FULL NAME: Sanhita Das
BORN: July 10, 1970 at Dhenkanal
GENDER: Female
MARITAL STATUS: Married
PRESENT ADDRESS: Plot No 1352, Shastri Nagar, Unit-IV, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
TELEPHONE NO: 9438254646 (Mobile)
FAMILY MEMBERS: Late Sadananda Das (Father), Kiranbala Das (Mother), Trilochan Dash (Husband), Biswajit Dash (Son), Aparajita Dash (Daughter)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Arts graduate
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION: Did diploma in kabaddi and kho-kho at National Institute of Sports (NIS), Gandhinagar, Gujarat (1992-1993).
TYPE OF PLAYER: Raider
FIRST COACH: Bijay Kumar Gon
OTHER GAMES PLAYED: Kho-kho
PROFESSION: Serving as a kabaddi coach in Orissa Council of Sports (Government of Odisha) since 25th August 1993.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AS PLAYER:
*     Represented Orissa twice in Senior National Kabaddi Championship (1991, 1992).
*     Represented Orissa twice in Junior National Kabaddi Championship (1989, 1990).
*     Represented Orissa once in Women’s National Sports Festival (1992).
*     Represented Orissa 14 times in National Kho-kho Championship (1984 to 1993).

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS AS COACH:
*     She was coach of the Odisha U-21 girls kho-kho team that won Bronze medal at the 3rd Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati, Assam on 18 January, 2020.
*     She was the coach of the Indian squad for the 2nd Asian Beach Games, held at Muscat, Oman in 2010.
*     She shaped the careers of around 25 National level kabaddi players including Sanjukta Rout, Banita Dalei, Subhadra Mallick, Minati Murmu, Sraddhanjali Panda and Bidyutprava Swain.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
*     Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik conferred her with the Biju Patnaik Award for Excellence in Coaching in Bhubaneswar on August 29, 2017. She received the award along with a cheque of Rs 1 lakh for the year 2016.

PROFILE FIRST UPLOADED: 26 May, 2009
PROFILE LAST UPDATED: 26 March, 2020