Nida Jamali: 15-year-old proud wrestler from Sindh

Nida hails from district Badin, Sindh, and is studying at a high school in Yuba City, California, under the U.S. government’s Youth Exchange Program.

According to Nida’s relative, during her studies, she developed an interest in wrestling. She received formal training before the event and did well. The young athlete participated in three events of 116-pound categories and won all of them.

Nida is equally brilliant in studies as she is one of the 77 persons out of 6500 applicants that passed the scholarship test held for Youth Exchange Program. Not only did she pass the test, but she also topped it.

This Sindhi girl has made Pakistan proud by her remarkable achievement.

Thanks to Nida, more women would be inspired to look the sport up, maybe many of them too would participate and this could be the start of something great. We might start to see more and more women participating in different sports now!

Wrestling has always been a male-dominated sport in Pakistan. We would’ve never thought we’d even see a girl participate in a wrestling event let alone win it.