Two NRIs from US swimmer selected for India team in Doha 2006 Asian Games

India's Swimming Federation has selected two NRIs (out of six probables) from US for Indian swimmers to attend the coaching camp for the Doha Asian Games. The federation says it has got reasons to be optimistic about the chances of the University of Southern California student. Poseria has been coached by Dave Salo, who was in charge of the American national swimming team in the past and had handled swimming wizards like Michael Phelps and Ian Crocker.

• NRI Ankur Poseria from from Ohio, hails from Indore
• NRI Nilasha Ghosh from San Jose, hails from Kolkata
• Indians include:
  • Arjun Muralidharan of Police, completed a hat-trick of "Best Swimmer" titles
  • Veerdhaval Khade of Maharashtra
  • Rehan Poncha (Karnataka)
  • Shikha Tandon of Karnataka among women.

The Doha 2006 Asian Games will take place in and around Doha, Qatar, December 1-15, 2006

NRI Ankur Poseria and Nilasha Ghosh swimmers continue to train under their respective American Olympian coaches and we will be monitoring their progress too," Nanavati added.

Nilasha Ghosh

Nilasha Ghosh of Kolkata is the are the US-based swimmer, who has been selected by the Standard University for a four-year term purely on her swimming performance, clocked 1:03.25 seconds in 100 metres butterly and 26.74 seconds in 50 freestyle in the US Open National Championships held in August. The qualifying time for Asian Games in both her events read 1:03;08 secs and 26.60 secs respectively.

Class: Freshman,

Hometown: San Jose,

High School: Lynbrook

Height:5-8

Event: Fly/Free/IM

Birthdate: 12/21/1988

Experience: HS

Last Club: DeAnza Cupertino Aquatics

High School: A 2006 graduate of Lynbrook High School • Coached by Patrick Ellington • Won seven individual All-American awards • Mercury News Bay Area Swimmer of the Year • 100 Fly Central Coast Section Record Breaker (54.35).

Club: DeAnza Cupertino Aquatics (2001-Present) • Coached by Ray Kovich • Rockville Montgomery Swim Club (1999-2001) • Curl Burke (1997-99).

Getting To Know Nilasha Ghosh
• Favorite Food ... Pizza
• Favorite Movie ... Zoolander
• If I could spend a day with anyone it would be ... Salvador Dali
• The Stanford women's swimming and diving team will be fun to watch this year because ... Everyone is so talented

Top Times
SCY: 100 Fly (54.35), 200 IM (2:01.86), 50 Free (23.50), 100 Free (50.34)

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