Guest Lecture : Role of Sports in Personality Development

Pratap Public School Jarnailly Colony organized an Online Guest Lecture on Thursday, May 6, 2021. The Session on Role of Sports in Personality Development, was conducted by Arnika Patil, a FIBA/WABC Certified Instructor & Coach.

The illustrious speaker, embellished with a cache of gold medals and appreciations at International & National levels as well as the Shiv Chatrapati award for 1997, interacted online with the students. She spoke at length about the importance of sports in personality development. 

She informed the students how sports hone even the lousiest of persons into sharp, perceptive personalities. Emphasizing that discipline, regimen & regulation are naturally imbued in a student when he / she takes up any sport. Answering the deluge of questions at the end of her interaction with the students she responded to a wide variety of queries ranging from being a role model to others to who her role models were growing up. Children quizzed her on maintain a balance between academics & sports, healthy diet, stress, focus and sports as a career. Ms. Arnika Patel handled the queries with elan and uncanny poise. It was as if a coach was talking to her team. 

The session was very successful and a unanimous call for such interactive guest lectures in the future was put forward by every member of the enthralled audience.