Lalremsiami Hmarzote is Mizoram's first Arjuna Award winner. (Instagram)
\n\nLalremsiami Hmarzote is probably the most famous person in Mizoram right now. But how did she go from a school sports day to becoming her state's first Arjuna Award winner?
\n\nShe was only eleven years old and also had no idea what the game was even called.
\n\n"When I started playing hockey, I didn't know anything about it," Lalremsiami says, while speaking exclusively to Sports Now.
\n\n"I was just given a hockey stick and a ball, and I was told how to play. That's how I started."
\n\nHer hockey journey began at a school annual sports competition, in a state where hockey barely registers. Mizoram is famous for football. Lalremsiami played that too, in the gaps between classes, without really any understanding of which position she was playing.
\n\n"I was very young at that time," she says.
\n\n"I didn't understand anything like forward or midfielder. Football is available wherever you want to play."
\n\nLalremsiami opened up about her introduction to hockey. (Instagram)
\n\nFor her personally, hockey was different. It required a stick, a surface, an academy. She found one in Mizoram, and then she learned the basics.
\n\n"When I joined the…
Original source: https://www.timesnownews.com/sports
