348 take part in trials for PU college sports wings

Sports Correspondent

Ludhiana, September 24

As many as 348 aspirants (boys and girls) attended the U-25 trials conducted by the Punjab Sports Department to select and enrol players for sports wings at various colleges, affiliated to Panjab University, Chandigarh, for the 2021-22 session.

Ravinder Singh, district sports officer, Ludhiana, said the trials were held in as many as 18 sports disciplines — athletics, basketball, boxing, badminton, cycling, football, gymnastics (artistic and rhythmic), hockey, handball, judo, kabaddi, kho-kho, lawn tennis, swimming, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting and wrestling at Guru Nanak Stadium here during which players would be selected for the residential and day-scholar sports wings run at colleges across the state.

The selected players would be provided sports kits, free training and Rs 100 (per person per day as refreshment money), besides other facilities as per the state Sports Department rules.

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