Rotary Midtown Soukya Sports Award-2015 will be conferred on O. Sushmitha Pawar at a function to be held on Feb.18 at the Rotary Centre on JLB Road, Mysuru, at 6.30 pm.

Chief guest Dr. C. Krishna, Director, Department of Physical Education, University of Mysore, will present the award to Sushmitha, who had won gold medal in kabaddi at the 17th Asian Games held at South Korea during Sept.-Oct. 2014.

The award is sponsored by Soukya Travel & Tours, Saraswathipuram, Mysuru, in association with Rotary Mysore Midtown.

Profile: Sushmitha was appointed to Karnataka State Police through sports quota and posted in Bettadapura Police Station, Periyapattana Taluk.

Now, she regularly represents Police Women’s Kabaddi Team, State Women’s Kabaddi team and National Women’s Kabaddi Team.

She was the captain of Karnataka Junior Kabaddi Team and was a member of South Zone and Karnataka State Team too.

A recipient of Kempegowda Award-2014 and Karnataka Olympics Association Award-2014, she has participated in many National level tournaments, Federation Cup, National Games, Women games and festival games and won numerous gold and silver medals.

Sushmitha is the daughter of Omprkash Pawar, a flour mill owner and Manjula Bai, a homemaker, residents of N.R. Mohalla in city.

Sushmitha is married to Venkatesh Yadav, Proprietor of a photo studio in Bengaluru.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> General News / Monday – February 16th, 2015