Telangana sailors set for big leap

Hyderabad: The State sailors had a good 2021 as they bagged 12 medals at the national events. Vaishnavi Veravamsham and Preethi Kongara had finished an impressive year with bronze medals from Mumbai Nationals and all set for another good year. The two impressive girls have moved into the senior category from Under-15. They have been […]

Hyderabad: The State sailors had a good 2021 as they bagged 12 medals at the national events. Vaishnavi Veravamsham and Preethi Kongara had finished an impressive year with bronze medals from Mumbai Nationals and all set for another good year.

The two impressive girls have moved into the senior category from Under-15. They have been selected for the Asian Regatta, scheduled to be held in Abu Dhabi in February 2022.

The Yacht Club of Hyderabad Foundation searches for talent from amongst economically challenged youth and they join at the age of 9 and 10 and are groomed into sailors of international calibre with the finest of education, equipment, training and nutrition.

The Naavika Programme was launched in 2016 for the girl sailor and has been a phenomenal success, having trained about 100 girls and selected 12 of them for advanced high performance training.

The State of Telangana has garnered more than 100 medals in the past 10 years with sailors like Vaishnavi Veeravamsham and Jhansi Priya having participated in 5 countries while still below 15 years of age.

Four girls have joined the ecosystem created by the Indian Navy at Mumbai wherein they helm the 470 Mixed Olympic Class of Boats which are ably crewed by Naval officers most of which are 10 years older than them and Preethi Kongara, 17 from YCH and Sudanshu Shekhar, 24 of the Navy clinched a bronze at the recently-concluded YAI Sail India National Ranking event at Mumbai.

19 boys have been absorbed into superb careers into the Army and Navy that will take care of all needs for Sailing and Education till they are fully absorbed.

Vaishnavi is placed India No.2 in the Laser Radial at just 15 and is rapidly improving her technique despite her age and lack of weight in the Laser ILCA 4 class and is training under multiple International coaches and her mentor and primary coach Suheim Sheikh also the President of the YCH.

“This has been a fantastic year for us at the Yacht Club of Hyderabad Foundation and we are now deeply encouraged to mobilise a much large number of sailors from across the state to take them to these heights of performance and our ultimate goal is to provide them with their dream careers alongside”, said Suheim Sheikh.

Ravali Parandi and Jhansi Priya Laveti closed their under 15 Sub-Junior careers at a pinnacle with two medals each at the Nationals.

They moved ahead into the Olympic Classes of boats the 470 mixed and Laser respectively. The sailors joined in 2016 at the age of 10 and are close to the top of the national ranking even before they hit the age of 16.

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