Pillai Sports Academy Athletes made history at State Jr. Athletics Meet
Athletes with Dr. K. M. Vasudevan Pillai, CEO (Pillai Group of Institutions) and the teaching staff
Athletes from Pillai Sports Academy, Rasayani was in full swing in the performance during Junior State Athletics Meet held at Balewadi on 17th - 18th August, 2014. With all adverse effect on their practise sessions at Rasayani due to heavy rain, the athlete put up a brave front against the formidable Army Sports Institute, Pune and the Krida Probodhani Athletes from all over Maharashtra.
In the prestigious 100 meter race Diptesh Utekar (Pillai HOCL School) clocked 10.9 sec to secure gold by sending ASI athlete for Silver Medal. Diptesh also secured Silver Medal in 200 meter with a timing of 22.5 as ASI athlete clocked 22.3 sec.
In (U-20) 110 meter High Hurdle Vishal Lokhare easily secured the Gold Medal with a timing of 14.9 and the Silver Medal also goes to Tausif Shaikh from the same academy with timing of 15.6.
In (U-20) 400 meter low Hurdle Tousif Shaikh won the Gold Medal with a clocked timing of 57.8 sending his arch rival from Nagpur to clock 61.3 for silver Medal.
In under 16 boys 200 meters race Gurunath Mashlikar from the Academy won the Gold Medal with a timing of 23.2 sec.
In Under 16 boys Pentathlon an injured Suraj Sawar from the academy settled with Silver Medal with a score of 2533 points as ASI athlete won the Gold Medal.
All the athletes are students of Pillai HOC Educational Campus as selected for National Athletics Meet Scheduled to be held at Bilaspur in the first week of October 2014.