~Preeti made her final look for the workforce within the Hockey World League Semi-Remaining in 2017~
New Delhi, twentieth April, 2024: Preeti Dubey, the dynamic ahead, was named within the 33-member Indian Ladies’s Hockey Workforce that’s at present coaching at SAI Bangalore. The 60-member evaluation squad that reported to camp on 1st April was spruced up after choice trials that have been held on the sixth and seventh of April 2024.
Out of 33, one title that stood out was – Preeti Dubey. The 25-year-old, who hails from Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh and made her final look for the Indian Ladies’s Hockey Workforce within the Hockey World League Semi-Remaining in 2017, clawed her method again into the Nationwide setup after impressing the selectors and coaches within the evaluation camp. Her choice comes after she put up a powerful efficiency within the 14th Hockey India Senior Ladies Nationwide Championship 2024, held in Pune.
Talking about her inclusion, Preeti stated, “It feels wonderful to return again within the nationwide setup. However that is simply step one. All my efforts and laborious work have paid off. I want to thank my relations, and all my coaches who supported me, motivated me and stood by me in troublesome occasions. I at all times believed in myself that the precise time would come and I by no means doubted my talents and potential to return again into the nationwide setup.”
Recalling the struggles that she overcame, she stated, “I’ve seen plenty of ups and downs previously few years however I imagine that due to what occurred, it has made me mentally robust. When the lockdown occurred in 2020, I confronted plenty of issues as a result of we couldn’t play Nationals and as a result of that I couldn’t get my allotted go away from my job at Centre Railway. That one yr was the hardest for me. I used to work for eight hours after which come again to my room, and put together my very own meals as I used to be dwelling in Mumbai with out my household. However each day, I used to find time for my health and coaching from 8-9 pm. I made certain that my health stage by no means went down.”
“My subsequent purpose is to make the minimize for the 18-member squad, achieve my confidence and assist my workforce win medals and accolades on a world circuit. My major focus is now on the 2028 Summer season Olympics,” she added.
Preeti additionally shared how she stored herself motivated every day and the way she pushed herself to enhance her recreation and made a comeback to the Indian Ladies’s Hockey Workforce. She shared, “My father calls me each day and he says that I’ve what it takes to make a comeback. All of my coaches have at all times informed me that I’ve the potential and when so many individuals put their belief in me, it offers me that additional motivation to do higher and it retains me going even underneath antagonistic circumstances.”
“I’ve a diary the place I hold writing my desires within the type of drawings, how can I fulfil them and every day earlier than I hit the sphere for my coaching, I take a look at the diary and it simply jogs my memory of the struggles that I’ve overcome previously few years,” the 25-year-old added.
Recognized for her agility, strategic prowess, and dedication to the sphere, she brings a wealth of expertise and management to the workforce. Having beforehand represented the nation in a number of nationwide and worldwide tournaments, together with the Olympics and World Cup, her presence is about to encourage the efficiency of her teammates.
In 2016, Preeti was one of many youngest members of the Indian Ladies’s Hockey Workforce that certified for his or her maiden Olympic Video games in Rio. She additionally led the 18-member Indian Junior Ladies’s Hockey Workforce within the U-23 Six Nation Match, held in Belgium in 2018.