Arjuna Award Nomination Will Motivate Us To Perform Better: Vandana Katariya, Monika

Indian women’s hockey team gamers Vandana Katariya and Monika are elated following staying nominated for the Arjuna Awards and believes that this recommendation will motivate them to drive more challenging. Hockey India on Tuesday declared the nomination, Indian women’s team captain Rani Rampal for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award though her compatriots Vandana Katariya, Monika and Harmanpreet Singh have been nominated for the Arjuna Award.

“It can be amazing to be nominated for the Arjuna Award. I am absolutely sure this nomination will be a substantial motivation variable for us in the approaching a long time. I could not have done at my greatest if I failed to have fantastic teammates. They have usually been on my side and the whole credit score for my performances goes to them. It was excellent to know that Rani has been nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award,” Vandana claimed.

“I would like to congratulate her for the nomination, and Monika and Harmanpreet for staying nominated for the Arjuna Award,” she added.

The 28-12 months-aged ahead claimed the Indian women’s team has a incredibly balanced squad and is incredibly self-confident of undertaking on the huge phase.

“We are undoubtedly transferring in the right path at the second. The equilibrium of the side is amazing and we have to just maintain transferring ahead. The self confidence of our team is large and I am absolutely sure we will be able to set up great performances on the huge phase. We are evolving incredibly very well as a team and have a good frame of mind at the second,” claimed Vandana.

Vandana who has above two hundred global caps and Monika with 150 global caps have played vital roles in the Indian team’s sensational wins in 2019 which include the FIH Sequence Finals in Hiroshima, Tokyo 2020 Olympics Test Party and the FIH Hockey Olympic Qualifiers in Bhubaneswar. Monika expressed that she is particularly honoured to be nominated for the Arjuna Award.

“I am particularly honoured to be nominated for the Arjuna Award. Heartiest congratulations to Rani for staying nominated for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. I would like to extend my congratulations to Vandana and Harmanpreet as very well for the Arjuna Award nominations,” Monika.claimed.

“The nomination will absolutely motivate me to execute even far better for my team. We produced excellent outcomes in 2019 and hopefully, we will proceed our form the moment we start out playing matches,” she added.

The 26-12 months-aged added that the Indian women”s team will give almost everything to file a good result at the Olympics future 12 months.

“All of us have only one goal and that is to do very well at the Olympics. We have wonderful-tuned many of our expertise in the recent previous and we are ready to give almost everything we have to set up fantastic performances at the quadrennial event future 12 months. We have a great equilibrium of encounter and youth in our team and we are technically audio as very well. We are keen to do very well for our country,” the midfielder claimed.