PR Sreejesh recalls when his wife Aneeshya wrote him 16 letters on his 16th birthday

Speaking about how his love story with Aneeshya began the 36-year-old said,” When I left home at 12 to join GV Raja Sports School, I got homesick, so my best friends were teachers. Coaches used to be harsh, but teachers pampered us. I was a decent student, always in the top three, so it was easy to be a teacher’s pet.”

“Then Aneeshya joined the school in 9th grade. She was a good athlete but was a buddhijeevi as we say in Malayalam, a bookworm. When I got 38-40 marks, it was top of the class, but she came and scored 49, 50. Teachers began telling me to study like her (laughs),” he added.

“We didn’t get along at first. That’s how love stories start, right? In 10th grade, I got selected for the national under-16 camp and began missing classes. So as it usually happens, I relied on the best student for notes. That’s how we started talking. Study sessions brought us closer, and we became best friends. She then left the school, returned to her hometown, and we exchanged letters for two years,” Sreejesh recalled.

Sreejesh announced his retirement earlier this year after winning a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics 2024. Aneeshya said speaking to The Indian Express at the time. “I don’t know how it is to see him as a retired sportsman. From the day I first met him, he has been a sportsman.”