Hyderabad|India|January'2010: With a vision for sports and nurturing young talent the Jain Heritage a Cambridge School is setting up a professionally managed Academy for Sporting Excellence on International lines. to be inaugurated by Dronacharya Awardee Pullela Gopichand and International Badminton Sensation Saina Nehwal on 28 January 2010 at Kondapur the academy promises to churn out champion sportsperson of its own for the twin cities.

On the occasion Mr. R. Chenraj Jain, Chairman, Jain Group of Institutions said “Personally I wouldn't like to take much credit for the success of the meet, but what gave me immense satisfaction was the fact that the facilities we had were put to optimum use by the youngsters."

In campus we have created basketball, volleyball, Cricket practice pitches, besides tennis courts and a football ground. To add to these are a host of indoor facilities for Table tennis, Aerobics, Taekwando, Yoga, Carrom and Chess.

JASE is envisioned to be run by professionals who know their job and who were champions in their own right such as Archana Vishwanath, Director, who was a former international table tennis player. It has a set of top coaches including visiting pros like Enrico Piperno (tennis) and S. Pradeep Kumar (swimming). Jain also aims to give an international flavour by tying up with sports academies in Singapore and Australia.

If an Olympic gold in 2012 is a long-term goal, the short-term target for JASE is to produce 50 players of national caliber in individual sports.

Some of them are as under:

1. Pankaj Advani – Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee
2. Robin Uthappa – International Cricketer
3. Anup Sridhar – Badminton
4. Rehan Poncha – Swimming
5. Shikha Tandon – Swimming
6. Rohan Bopanna – Tennis
7. Hari Prasad – Hockey
8. Ajay R M – Volleyball
9. Sonam Deep Kaur – Basketball
10. Gauram Dhiman – India U19 cricketer
11. Manish Pandey - India U19 cricketer

Reachout's News Bureau
January' 2010