HAJARA HARUNA BIOGRAPHY


HAJARA HARUNA BIOGRAPHY
Hajara Haruna original sporting passion was football. She took up football in her sophomore year at high school. Given her athletic physique, friends, teachers and family encouraged her to take up sports despite coming from a society of female involvement in sport is not common. In her late high school, she began to take an interest in athletics. She participated in a number of disciplines early on, competing in 100m,200m and the relays events at the school championships and winning a medal in each.

In 2016, the journey of Hajara to athletics stardom began, where her childhood friend Abdulhakeem Idris suggested to her if she enjoyed sports, she should take up athletics, as she was already regularly beating the boys in her class in sprints but at that moment it took awhile before she give up her dreams of football. Abdulhakeem was already a newly member of CFASF, where he introduced her to Coach Felix.

While training and schooling under CFASF. She made her debut outing for CFASF at AFN all-comers Abuja in November 2017 to rub shoulders with her more experienced counterparts and posted 12.73s and 25.92s in 100m and 200m respectively. A week later, She raced at the First AFN Golden League, Kaduna where she posted 12.85s.

At May 2018 she was shortlisted for the third African Youth Games in Algeria as a result to her performance at the 2017 AFN all comers Abuja. She made her journey to National Camp at Abuja, where she was converted to 400m hurdler. While train and preparing for African Youth Games, The camp athletes travelled to Ozoro for trials to help in the selection of athletes to rep Nigeria. It was an arduous 10-hour trip to Ozoro which they checked in around 11pm less than 12-hour to her race but Hajara was able to overcome the fatigue to put up a formidable performance in only her first outing for the season. 

In her first lifetime 400m hurdles race at the U18 and U20 National Championship at Ozoro, she was in the middle of the pack after 300 meters but sprinted past the entire field the last 100 meters to pull out a then PB of 76.61s. But unfortunately after putting the hard work and dedication she was dropped at the week of the African Youth Games.

During the preparation of the National Sports Festival,Abuja2018 workout session in November, she pulled her hamstring. As a result, she could barely even run. She was slated to run in the 100m but pulled out to only run the mixed 4×100m. While still injured, She went on to play a pivotal role in the mixed 4x100m for Team Kaduna.

Hajara got off to an uncharacteristically season in 2019. Due to the hamstring pulled during National Sports Festival, She took the rest of the year to give her hamstring more time to heal while she focus on her academics. It is not easy to combined sport and academics. Those who have not experienced it firsthand cannot fully comprehend the commitment that is required or the tremendous challenges you face day in and day out as a student-athlete which you manage not just to meet those expectations, but to exceed them. She wanted to become a doctor. Because it was hard to combine athletics training with medical school, she switched to Economics.

Hajara bounced back into reckoning in 2020! She competed in her first of race of the season after just training for about 50 days since her one year off the track where she put up encouraging performances, opening with a Season’s Best (SB) of 13.32s at the Kaduna State Sports Festival. But the outbreak of Covid-19 came as a blessing for her where she has the opportunity to train and prepare for the season.

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