For most of the women in the Chitown Muslim Athletics group, as kids they had to give up gloves, cleats and hockey sticks because of their faith. As adults, they're empowering each other to get back in the game.
Wednesday is Muslim Women's Day. The Chitown Muslim Athletics group is working to empower Muslim women in sports.A group of local Muslim women in Chicago are redefining what it means to be an athlete.
She said it was because she wore a hijab, the only player on the team to do so. Now Aliahmed is surrounded by hundreds of women, who at one point were also forced to choose between faith and sport.Illinois' only female professional boxing official aims to open doors for women in the sport "Moms would come and watch the girls play on the sidelines," Farooq Shaikh said. "And they said to us, 'mom, we want this for ourselves.'"
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