Mysore :

Volleyball is a popular sport and is played both indoors and outdoors. The game has advanced and gained more popularity in the National, Asian and International level. Sports Hostel, Mysore and the University of Mysore have been promoting this sport in Mysore and have been regularly seeing talented players coming up from their support.

One amongst these talented sports persons is Mallika Vikas Shetty, a Mysore Sports Hostel’s product, who has been the most talented and upcoming volleyball players in the women’s section in the State. She was adjudged as the Best Player in the South Zone Women’s Volleyball Championships recently representing Karnataka as the skipper. She is our ‘Star This Week.’

Mallika Shetty is a State volleyball player from the Mysore Sports Hostel, who has been in the National camp for three years now but is yet to get a look-in into the Indian squad. The South Western Railway and Central Railway were interested in recruiting this talented lass.

Mallika Shetty, 21, led Mysore Sports Hostel team to another State ‘A’ division league title recently. Being a left-hander and very athletic has its advantages but it also comes with lots of responsibilities. She is the pillar of her team and shoulders the burden of smashing her way past the rival defense with impunity. Mallika has a wiry frame and has capitalised on her athleticism to good effect right from her school days.

“I did my schooling in a small hamlet in rural Karnataka, I excelled in athletics (shot put and discus throw). In 2007, I came to Bangalore and joined the Sports School Vidyanagar, and began my tryst with volleyball,” admits Mallika. She has been encouraged a lot by her parents to puruse sports as a career.

She is currently pursuing her second year B. Com at Teresian College in Mysore and honing her skills at the Mysore Sports Hostel under coach Ashok, whom she has been with for over three years now.

She is being encouraged by the DYES, Government of Karnataka and her college (Teresian College) provides her with all the needed help in attending various tournaments.

She has been a real inspiration and live wire for her team in the court and inspires the other players too.

source: http://www.starofmysore.com / Star of Mysore / Home> Sports / March 02nd, 2014