New Delhi: Hockey India today announced its Senior Women Hockey Team for the 3rd Asian Champions Trophy 2013 to be played at Kakamigahara, Japan from 2-9 November 2013.<\/p>\n
Hockey India Selectors Mr. B P Govinda, Ms. Savitry Purty and Ms. Surinder Kaur, Mr. Roelant Oltmans, Director High Performance, Mr. Neil Hawgood, Chief Coach of the Senior Women Team & Scientific Advisor Mr. Matthew Tredrea alongwith Government Observer Harbinder Singh selected the list of 18 players and 6 standbys during the selection trials conducted at NSNIS Patiala on 11 October 2013.
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The other participating teams in the 2013 tournament are China, Japan and Malaysia. India will open its campaign against China on 2 November followed by matches against Malaysia on 4 November and Japan on 7 November 2013.<\/p>\n
The 18 member squad will be captained by midfielder Ritu Rani while midfielder Chanchan Devi will be the Vice-Captain.\n<\/p>\n
The Senior Women Team camp is currently underway and commenced at NSNIS, Patiala from 11 October 2013 as preparations for this tournament. The team will depart for Japan on 29 October 2013.<\/p>\n
The Senior Women Team won the silver medal at the 8th Women\u2019s Asia Cup held in Malaysia last month.<\/p>\n
Schedule is also attached herewith.<\/p>\n
List of players is as under-<\/strong><\/p>\n Goalkeepers 1. Rajni Etimarpu<\/p>\n 2. Savita<\/p>\n Defenders 3. Deep Grace Ekka<\/p>\n 4. Deepika<\/p>\n 5. Kirandeep Kaur<\/p>\n 6. Sunita Lakra<\/p>\n 7. Sushila Chanu<\/p>\n 8. Monika<\/p>\n 9. Manjeet Kaur<\/p>\n 10. Amandeep<\/p>\n Midfielders 11. Ritu Rani (Captain)<\/p>\n 12. Namita Toppo<\/p>\n 13. Chanchan Devi (Vice-Captain)<\/p>\n 14. Soundarya Yendala<\/p>\n Forwards 15. Vandana Katariya<\/p>\n 16. Rani<\/p>\n 17. Poonam Rani<\/p>\n 18. Ritusha Arya<\/p>\n Standbys 1. Sanarik Chanu- Goalkeeper<\/p>\n 2. Sandeep Kaur- Defender<\/p>\n 3. Lily Minz- Midfielder<\/p>\n 4. Lily Chanu- Midfielder<\/p>\n 5. Anuradha Devi- Forward<\/p>\n 6. Anupa Barla- Forward<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Delhi: Hockey India today announced its Senior Women Hockey Team for the 3rd Asian Champions Trophy 2013 to be played at Kakamigahara, Japan from 2-9 November 2013.<\/p>\n Hockey India Selectors Mr. B P Govinda, Ms. Savitry Purty and Ms. Surinder Kaur, Mr. Roelant Oltmans, Director High Performance, Mr. Neil Hawgood, Chief Coach of the Senior Women Team & Scientific Advisor Mr. Matthew Tredrea alongwith Government Observer Harbinder Singh selected the list of 18 players and 6 standbys during the selection trials conducted at NSNIS Patiala on 11 October 2013. The other participating teams in the 2013 tournament are China, Japan and Malaysia. India will open its campaign against China on 2 November followed by matches against Malaysia on 4 November and Japan on 7 November 2013.<\/p>\n The 18 member squad will be captained by midfielder Ritu Rani while midfielder Chanchan Devi will be the Vice-Captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n
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