Mayo Hagino

Mayo Hagino (born 9 March 1993) is a Japanese wheelchair basketball player. She is a member of the Japan women's national wheelchair basketball team and her club Scratch. In 2021 she competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Hagino has a spinal cord injury due to a spinal tumour. She learned about wheelchair basketball by news article about a player of Miyagi Max. She went to watch the Japanese women's team train in Miyagi Prefecture. Ikumi Fujii, a player of the team, invited her to start playing with Miyagi Max. She did, and started playing seriously in 2009.

Career

She played with the national team at the 2010 Asian Para Games winning the gold medal. She also competed at the 2010 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship, where she finished with the team seventh. Four years later at the World Championships they finished nineth. At the 2015 under-25 World Championship she became a "All Star Five Player". She won with the team the silver medal at the 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta. She competed at the 2019 Asia Oceania Championships. She became an "All Star Five Player" at the 2020 All Japan Championships.

Education

She studied at the Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai.