Qamar Ibrahim

I joined Habib Public School in 1975 in the 2nd grade and had a passion for hockey right from then. I would try to bring my own hockey stick but since that wasn’t allowed, our principal ended up confiscating it the first two times. Even then, I persisted and tried a third time, and finally she realised my love for the game and I became the only student permitted to bring his own hockey stick to the school.

In 10th grade I achieved my goal of being the school’s hockey team captain and a house captain. My time as house captain helped me realise my strengths as a leader, and was of great help to me in my time as a player in the Pakistan hockey team and then again as a coach. After graduating from HPS I joined PIA’s sports department. There I met and trained under Olympian coaches Saeed Anwar and Asad Malik. I seized this opportunity and trained immensely hard, and worked my way up to first the junior and then men’s national hockey team. Being in Habib Public School helped shape me into the player who achieved all his dreams in life.