ABOUTUS
We at USM commonly believe that starting young, with the right training and discipline is essential to a sports career and a healthy lifestyle. Our collective goal is to bring forward the vast potential of Indian youth in the sporting arena and for this reason, Ullanaat Sports Management was formed.
Mission: To facilitate overall personality development of youth through sports, and to provide a high quality sporting experience by creating a
pathway for young athletes and fostering them into become professionals.
Vision: If we really want to be a good sporting nation, we need to work at grass roots level and need to open more academies with top facilities. Sport builds mentality, leadership skills, helps in setting goals, risk taking, communications skills, calculated decisions and builds confidence, just to name few skills. Sports helps an individual much more than its physical aspects alone and if you start with sports at a young age, these qualities remain with you forever.
It is with this motivation that Ullanaat Sports Management aspires to be a formidable athletic organisation with the aim of implementing these traits at the grass roots level of a child with the help of an integrated program to pave the way of developing a professional athlete.
OUR TEAM
Atul Panicker
FOUNDER & CEO
Atul Panicker is the CEO and Founder of Ullanaat Sports Management. He started out his sports management career with a placement at the Premier League Football Club Huddersfield Town as a Marketing assistant. Atul holds a diploma in Computer Engineering from Shri Bhagubhai Mafatlal Polytechnic and a double bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Sports Management from University of Gloucestershire, UK. When not working, Atul can be found researching about new technologies or playing football. He is a big Premier League buff and supports the likes of Huddersfield Town FC and Arsenal FC.He is passionate about Indian Sports and wants to bring in the much needed change in the current situation of Indian sports. He represented his school in cricket and played softball and baseball at state level. He also represented his diploma college Baghubhai in football. Due to lack of streamlined training in sports, he had an early setback in his sporting career due to injuries and as a result, Atul could not pursue his dream of actually becoming a professional sports player. To prevent this happening with anyone else, Atul wants to create a platform for kids who want to follow their dreams of becoming sportsmen. He wants to inculcate the right discipline and a training structure needed to excel at sports. He believes that starting young, at grass-root level is essential for nurturing children for sports in the right way.
Yash Pandey
DIRECTOR OF SPORTS SCIENCE
Yash Pandey growing up in Mumbai, was very definite about working in the field of Sports. Graduating in Physiotherapy, he went ahead and completed masters in Sports Injury Management from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Currently having almost 10 years of experience, he was very fortunate to have started his career with Sheffield United FC Academy. Deciding to come back to his roots, worked at the Sports Medicine Centre, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital. Tennis calling happened, where he got an opportunity to work with Tennis Aces like Mahesh Bhupathi, Rohan Bopanna, Daniel Nestor, Sania Mirza, Rajeev Ram and Vasek Pospisil. Though Tennis is his love, he enjoyed working with the All India Football Federation U-14 Team. He has traveled around the world for prestigious Sports events like Rio Olympics 2016, Indian Davis cup, US Open, Wimbledon, all the championships at the ATP World Tour and continues to do so. Yash believes that starting young is the key to everything. He is a huge tennis fan and is passionate about working in the youth sports industry. He is determined to show the world that a fundamental and grass-root start to sporting life is essential in a kid’s future in sports.
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