KOOH Sports – India’s premiere Sports Education, Training & Technology Company has entered into a unique and exclusive three-year partnership with USA Global Cricket Academy (USAGCA), wherein KOOH Sports will train USAGCA’s existing coaches on their current curriculum and program run by KOOH’s technical staff.
KOOH Sports will host the team from USA Global Cricket Academy in India, at KOOH’s high performance centers in Bengaluru, Dehradun, Anand and Surat, India, along with their international partner centers in Dubai, Australia and England. As a part of the association, KOOH Sports will also be hosting the team from the USA Global Cricket Academy for a training session at their partner centers in Dubai, Australia and England. The Technical staff of KOOH will also visit the USA and conduct coaching sessions for USAGCA coaches as well.
During the three-year program, the company will ensure end-to-end management which entails taking care of the venue and logistics, coaching and marketing. In addition, the company will conduct individual coaching programs and identify specialized skills tours for the academy. This will entail significant exposure to USAGCA players, and will help them develop their talent. USAGCA will identify the relevant players and team members who eligible to participate in the KOOH Sports programs.
KOOH Sports CEO, Mr. Chirag Patel said, “KOOH Sports is a new age sports education, training and technology company set up with a passion to get kids to embrace sport and more importantly a healthier life style. We strongly believe that through this association, the coaches will get a wider exposure to international training standards. The training will be replicated when the coaches train our KOOH Sports kids.”
Ashok Patel (President), Rahul Sharma (CEO and Vice President Global Operation), D.V. Ravi (Director-Strategy and Global Operations), Jatin Patel (Development Manager North America Coaches, Schools, Colleges) of the USAGCA said, “USAGCA aims at providing world class cricket training and with such an association with KOOH Sports we aim to popularize the sport of cricket in America. The training will be world class and of a high standard, which will ensure skilled and efficient trainers and coaches.”
About KOOH SPORTS
KOOH Sports is India’s premiere Sports Education, Training & Technology Company set up with a passion to get kids of today to embrace sport and more importantly a healthier life style. KOOH Sports is driven by the age old philosophy “a fit body leads to an able mind”, a cliché forgotten by many in today’s fast paced technology world. KOOH Sports aims to be present throughout the journey of a kid from early stage movement to being active for life and for a persistent few even turning professional at a sport of their choice. “Early stage movement to active for life” or “early stage movement to podium” is the central theme to what KOOH Sports has to offer.
KOOH Sports delivers grass root programs at schools to:
A. Initiate interest in playing,
B. Nurture talent through its sports development centres and
C. Promote talent with best in class sports properties
KOOH Sports offers multiple sports solutions based on age appropriate curriculum, training and testing methodologies. KOOH Sports has built multi-sport curriculums covering 14 different sports (Cricket, Football, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton, Volleyball, Swimming, Hockey, Skating, Squash, Yoga, Archery, Table Tennis and Tae Kwon Do). All of this has been possible due to a rigorous focus on internal systems founded on three pillars of content – development, training coaches, and use of digital technologies. The company has launched a Health, Fitness & Activity testing platform called FOCUS Score. The company has also created and aims to conduct Self Defense community based camps especially designed for women across the country.
KOOH Sports is founded by seasoned professionals who have been in the servicing and outsourcing industry for over two decades. Believing in the business idea and also driven by the interest to make a difference to the way sports is adopted in the country, TCS and HDFC, two of the largest corporate houses in the country, have invested in KOOH Sports.
KOOH Sports has built a strong management team with a panel of technical experts and has also formed strategic partnerships with federations, teams, education institutes, vocational training experts and such like. Our panel of technical experts and partnerships include Apurva Desaii, Dinesh Jaimon, Lalchand Rajput, Raghuram Bhatt, John Gloster, Andrea Thumshrin, Elizabeth Sato, Spencer Johnson, Balpreet Singh, Athletics Federation of India, Griffith University Special Olympics Bharat, FDC (Enerzal). The blend of seasoned corporate professionals, sports technicians and use of digital technology lends itself well to delivering a sustained long term business model.
The KITES Vocational Training program me has won accreditation from the National Skill Development Corporation. KOOH Sports is a member of CII Sports Committee and FICCI Education Committee.
Having steadily grown since its inception in June 2010, KOOH Sports, through a multitude of programs has reached out to over 200,000 kids across the country and plans to reach over 500,000 children over the next three years.
Visit www.koohsports.com or like them at https://www.facebook.com/KOOHSports,
ABOUT USA Global Cricket Academy (USAGCA)
USA Global Cricket Academy was successfully established in 1999 under the leadership of Ashok Patel, President of the academy. Cricket in America is an extremely expensive sport and hence can only be promoted if you have the passion and the financial resources to support it. But with the advent of such strong and committed people like Rahul Sharma, D.V. Ravi USA Cricket Academy has reached the Global level and is also doing business as USA Global Cricket Academy USAGCA.
USAGCA is an Associate Member of the USA Cricket Association. Over the years USA Global Cricket Academy with the vision “BUILDING GREAT CRICKET PROFESSIONALS” has a long and distinguished association with USA Junior Cricket teams – U13 team to Barbados in 2003, Under 18 teams to Trinidad, U15 and U19 teams to Wales, U19 teams to the Sir Garfield Sobers Tournament in Barbados and U18 team tour to India and Sri Lanka during 2006. USAGCA resumed their youth cricket International tours with the 2014-15 Grand tour of India for U17 and U19 teams, U-13 U-15 U-19 tours of Guyana, and the U -17 and U-19 tour of Sri Lanka.
The USAGCA Key initiative expansion plans will focus on the following:
1. High Performance Camps
2. Events – Regional National and International
3. Schools and colleges affiliation for the game
4. International Development tours
5. Youth League
You could locate USAGCA at www.usacricketacademy.org/index.php, or like them at https://www.facebook.com/usacricketacademy