Kerala has a huge tradition of sports activities.
Athletics is one of the prioritized sports disciplines in Kerala with a rich history of producing world-class athletes, based on the performance at the National and International levels. Men and women athletes of Kerala have done the country proud multiple times. Kerala now has in place a state-of-the-art ASTRA facility in place at the Jimmy George Indoor Stadium at Thiruvananthapuram. For performance enhancement, training at grass root level across the state, with inter-school & inter-district tournaments has to be promoted; and we at KinderSports are trying to do that.
sprint program
Athletics is considered to be mother of all games. It not only builds one physically but it helps in body coordination and gives one mental firmness. Athletics also referred to as Track & Field sport consists a variety of events such as running, jumping, throwing and walking. The sport tests physical abilities of the participants such as endurance, speed, strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and much more. In India, the sport is governed by Athletics Federation of India and is very popular but India is yet to produce an Olympic medalist in Athletics.
Athletics has to be viewed as a top priority sports discipline to provide continuous training for school going children in the state, between the age group of 5-12 years which aims to bring up talented children from sub-urban, rural, tribal, and other less tapped areas. This program, which will be known as Sprint, would be implemented in 6 districts in Kerala at 6 schools which will involve the training of at least 180 students.
structure of sprint
Sprint would be a great step in moving towards India’s participation in IAAF at a bigger level. The program would be structured in a way that attains the overall growth of kids in all the aspects related to athletics which will enable them to participate in junior national level tournaments. In the first phase, SPRINT would start in FY 2021-22. It would be implemented in 6 major districts of Kerala, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Palakkad, Kannur, Kasaragod in a total of 6 schools. This will enable to train and develope more than 180 students. This program will continue to phase 2 by its implementation in FY 2021-22 and there is a high possibility of conducting summer coaching for the more talented selective batch in the months of April-May in all the financial years.
TRAINING DETAILS OF SPRINT
- Designated training centers would be opened with all the required infrastructure and equipment.
- All the training centers will be headed by professionally qualified athletics trainer.
- The total number of students across all the designated centers would be a minimum of 180.
- This trainee would be divided into batches of 10 students each for running jumping and throwing after two months of rigorous training.
- Each student will be trained for a total duration of 9 months.
- Regular tests would be conducted with the sole purpose of checking the progress and will be submitted to the concerned authorities.
- Registration of attendance of every participant will be kept up to date and it will be made available online for the verification process.
registration process
Sprint would be a great step in moving towards India’s participation in IAAF at a bigger level. The program would be structured in a way that attains the overall growth of kids in all the aspects related to athletics which will enable them to participate in junior national level tournaments. In the first phase, SPRINT would start in FY 2021-22. It would be implemented in 6 major districts of Kerala, Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Idukki, Palakkad, Kannur, Kasaragod in a total of 6 schools. This will enable to train and develope more than 180 students. This program will continue to phase 2 by its implementation in FY 2021-22 and there is a high possibility of conducting summer coaching for the more talented selective batch in the months of April-May in all the financial years.
Directorate of Sports & Youth affairs Government of Kerala
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
Evaluation
Periodic fitness tests would be conducted throughout the year for the participants of the Sprint program. Daily, weekly, and monthly activity reports will be kept for the purpose of evaluating the participant’s growth and progress. The duration of the training program will be for 9 months.