KCLAS in Coimbatore launches School of Sports Science to test ground
The Hindu
KCLAS launches School of Sports Science to boost research, education, and training for sports entrepreneurship in Coimbatore.
As a preparatory measure to start B.Sc. Sports Science programme, Kumaraguru College of Liberal Arts and Science (KCLAS) in Coimbatore on Friday launched its School of Sports Science on the sidelines of National Conclave on Sports Science, involving Sports Psychology Association of India.
The School of Sports Science envisages creating an ecosystem for research, education, training and sports entrepreneurship, as a pioneering initiative.
Giving due importance for sports in the formal education system will pave way for increasing India’s medal tally in Olympics Games, said Ranveet Gill, Founder, New Horizons Alliance Pvt Ltd., in his keynote address.
The frame of reference in India, which, despite being the youngest nation with its 1.4 billion population, has only six percent involved in sports, ought to be getting more to play. Only then will there be a bigger gene pool for emergence of medal winners, and for permeation of the success to transform the country well beyond the sports ecosystem. There will be cross-pollination; excellence in sports will get transfused in other walks of life, Mr. Gill said.
Sports Science re-engineers, re-defines and re-purposes the capabilities of the performers who require as much training as psychological support to handle peaks and troughs at a young age, he said.
David V. Rajan, Founder, Ortho-One Orthopaedic Speciality Centre, said in his address that sports science was now gaining prominence in consonance with the demand for non-surgical sports medicine interventions.
Presiding over, Shankar Vanavarayar, president, Kumaraguru Institutions said creation of a formal ecosystem to generate and nurture excellence in sports by the institution was a response to the phenomenal efforts taken by the Central and State governments for sports activities, thereby deriving the best out of India’s demographic dividend.
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