~ Deepika Soreng was honoured on the Hockey India sixth Annual Awards 2023 ~
New Delhi, sixteenth April 2024: Deepika Soreng, ahead for the India Ladies’s Hockey Group, prolonged her heartfelt gratitude to Hockey India for bestowing upon her the esteemed Hockey India Asunta Lakra Award for Upcoming Participant of the Yr throughout the Hockey India sixth Annual Awards 2023 final month.
Deepika, who has turn out to be a mainstay within the Indian set-up, had an amazing 12 months in 2023 as she made her debut for the facet within the Ladies’s Junior Asia Cup. She helped the group win the Gold medal, scoring 7 targets in 6 matches and emerged because the second-highest goal-scorer for the facet within the match.
Talking on her win, Deepika mentioned, “I supply my gratitude to Hockey India for giving me this honour. It was a memorable second for me and my household when my identify was introduced. Profitable the prize cash and the award is a matter of big motivation for me, and it provides me the braveness, and energy to proceed to carry out even higher and make the nation proud.”
Deepika additionally travelled with the Indian Junior Ladies’s Hockey Group to the 2023 4 Nations Junior Ladies’s Invitational Match (Düsseldorf) and performed all 4 video games. She travelled with the group to the 2023 FIH Junior Ladies’s World Cup previously 12 months and likewise was a key participant for the Indian group that gained the Silver medal within the inaugural FIH Ladies’s Hockey5s World Cup Oman 2024, scoring 9 targets within the match. She was additionally named the Younger Participant of the Match in Oman.
“I really feel like I’ve made nice progress over the previous 12 months and the credit score for a similar goes to the supporting workers, coaches and teammates who continually guided me. They supplied precious ideas every time I had doubts and likewise gave me house to specific myself. You will need to have belief inside your group and it’s equally essential to really feel house to specific your self, and being in such a unbelievable atmosphere has been a exceptional expertise for me,” Deepika mentioned.
Deepika was not too long ago named among the many 33-member Nationwide Ladies’s Group Core group that’s coaching on the SAI Centre in Bangalore until Could sixteenth. She was among the many gamers that have been chosen from the 60-member evaluation squad that reported to camp on April 1st, after the choice trials that have been held on April sixth – April seventh.
“I’m working arduous on daily basis and listening to the coaches. It has been an important expertise for me to coach with the Senior gamers as I’m studying loads of issues from them. I’m hopeful to have an opportunity to signify the Indian Senior Ladies’s Hockey Group as we’ve got loads of essential tournaments this 12 months. I can be able to seize the chance every time it comes my approach. Spending loads of time with the seniors and taking part in alongside them will additional assist my growth,” she signed off.
