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In the areas where the Bovelander Foundation works, they make use of the three-layer pyramids model, which aims to have every child and every coach to be challenged at their own development level. The grassroots program is the bottom layer and is the basis of our program where hockey is used as an instrument for … Continue reading Bovelander Foundation Hockey Program: From grassroots to the top

Meet Govind Navak. He is one of our hockey coaches at the RDC (Regional Development Centre). He is coaching children who come from the tribal and rural areas. The RDC is a level above the grassroots and a level below the Academy in the pyramid-model that the Bovelander Foundation uses in their projects. In the … Continue reading RDC level of the Hockey Pyramid

Meet Sunita Kumari. She is a player at the top level of the pyramid-model: The Centre of Excellence at the Odisha Naval Tata Hockey Academy in Bhubaneswar, Odisha. At the Academy the players practice daily and they go to school. Playing at the Academy creates more opportunities for a better future, either in sports or … Continue reading Academy level of the Hockey pyramid

At the start of October, it was finally time to play a tournament again. The past two years many players of our academy were only able to practice. And even then, they were very lucky to even be able to train. Players from outside the academy didn’t had this opportunity. Because of COVID-19 there wasn’t … Continue reading Wouter in India #2 – Structure

Good day Sir, Good day Madam. Welcome to my first blog. My name is Wouter Willems. I’m already for two months in India for the Bovelander Foundation. From now on I’ll write a blog every month about what I’m doing here, what I experience – at this moment because of COVID-19 nothing more than the … Continue reading Wouter in India#1 – Heroes

These past Olympics were for the Indian women and men hockey team a great success. The men came home with a bronze medal, but with a gold lining. And the women made it to an astonishing fourth place. In a way, timing could not be better. For a long period, India is building on their … Continue reading Historic Olympics

Thursday the 30th of June, the first edition of the Hockey for India – Bovelander Hockey Series took place. Together with the Rotary Club IJmond and hockey club Strawberries we organized an amazing school hockey tournament for elementary schools in Velsen. The goal of this day was of course to play hockey, but also to … Continue reading First edition Hockey for India – Bovelander Hockey Series

It has, and will always set women apart from men—dealing with the menstrual cycle in sports. The Bovelander Foundation and Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Center is partnering with Meri Body, to educate the academy’s female athletes. This program includes bi-weekly one hour online interactive sessions that will be conducted by the founder of … Continue reading ”HOCKEY IS MORE THAN JUST A GAME”

Last March it was finally possible our Dutch coach Sjoerd to return to India, since the start of the pandemic. Sjoerd Woelders traveled with a big stack of documents and negative COVID-19 tests to the Naval Tata Hockey Academy (NTHA) in Jamshedpur and Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Center (ONTHHPC). The focus of this … Continue reading Sjoerds visit in March

COVID-19 is hitting India hard. This also influences our projects. But luckily we’ve been able to work with our local coaches during the lockdown in small groups to keep the spirits up! Unfortunately, because of past and current travel restrictions we are not able to give face to face coaching courses, so we had to … Continue reading Online course for trainers

Last month the Jharkhand State team played the Sub Junior State Tournament, in Jind, Haryana. Eight of our NTHA Jamshedpur boys were part of this team and won the gold medal. The team manager of the winning team, Rohit Kumar, is one of our NTHA coaches, it was a great experience for him to fulfil … Continue reading Gold and silver at Sub Junior State Tournament