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{{Short description|Indian hockey player}}
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{{Infobox field hockey player
| name = Kanika Siwach
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| birth_place = [[Sonipat]], [[Haryana]], India | death_date =
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| position = Forward
| currentclub = Odisha Warriors (Hero Hockey India League)
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| clubs1 = Railway Sports Promotion Board
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| clubs2 = Hockey Haryana}}

'''Kanika Siwach''' (born 1 August 2005) is an Indian Junior [[field hockey]] player from Haryana.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kanika Siwach - Hockey India |url=https://hockeyindia.org/players/kanika-siwach-profile-9731 |access-date=2026-02-16 |website=hockeyindia.org}}</ref> She was selected for the senior Indian team ahead of the 2024-25 [[Hockey Pro League|FIH Hockey Pro League]] for women.<ref name=":0" /> She plays as a forward for [[Railways Sports Promotion Board|Railway Sports Promotion Board]] and Hockey Haryana in the domestic tournaments and for [[Odisha Warriors]] in the [[Hockey India League|Hero Hockey India League]].

== Early life ==
She is from Sonipat, Haryana. Her father Kuldeep Siwach, her mother Pritam Rani, and her brother Yashdeep, were hockey players.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Selvaraj |first=Jonathan |date=2025-11-24 |title=100 years of Indian hockey — A mother’s medal, a daughter’s dream: Inside the Siwach hockey story |url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/hockey/kanika-siwach-pritam-siwach-india-junior-hockey-profile/article70316437.ece |access-date=2026-02-16 |website=Sportstar |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> She is a product of Pritam Siwach Hockey Academy in Sonipat which is run by her mother Pritam Rani, a former Indian captain and Dronacharya Awardee.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anand |first=Anish |date=2025-02-23 |title=All in the family: Yashdeep Siwach inspired by mother Pritam's fighting spirit |url=https://www.espn.in/field-hockey/story/_/id/43974806/yashdeep-siwach-inspired-mother-pritam-siwach-fighting-spirit |access-date=2026-02-16 |website=ESPN |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
She played the Junior World Cup as part of the [[India women's national under-21 field hockey team]] at Santiago, Chile from 1 to 13 December 2025.<ref name=":0">https://tms.fih.ch/people/33267</ref>

In December 2024, she make her Junior India debut in the under-21 Women’s Junior Asia Cup 2024 at Muscat, Oman, where she scored eight goals in six matches including two hat-tricks.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |date=2025-01-15 |title=Kanika, 19, makes winning HIL start in front of ‘proud’ hockey parents |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/117239545.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst |access-date=2026-02-16 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title='Junior Asia Cup title win taught us lot about mental toughness' says Odisha Warriors forward Kanika Siwach |url=https://www.aninews.in/news/sports/hockey/junior-asia-cup-title-win-taught-us-lot-about-mental-toughness-says-odisha-warriors-forward-kanika-siwach20241219124738/ |access-date=2026-02-16 |website=ANI News |language=en}}</ref>

In May 2024, she was name in the Indian junior women's team for the Europe tour for six matches across Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-06 |title=Jyoti Singh To Lead Indian Junior Women's Hockey Team For Europe Tour |url=https://www.outlookindia.com/sports/hockey/jyoti-singh-to-lead-indian-junior-womens-hockey-team-for-europe-tour |access-date=2026-02-16 |website=Outlook India |language=en}}</ref>

=== Domestic career ===
In November 2023, she represented Haryana in the 37th National Games (Women) at Goa. Again in February 2025, she played for Haryana in the 38th National Games at Haridwar, Uttarakhand. Earlier in December 2021 she represented Pritam Siwach Hockey Academy in the Khelo India Women’s Hockey League 2021 (Under 21) Phase 1at Delhi, and in February 2022, she took part in Phase 2 at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.<ref>https://hockeyindia.altiusrt.com/people/19387</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:2005 births]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Haryana]]
[[Category:Women's field hockey forwards]]
[[Category:Hockey India League players]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportswomen]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Sonipat]]
[[Category:Indian women's field hockey players]]

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