Who A Wise Athlete Is For
Every Indian family with a child who plays a sport and also has to study, wherever they live and whatever they can spend. Here is what each reader will find.
If you are a parent
Your worry about your child's future makes sense, and this article explains why. The site gives you current information to weigh it against: what sports quota actually offers, which schemes pay for what and how a life with sport in it can lead to more than one good outcome, not just the top one. When you are ready to talk it through at home, the family conversation guide gives you a way to decide together.
If your child is in Classes 6 to 9
These are the years that make everything later easier. The big decision is often the school: dedicated sports schools, schools with real facilities, or NIOS when a school cannot fit the training. Start early, stay relaxed explains why study habits built now pay off at the boards.
If you are in Classes 10 to 12
Training and board exams pull hardest in these years. The weekly template and the daily schedule show how to fit both. This is also when college choices are made: sports quota at Delhi University and central universities, and the foreign university pathway if you want to study and play abroad. If your parents are not convinced yet, this is how to talk to them.
If you are in college or about to start
Life after a sports quota admission, university competitions and the jobs that hire athletes, in the Railways, the armed forces and PSUs and banks.
If you are past 25 and still playing
Career after 25 covers coaching, sports administration, which sports still have a competitive future at your age and fitting sport around a job and a family.
If you are a sportswoman
Sportswomen covers what women in Indian sport deal with that men mostly do not, from facilities to family pressure, with the facts to plan around it.
If you are a para athlete or the parent of one
The para sports roadmap sets out India's Paralympic pathway in one place, with a roadmap for each of the main para sports.
If you are a coach or a teacher
Families ask you questions you may not have time to research. Every article here links to the official source and can be shared as it is. Explore lists them all by topic.
If your child has not started a sport yet
Learn a sport at home has practice cards for 60 sports. Each one tells a grown-up who has never played what to set up, what to say and what to look for.
What this site is not
It is not a coaching academy and it does not rank academies or coaches. Nor is it the official source for any scheme. It is the guide to that source: amounts, dates and rules change, so every figure links to where you can check it.
Not sure where to begin? The Guide asks four questions and points you to what matters now. Why this site exists is in Why we built A Wise Athlete.