Pune: City-based Firoz Hussain Shaikh was conferred with the District Sports Award as the ‘Best Sports Organiser’ for 2016-17 by the Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare, Maharashtra and the District Sports Office (DSO), Pune recently.
The ex-hockey player-cum-umpire turned educator is currently the Physical Education Director at the SNBP Group of Institutes, Morewadi Pimpri.
Firoz was chosen for his all-round work as an organiser, promoter and concerted effort to spread hockey across all age groups in the twin township of Pimpri-Chinchwad.