Sports and Youth Welfare Minister, Mr. Vinod Tawde, awarded the highest award in Maharashtra for sports, the Shiv Chhatrapati award, to Sathaye College Sports trainer, Miss Mohini Sawant, for the year 2015-2016. The awards were announced for 3 years starting from 2014-15 to 2016-17.
Mohini Sawant is the Junior College sports teacher at Sathaye and a well-known sportsperson in the field of power-lifting. Mohini has also won 10 District level gold medals, 15 at the state level and 8 at a national level in powerlifting. She has also received a Bronze medal in the Asian Powerlifting championship in 2017.
She has been in this sport for the past 7 years and has been training the students of Sathaye College in Powerlifting and Weightlifting since 2011.