All for the ball

A handball and rugby player, 22-year-old Khusnaz Jogi participated in the All India Women’s Handball tournament recently held in Jaipur. Playing competitive handball since 2006, she was earlier captain of the Sardar Dastur Hormazdiar High School handball team and when studying for her BCom at St Mira’s College, she took the initiative to train and form a handball team for her college. A national level player, she now plays in the women’s open tournaments.
Also a national level rugby player, Jogi who participated in the first Rugby Sevens Women’s national tournament in 2009 and many national games thereafter is "working hard to be selected on the Indian Women’s Rugby team,” according to a write-up by Parinaz Patel Jokhi. She started playing rugby after her school coach Sanjay Kamble and senior in school, Vahbiz Bharucha, encouraged her to join the RFS Pune Rugby Club under coach Shurud Khare.

Khushnaz Jogi

Invited on Radio One, 94.3 fm to speak on rugby and encourage the youth to play this game, Jogi who divides her time between these two games mentions that "Rugby sessions are held every alternate morning. I practice handball in the College, either in the morning or evenings.” She has been currently advised to slow down due to a knee injury. Keen to pursue a career in sports, she plans to study sports management after graduation. Her achievements in sports have won her many prizes from the Sadhu Vaswani Foundation and she was also recognized as the best sports girl in her college.
Besides sports, Jogi loves to dance with the Shiamak Davar troupe, and is a beautician. Her family "who have been extremely supportive towards my high interest in sports” includes father Bezan, proprietor of Combustion Technologies, whose engineering expertise is in demand for troubleshooting of industrial oil and gas fired burners; mother Jasmine who works for Bharat Forge Limited as an executive assistant to the promoter and is also chairperson of the Poona chapter of the Indian Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals; and elder sister Penaz who is settled in the US.
A handball and rugby player, 22-year-old Khusnaz Jogi participated in the All India Women’s Handball tournament recently held in Jaipur. Playing competitive handball since 2006, she was earlier captain of the Sardar Dastur Hormazdiar High School handball team and when studying for her BCom at St Mira’s College, she took the initiative to train and form a handball team for her college. A national level player, she now plays in the women’s open tournaments.
Also a national level rugby player, Jogi who participated in the first Rugby Sevens Women’s national tournament in 2009 and many national games thereafter is "working hard to be selected on the Indian Women’s Rugby team,” according to a write-up by Parinaz Patel Jokhi. She started playing rugby after her school coach Sanjay Kamble and senior in school, Vahbiz Bharucha, encouraged her to join the RFS Pune Rugby Club under coach Shurud Khare.
Invited on Radio One, 94.3 fm to speak on rugby and encourage the youth to play this game, Jogi who divides her time between these two games mentions that "Rugby sessions are held every alternate morning. I practice handball in the College, either in the morning or evenings.” She has been currently advised to slow down due to a knee injury. Keen to pursue a career in sports, she plans to study sports management after graduation. Her achievements in sports have won her many prizes from the Sadhu Vaswani Foundation and she was also recognized as the best sports girl in her college.
Besides sports, Jogi loves to dance with the Shiamak Davar troupe, and is a beautician. Her family "who have been extremely supportive towards my high interest in sports” includes father Bezan, proprietor of Combustion Technologies, whose engineering expertise is in demand for troubleshooting of industrial oil and gas fired burners; mother Jasmine who works for Bharat Forge Limited as an executive assistant to the promoter and is also chairperson of the Poona chapter of the Indian Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals; and elder sister Penaz who is settled in the US.