Young athletes to the fore

It was a hectic week for sportspersons from diverse fields. We present some of the best ones. (Top left) An overwhelming number of budding footballers from across 240 government, private and aided schools in Nalgonda, Yadadri and Suryapet districts turned up for the third ‘Mission XI Million Seminar’ (MXIM) programme at the NG College in Nalgonda.

The seminar’s highlight was a quiz programme that was aimed at popularizing the sport as a run-up to the FIFA Under-17 World Cup that is being hosted by India later in the year. District Collector Gourav Uppal, MP Gutha Sukhender Reddy, Dubbaka Narsimha Reddy, NDFA president, G Venkat Ram, AGM Nalgonda are seen with PETs and students.

(Top right): All the winners in the GHMC Swimming Championship-2017 that was held for boys and girls in the Under-8 to U-14 categories pose with their respective trophies. There was a huge response from schools from all over the twin cities; (left) O Veunela and Ch Srihita(FKS) RJM pose with their trophies after winning the senior girls badminton doubles title in the XXVI AP & Telangana Regional Sports Meet-2017, conducted by Association of ICSE and ISC Schools, AP and Telangana Region ay Victory Play Ground.

In the finals, they defeated Varshini and Anandita 21-06, 21-06; (Down): South Central Railway basketball players Vishal Kumar and Nihal Yadav being introduced to players before the inauguration of the third Inter-school Basketball tournament for boys and girls in memory of Late Bro. Jagan Mohan Reddy and Late Bro Ravi Kumar Reddy at St Paul’s High School in Hyderabad.