Mysuru :

Soukya Sports Award-2016 will be conferred on hockey player H.P. Sandhya at a programme organised by Rotary Mysore Midtown in association with Soukya Travel and Tours, at Rotary Centre on JLB Road in city on May 18 at 6.30 pm.

Mysore Travel Agents Association President C.A. Jayakumar will be the chief guest.

Profile: Sandhya, a 1st year M.Com student of Teresian College in city, is the daughter of Pushpa, warden of DYSS Hostel in Hassan and late Palaksha.

Determined to perform at top level, she trains under Vijaya Krishna, Hockey Coach, Sports Hostel, Mysuru.

She was a kho-kho player at the young age and was introduced to hockey by chance by her teachers.

She has taken part in 57th National School Games (2011-12) at Delhi, Sub-Junior Girls Hockey Championship (2011) at Chhattisgarh, 2nd Sub-Junior Girls National Hockey Championship (2012) at Haryana, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Junior National Hockey Championship (2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively) at Sonepat-Haryana, Jharkhand, Mysuru-Karnataka and Chhattisgarh respectively, National Games (2015) at Kerala, National Women Sports Competitions Group – 2 (2014) at Chitradurga – Karnataka, All India Inter-University Tournament in 2012-13 (University of Rajasthan-Jaipur), 2013-14 (University of Kurukshetra) and 2014-15 (South Zone at Anna University). She has also participated in Junior Women National Coaching camps and Indian camp.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports News / May 16th, 2016