The public decided it and the Sonoran archer was one of the most mentioned among the most famous Hermosillo women in our city, something that the current Olympic medalist has earned thanks to her work.
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So that people know her a little more, the three-time Olympian for Mexico in archery, spoke with The Sun of Hermosillo about his beginnings in the sports world.
“It all started by chance, in those years (around 2003), you hardly heard what archery was. My parents had been told in elementary school to take me to the CUM to look for a sport, “he commented.
“We went and there were many of which athletics, I did not like it, I do not like running, at that time I thought how people run for fun, I tried for a while in voli, baseball, swimming, until once it occurred to us to go to the velodrome with my sister fell and began to bleed ”.
“My dad panicked and those who were close were archery, they were the only ones who were training, we went to ask for help and while they treated my sister, I watched them shoot and it caught my attention,” he explained. .
The Hermosillo, who now ranks among the most important names that the national sport has given for her career in archery, pointed out that it was a sport that she did not know as a child, because in Sonora athletics was a more popular and followed discipline.
“I had never seen them, I had seen Ana Guevara, Cárdenas on TV, I saw them run, it caught my attention and the coach told me that if I wanted to go in, outside tomorrow, I went, they lent me the lying bow (the of the rookies) and they told me here is the paquita (objective), it was three meters, I threw, I did not hit, the next one neither and the next one either “.
“I am somewhat competitive, I said ‘no, how can I not hit it, it’s three meters’, I was going to be nine years old and that’s how progress was, from ‘I want to hit it’, now that you gave it, now rounds to hit the center , since I could, now in five meters, now in 10, 20, 30, since we are there, now all within the black circle, now within the blue circle, then little by little as the goal was going up ”, he pointed out.
The way to success
Although many may think that the path to the top comes in two ways, gifted or impossible, Alejandra is clear that it was not easy, but that everything is possible, because it was not something from one moment to another, but from years work and effort and where he had to commit to move forward.
“Obviously on the way you have many stumbles, which is not going well, the bullying, things like that, but I think I managed to overcome all that, thinking about what I am doing, what I wanted to achieve and what I liked to do, it was what has me here and what keeps me up to now ”.
“My first competition was in 2004, I entered at the end of 2003 and I didn’t look good and I said ‘I’m very bad, I didn’t make it into the top ten’, but my coach said I was fine, that it was my first competition.”
“Besides, I was agitated because it was here in Sonora and he had told me that in the Olympics they go to other states, but the other Olympics in Tlaxcala, I think, I don’t remember and that was my motivation, to go out, get to know other states,” he said. .
Important challenges
After setting the goal of reaching the top in order to know the world and continue to grow in a discipline that little by little made her fall in love more, her first calls for the national team arrived.
“Around 2009, I was already confirmed in the (national) Olympics, I had my gold medals, Nationals and in the Olympiad that year in Tijuana, I entered the youth team and by then I was not training well, I was training my three hours, I was going to shoot little arrows and talk, then when they tell me that I am going to represent Mexico, I thought ‘United States’ and ‘no, no, no, Italy, we are going to go to the Youth Cup’ and when I went to there I was in third place ”.
“There was the awakening, when I said pulling, training badly, I’m here (I was 13-14 years old), imagine if he will train well, so coming back I said to Miguel ‘I want to train well, now yes, as for the national team’, then for the following year I entered the Senior National Team and I was super excited, because I was with those on TV with those in Beijing (2008 Olympic Games) ”, he added.
In the same way, Valencia Trujillo was part of that growth that archery began to have in our country, always thanks to the results that began to have worldwide.
“From that year on, archery grew with the results, now there was a women’s team, before it was only the two of them (Aída Román and Mariana Avitia) with me they could make the complete team and they could really train as such and this is how the stories of London began, their medals, this is how we got to what it is today, this is how the path was, ”said the medalist at Tokyo 2020.
Future archers
Finally, the Hermosillo sent a message to all those young people who were interested in this discipline when they saw the performances of the archers in the Olympic Games.
Valencia said she was excited to be part of this generation that serves as an inspiration for future Sonoran and Mexican athletes.
“First you try it, there in the CUM is archery, if you are very curious you can go and ask, I want to see, I want to try, to know why I see it on TV and I love it, try it so that curiosity is removed, so that they can see what we do, it is different to practice than to see it ”.
“If normally when people see it they get excited, when you are shooting you get a little more excited, try where you are with someone who has a bow that is like that and allows them to shoot three arrows so they know what it is about” , he clarified.
In addition, he gave them his encouragement and asked that they do not give up if they have dreams and goals to fulfill, always giving the best of each one, trusting in their work.
“Have confidence in yourself, that’s what I always tell you, because that’s what worked for me, many times the worst critics are ourselves, we don’t give ourselves a chance of making any mistakes because we know we know how to do it, we are usually the worst critics ”.
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“I would tell them to lower it a little, not to be so hard, it is good to be, to look at your mistakes, but it is not so (good) to do it a lot because that starts to hurt in the long run, I tell you from experience, more that nothing, apart from focusing on your mistakes, focus on what you do well and your strengths and have a lot of confidence in your work, “he concluded.
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