Indian Women’s Hockey Team, winners of the FIH Nations Cup 2025-26, credited Taeke Taekema’s specialised drag-flick camp for improved penalty-corner efficiency. Backed by Anandana – Coca-Cola India Foundation and coach Sjoerd Marijne, the programme focused on technique and analysis. India scored 13 PC goals; Deepika was joint top scorer with six.

New Delhi: After lifting the FIH Hockey Women's Nations Cup New Zealand 2025-26, members of the Indian Women's Hockey Team's drag-flicking unit have credited the specialised training camp conducted by Dutch legend Taeke Taekema, whose expertise proved to be a key factor behind their improved penalty-corner execution through the tournament.

Taekema, one of the finest drag-flickers in world hockey history, joined the Indian team during their preparatory tour of Australia in May and continued working with the squad's drag-flickers through their time in New Zealand ahead of the Nations Cup, under its Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne.

The camp, supported by Anandana - The Coca-Cola India Foundation, focused on penalty-corner execution, technique refinement and game awareness, with drag-flickers Deepika, Lalthantluangi and Annu undergoing dedicated sessions under his guidance.

As a result of their hard work in the camps, India scored 13 goals from penalty corners through the FIH Hockey Women's Nations Cup New Zealand 2025-26. Deepika finished as the tournament's joint-top scorer with six goals, all of them converted from penalty corners.