Hockey India names 40-member core group for senior girls’s nationwide camp
Hockey India on Saturday (July 19, 2025) introduced a 40-member core possible group for the upcoming senior girls’s nationwide teaching camp, which can be held on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) Centre in Bengaluru from July 21 to August 29.
The camp holds significance because the Indian girls’s hockey crew gears up for the ladies’s Asia Cup, set to start on September 5 in Hangzhou, China.
The match will function a direct qualification pathway for the 2026 FIH Ladies’s World Cup, with solely the champion incomes a assured spot.
All gamers from the earlier camp have been retained, reflecting a continued emphasis on stability and long-term growth beneath the present teaching setup.
“This camp comes at a really important juncture for us. The Asia Cup isn’t just a prestigious continental match, but in addition a direct path to the 2026 World Cup. We’re treating this camp with utmost depth and focus to make sure we arrive in Hangzhou as a mentally and bodily ready unit,” Indian girls’s hockey crew chief coach Harendra Singh mentioned in a launch.
“We now have retained the core from the final camp to take care of consistency in our strategy, whereas additionally permitting the youthful gamers extra time to combine into the senior construction. After a tricky Professional League marketing campaign in Europe, the place we could not produce the outcomes we needed, this camp additionally offers us an opportunity to reset, refocus, and bounce again stronger. Furthermore, now we have recognized important angles in penalty nook defence, which was a key space of concern in the course of the Professional League.”
The goalkeeping unit options skilled stalwarts Savita, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Bansari Solanki, and Madhuri Kindo, together with rising expertise Samiksha Saxena from Assam Hockey, who impressed selectors along with her performances on the Nationwide Championships earlier this yr.
The defence line-up contains seasoned names corresponding to Nikki Pradhan, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Udita, and Mahima Chaudhary, bolstered by rising gamers like Ishika Chaudhary, Jyoti Chhatri, Anjna Dungdung, Akshata Abaso Dhekale, and Suman Devi Thoudam.
In midfield, the group continues to depend on the expertise of Neha, Salima Tete, Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke, Manisha Chauhan, and Sharmila Devi, whereas additionally nurturing younger abilities like Sujata Kujur, Mahima Tete, Albela Rani Toppo, and Pooja Yadav.
The ahead line incorporates a sturdy mixture of agility and ending potential, with gamers like Navneet Kaur, Deepika Soreng, Sangita Kumari, Rutuja Dadaso Pisal, Mumtaz Khan, Magnificence Dungdung, Annu, Hritika Singh, Dipimonika Toppo, Chandana Jagadish, and Kajal Sadashiv Atpadkar all named within the squad.
Notably, the Indian crew will look to construct on previous successes in Asia and redeem themselves after a difficult outing within the just lately concluded FIH Professional League, the place they struggled to seek out type in the course of the European leg.
Indian girls’s hockey crew new 40-member senior core group:
Goalkeepers: Savita, Bichu Devi Kharibam, Bansari Solanki, Madhuri Kindo, Samiksha Saxena.
Defenders: Mahima Chaudhary, Nikki Pradhan, Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam, Udita, Ishika Chaudhary, Jyoti Chhatri, Jyoti, Akshata Abaso Dhekale, Anjna Dungdung, Suman Devi Thoudam.
Midfielders: Sujata Kujur, Vaishnavi Vitthal Phalke, Neha, Salima Tete, Manisha Chauhan, Ajmina Kujur, Sunelita Toppo, Lalremsiami, Sharmila Devi, Baljeet Kaur, Mahima Tete, Albela Rani Toppo, Pooja Yadav.
Forwards: Dipimonika Toppo, Hritika Singh, Deepika Soreng, Navneet Kaur, Sangita Kumari, Deepika, Rutaja Dadaso Pisal, Magnificence Dungdung, Mumtaz Khan, Annu, Chandana Jagadish, Kajal Sadashiv Atpadkar.
Printed – July 19, 2025 02:18 pm IST
