joyshree devi couldnt be any happier when she first got to know that this years subjunior girls and boys national boxing championships would be held at the inspire institute of sports iis in bellary karnatakatraining there since 2018 the girl from manipur went on to win the only gold medal for manipur in the meet after she earned a commanding 50 victory against haryanas hanshikha in the 60kg final moreover she was also won the best boxer award in the girls sectionalthough still very young the resident of mayang imphal already dreams of becoming an olympic champion one day its a long journey but she is on the right coursedaughter of a former football goalkeeper she followed in her fathers footsteps in her childhood but then shifted to boxing later and started training at sarita devis boxing academyi used to play football with my brothers and friends just as a hobby but as it is a team sport i knew it will be difficult so i choose boxing over football also for boxing there was a proper academy but for football we were playing just like that so i started to go for boxing practice in sarita devis boxing academy said joyshree during an interaction with toiit was in 2017 that iis held a trial in manipur and she got selected along with a friend however she had to wait another year to make the journey and it was quite tough in the beginning for the then nineyearoldcommunication was a bit hard but coaches and staff were very supportive i missed home but i knew what i had to do and what is important for that said the young pugilistwhile this was joyshrees first national meet she earlier took part in karnataka mini olympics and an invitational state competition in manipur and came out victorious in both but taking part in the national meet was indeed special for the class viii studentthe final was tough but it was good since it was held at iis the crowd was cheering for me and it gave me a lot of confidence i was very happy because a lot of people came to watch my match and i made all of them happy by winning said the cristiano ronaldo fan