Khadijah is a Mother, Project Manager and a Team USA and Silver Ironman All-World Triathlete. Her MISSION is to Promote a Positive Image of Muslim Women and Islam in General through Sport.
“Training and racing started off as my therapy to recover from a failing marriage and the loss of loved ones to cancer. It has remained that but has also become how I express myself and share who I am as Muslim, a Mother and a Woman.” Her GOAL is to open dialogue and connect women of all backgrounds on a personal level by sharing common experiences, joys and struggles through healthy living, group training and healthy competition. “I have learned traveling all over the country and the World to race, that at the core, we are more the same than different. The struggles of motherhood and just being female are universal and it binds us as women.”
Never imagining the state the World in 2020, during the 2018 off-season, Khadijah started a series of free Web Get-Togethers open to everyone, to discuss common and not so common endurance athlete topics. “It’s an amazing opportunity for experienced triathletes to share experience and experiences with new triathletes. It’s like having everyone over, just online.” These webinars can be found on her YouTube Channel or on Google Podcasts for your morning or evening commute.
In 2020 Khadijah launched The Diversity Infusion Syndicate. The Team seeks to diversify the landscape of Triathlon by offering new and growing demographics a high quality, unique:
1. Education about and introduction to the sport of Triathlon
2. Transition to long course and/or competitive Triathlon
3. Method of coaching and grooming under-represented demographic group in the Triathlon Community, Muslim Women and Women of Color.
The goal is to build upon proven and tested methods, science, her experience as a Woman, an African-American and a Hijabi in the sport of Triathlon, as well as relationships with specialists in swimming, cycling, running, nutrition, strength training and yoga to provide a World-class coaching experience at minimal cost to committed triathletes.
Why?In short, it is the right thing to do.
“If you are fortunate enough to have opportunity, it is your DUTY to make sure others have opportunity as well.”
– Vice President Kamala Harris
“I have been supported and uplifted by a large and diverse community of people from literally around the World. They have given me or shown me opportunity where I didn’t see one. I have an obligation to do the same for others within my own sphere of ability.”
– Khadijah Diggs
Khadijah’s MANTRAS/HASHTAGS are:
#NeverGiveUpOnYourself,
#DreamAndGrind
#LiveByLove and
most recently #SheLIVED in honor of a friend lost to breast cancer as a reminder to herself and to all to LIVE now.