Mahima Choudhary

Mahima Choudhary (born 6 December 1999) is an Indian field hockey player and member of Indian women hockey team. She hails from Kalsi village in Uttar Pradesh. She plays for Indian Oil Corporation Limited in the domestic hockey tournaments. She plays as a defender.

Early life Mahima started playing in 2011. She played for four consecutive years in the Hockey India Sub-Junior National Championships before she got the National call for Junior India camp. Hailing from a Ror family from a small rural village, Kalsi in Uttar Pradesh, her family shifted to Sonipat, Haryana to help her play hockey.

Hockey career In 2015, she represented Haryana in the 5th Hockey India Junior National Championship at Chhattisgarh. In December 2021, she was named among the 60 probables for the India camp in Bengaluru to prepare for Women's Asia Cup 2022 in January. She was selected as the vice-captain for the nine-member Indian women's hockey team in May 2022 for the inaugural FIH Women's Hockey 5s tournament held in Lausanne, Switzerland from 4 to 5 June. She scored the winning goal in the final of the inaugural women's Hockey 5s Asia Cup final to beat Thailand 7–2. It was the Asia's qualifying tournament for the Women's Hockey 5s World Cup to be held in 2024.