Precisely a month after saying Craig Fulton as the brand new chief coach of the Indian males’s workforce, Hockey India (HI) on Friday introduced that Rhett Halkett and Alan Tan will take part because the South African’s assist employees. Whereas Halkett would be the analytical coach, Tan has been named because the scientific advisor.
The choice follows the resignation of chief coach Graham Reid, analytical coach Gregg Clark and scientific advisor Mitchell Pemberton within the wake of India’s dismal present on the World Cup in January the place they completed joint ninth in Odisha – the worst present by a number nation on the quadrennial occasion.
Like Fulton, Halkett can also be a former South Africa worldwide who performed 155 internationals between 2010 and 2018. In 2020, he joined the Netherlands girls’s workforce as an assistant coach the place he guided the workforce throughout the Professional League, European Championships and Tokyo Olympics throughout his one-year tenure. Final 12 months, Halkett took over as assistant coach for the Scotland males’s workforce and likewise led Scotland U-21 as the top coach.
Tan, then again, comes with over 10 years of expertise working as power and conditioning coach on the NSW Institute of Sport from January 2011 to September 2021. He additionally went on to take over the position of nationwide growth squad programme supervisor at Wheelchair Rugby Australia from August 2021 to March 2023.
He additionally labored as a laboratory tutor and unit assessor marker for Bachelor Train and Sport Science on the College of Know-how Sydney from September 2021 to March 2023 earlier than taking on as senior power and conditioning coach for Tennis Australia on the Sydney Coaching Centre from November 2022 to March 2023.
Girls’s workforce assist employees
In the meantime, HI has additionally introduced that former Japan girls’s workforce head coach Anthony Farry will fill within the place of analytical coach of the Indian girls’s workforce. Farry had a three-year stint as assistant coach for Hockey ACT and Hockey Australia between December 2008 and 2011. He got here into the limelight throughout his tenure as Canada males’s head coach and high-performance director between August 2011 and February 2017 when Canada certified for the 2016 Rio Olympics for the primary time.
Farry additionally helped Canada U-21 males qualify for 2 consecutive editions of the Junior World Cup after which went on to guide Japan girls as head coach and high-performance director between February 2017 and August 2020. Beneath his steering, Japan gained their first Asian Video games gold in 2018. He took over as USA girls’s workforce head coach and high-performance director from August 2020 to April 2022.
“We welcome the brand new teaching employees for the Indian males’s and girls’s groups. On behalf of HI, I thank the Sports activities Authority of India for processing their appointments on a right away foundation and respect their continued assist in getting ready the Indian groups for the upcoming Asian Video games in China in 2023. I want Rhett Halkett, Alan Tan and Anthony Farry the perfect of their new roles,” HI president Dilip Tirkey mentioned.