ACHIEVEMENT -- 15:

SISTER-BROTHER DUO SELECTED FOR NATIONAL CUE CHAMPIONSHIP

 By P S SUNDAR 

 

Coonoor-based college student and her school going brother have brought laurels to The Nilgiris district by getting selected to represent Tamil Nadu in the National Billiards and Snooker championship to be held in Bhopal.   If selected at the Nationals, they stand a chance to represent India in international tourneys.

 

This follows their winning Medals and places at the 37^th TN State Championship 2021 held in Chennai.

 

Mariam Agnish (20) studying in BCom (final year) in Providence College for Women in Coonoor made a clean sweep by annexing Medals in both Snooker and Billiards in all the four categories she contested.

 

She told me, “In Snooker state championship, I won two Silver Medals each in Ladies and under-21 categories.   In Billiards, I won Silver in Ladies category and Bronze in under-21 category”.

 

Mariam had represented India in World Snooker championship twice in Russia and once in Belgium.

 

She holds the credit of being the only female from The Nilgiris district to have represented India in official international cue game tourneys abroad.

 

Her brother Sham Alwin (13), studying in VIII standard in Stanes Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School, Coonoor, has bagged two ranks.

 

He said, “In the state championship of under-18 category, I bagged Fourth Place in Billiards and Fifth in Snooker and have been selected for the Nationals in both”.

 

Earlier at the selections held in Tirupur, he bagged Gold in both Billiards and Snooker.

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