Lalremsiami’s fledgling career, as strange it sounds, can resemble the ongoing lockdown period due to the Covid-19 pandemic: only a few wee...
Lalremsiami’s fledgling career, as strange it sounds, can resemble the ongoing lockdown period due to the Covid-19 pandemic: only a few weeks have gone by but, at times, can leave you feeling that it has been ages.
The forward has been with the senior team for just over two years but it would not be a stretch to call her one of the crucial members of the India women’s hockey team.
Barely out of her teens, Lalremsiami has already made a mark, on and off the field. Defenders and goalkeepers struggle to keep pace with the Mizo forward’s movement and eye for goal. Her trophy cabinet is also running out of space. Recently, she became the first Indian woman to be handed the the FIH Rising Star Award.
Nicknamed ‘Siami’, her career has only seen an upward trajectory so far and is far from resting on her laurels.
“These awards don’t put pressure on me at all,” Lalremsiami told Scroll.in. “I wasn’t expecting to win anything, to be honest. But I feel that the awards will motivate me even more to put in the hard yards and perform for my team in the biggest of stages. I have to continue playing the way I have been in the...
