Aisha Mohammed (born 21 October 1985) is a Nigerian basketball player for Bursas BSB and the Nigerian national team.[1][2]

Aisha Mohammed

No. 9 – Bursas BSB
Position	Forward
League	TKBL
Personal information
Born	(1985-10-21) 21 October 1985 (age 37) Lagos, Nigeria
Nationality	Nigerian
Listed height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Listed weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Career information
College	Virginia (2009)
WNBA draft	2009 / Undrafted
Medals Women's basketball Representing  Nigeria AfroBasket 2003 Mozambique 2005 Nigeria 2017 Mali 2019 Senegal

Early life and education

Aisha was born in Ikeja, Lagos cantonment to a northern father.[3] Her mother was from Edo state. She grew up in the military barracks. She left with her family at 8years when her father was transferred to Keffi. From there, they moved again to Birnin Kebbi and then to Port Harcourt. Her dad was an Imam. Aisha stands tall at 193cm / 6'4".[4]

Career

Aisha is a member of the 'Elephant Girls' Basketball Team.[5] The team won over the FAP side 69-66 in the semi-finals which earned them a place at the Maxaquene Stadium.[6] She strike 23 points and got the seven rebounds that enabled the 'Elephant Girls' to win the game.

Aisha played at the FIBA Women's World Cup in Brasil, 2006, and also in Spain 2019, she helped them qualify to the Quarter-Finals. That was the very first time for an African side to qualify to the quarter-final FIBA Women's World Cup in history. Aisha helped the Nigeria women's national basketball team to the 2004 Summer Olympics. At the Olympics Athen 2004, she was the third best scorer and rebounder in the team with double double, however Nigeria finished 11th out of 12 teams. They became the first African team to ever win a game at the Olympics. And also she Participated in Tokyo 2020 Olympics in July 2021. Aisha played at the First Bank side.[7][8] In 2019 after the FIBA Women’s Afrobasket, Aisha announced that she would not play at the biennial championship again.[9] She stopped playing basketball after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as she said she needed to raise a family where her children will take over with playing basketball.

Achievements

• FIBA Women's AfroBasket 2017 [10]

• four titles winner with the African Champions: 2003, 2005, 2017 and 2019

• D’Tigress captain [11][12]

References

External links

• Aisha Mohammed at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
• Aisha Mohammed at FIBA

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