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{{Short description|Indian field hockey player (born 2003)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2025}}

'''Mahima Tete''' (25 July 2003)<ref>{{Cite web |title=India Tour Of Australia 2025 (Women) Details {{!}} Tournaments - Hockey India - Hockey India |url=https://hockeyindia.org/schedule/details/india-tour-of-australia--2025--women- |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=hockeyindia.org}}</ref> is an Indian hockey player from [[Jharkhand]]. She plays for the [[India women's national field hockey team]] as a midfielder. She plays for Jharkhand in the domestic tournaments.

== Early life ==
Tete is from a village in [[Simdega district]], Jharkhand. She is the younger sister of Olympian [[Salima Tete]]. She took up hockey at an early age like all the children in Simdega but she stopped at the age of nine in 2012 to focus on studies. But she was persuaded to get bach, and she started playing hockey again after about a year.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-05-12 |title=Mahima Tete looking to follow in sister Salima's footsteps |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/hockey/top-stories/mahima-tete-looking-to-follow-in-sister-salimas-footsteps/articleshow/100194237.cms |access-date=2025-07-04 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> Both the sisters were initially coached by their father Sulakshan.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-04-14 |title=Tete sisters, Salima & Mahima, set to take field for India Down Under |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/tete-sisters-salima-mahima-set-to-take-field-for-india-down-under/articleshow/120288695.cms |access-date=2025-07-04 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref>

== Career ==
Tete made her debut as a junior player and toured [[Ireland]] in June 2022, and later, [[South Africa]] with the Indian under 23 team.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ganguly |first=Achintya |date=27 May 2022 |title=Olympian's kin in national junior women's hockey squad |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/jharkhand/olympians-kin-selected-for-national-junior-womens-hockey-squad/cid/1867029#goog_rewarded |access-date=4 July 2025 |website=The Telegraph}}</ref> In August 2023, she played the 2023 4 Nations Junior Women's Invitational Tournament at Düsseldorf.<ref name=":0" /> In December 2023, she also played the Junior World Cup at Santiago.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Tete Mahima {{!}} India hockey player |url=https://www.fih.hockey/events/others/women/2023-4-nations-junior-womens-invitational-tournament-d-sseldorf-1555/player/tete-mahima-27344 |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=International Hockey Federation |language=en}}</ref> But her first full-fledged international tournament is the Junior Asia Cup in June 2023 at [[Kakamigahara]], Japan.<ref name=":0" />

She was part of the international tour of [[Australia]] from 26 April to 4 May at [[Perth]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranjan |first=Mukesh |date=2025-04-16 |title=5 girls from Simdega named in national hockey team |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Apr/16/5-girls-from-simdega-named-in-national-hockey-team |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> Later, she trained as part of the 40 probables at the Senior India camp at [[Sports Authority of India|SAI]], [[Bengaluru|Bangalore]] and was selected to play the FIH Pro League 2024-25 European leg, which was played from 14 June to 29 June at London, Antwerp, and Berlin.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chowdhury |first=Rohan |date=2025-05-15 |title=Mahima Tete: Our parents are proud of us, two sisters representing the national team |url=https://revsportz.in/mahima-tete-our-parents-are-proud-of-us-two-sisters-representing-the-national-team/ |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=Revsportz {{!}} Sports News Portal {{!}} Latest Sports Articles |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Domestic ===
Tete played a crucial role in all the five matches for Jharkhand which won the 15th Senior Women National Championship in 2024. Jharkhand beat Haryana in the shootout of the final match.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Latest Hockey News and Updates - Hockey India |url=https://www.hockeyindia.org/news/didi-supports-me-a-lot-mahima-shares-her-experience-training-with-sister-and-captain-salima-tete-at-the-senior-national-camp |access-date=2025-07-04 |website=www.hockeyindia.org}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:2003 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Simdega district]]
[[Category:Field hockey players from Jharkhand]]
[[Category:Indian women's field hockey players]]
[[Category:Sportswomen from Jharkhand]]
[[Category:21st-century Indian sportswomen]]

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