Avtar Singh Sohal

Avtar Singh Sohal, known to all as Tari, played hockey for Kenya at four Olympic Games, from 1960-72. He captained the team in 1964, 1968, and 1972, and was also the Kenyan captain at the 1st World Cup of hockey in Barcelona in 1971. Singh Sohal represented Kenya from 1957-72 and was capped 167 times. He learned his hockey when he played for City Primary School and the Duke of Gloucester School in Nairobi. After he retired from playing he began a coaching career and was Kenyan National Coach from 1978-88, coaching them at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Singh Sohal also took up umpiring and was awarded an FIH International Umpires badge in 1980. He was a judge at the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was appointed to the FIH Development and Coaching Committee in 1988. In 2000 Tari was given the Diploma of Merit by the FIH for his services to hockey.