An Ohio high school track runner was disqualified for wearing her hijab during a race.

Cross country athlete Noor Abukaram ran while wearing a hijab for three years. On Saturday, the 16-year-old finished a race in Findlay, Ohio, at 22 minutes and 22 seconds, her fastest run ever. Unfortunately, the time won’t count because she was disqualified.

At the beginning of the race, officials checked each athletes’ attire and when Abukaram saw them talking with each other, she got worried.

“In the back of my mind, I was like, ‘Are they going to say something about my hijab? Or about my uniform because it is different?’” she recalled to WTOL.

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Instead, another girl was ordered to change her shorts and the race proceeded after the runner returned. Abukaram didn’t find out about the issue with her hijab until after the race when her name didn’t appear on the scoring board.

“My heart dropped. I felt like something horrible happened to me, something that I always thought could happen, but never has happened,” she said. “I think I was mostly embarrassed, because like I never expected that to happen.”

Abukaram was disqualified because the Ohio High School Athletic Association requires a waiver from students who want to wear a head covering for religious reasons. Abukaram and her family said they didn’t know about the requirement, according to The Toledo Blade.