Athletics – Girls

With BOSM ’09 just around the corner, we can see preparations on in full swing every evening in GymG. We caught up with the captain of the girl’s athletics team, Nikita Mokhariwale, to find out how geared up her team is for BOSM. Talking about her team’s preparation, Nikita told us that practices have been going quite well though the absence of an athletics coach is affecting the training. Nikita further added that 1st yearites did not show much enthusiasm for the tryouts although a large number of 2nd year girls turned up. “Generally, students have a tendency not to participate in their 1st year but they do turn up in the 2nd year”, was the captain’s explanation to the low response. On being asked if she was satisfied with the field conditions, Nikita said that she has been to a number of sports meets and though the field conditions are more or less the same everywhere we could do with some improvement. Reflecting on her team’s achievements in BOSM 2008, Nikita said that the team had a brilliant streak last year, bagging more than 15 medals, and hopes to continue the good performance in this season of BOSM too. Talking about the major competitors this time, Nikita said that SBMJC, Bangalore and Arts and Science College from Mumbai would be the biggest threats but the team is all set to deal with them. She added that there was a lot of last minute rescheduling last year and the volunteers were not available whenever needed, and hopes this BOSM will be different. The captain sound very confident about her team’s preparation for BOSM. Let’s hope that the girl’s team lives up to expectations and succeeds in rewriting history.

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