Sarah Ogoke
| No. 8 – Ferroviário de Maputo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | FIBAACCW | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1990 The Bronx, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American / Nigerian | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Career information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| College | Southern Polytechnic State (2014) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 2014: undrafted | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sarah Ogoke (born 25 June 1990) is a Nigerian-American basketball player for Ferroviário de Maputo and the Nigerian national team.[1]
She participated at the 2017 Women's Afrobasket and 2019 Women's Afrobasket .[2] Ogoke was also a member of Nigeria's female basketball team, D'tigress, at the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Personal life[edit]
Ogoke was born in New York to Nigerian parents, Bentley Ogoke and Edith Ogure-Ogoke.[3] She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Premedicine from the Southern Polytechnic State University, Georgia.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ FIBA profile
- ^ 2017 Women's Afrobasket profile
- ^ a b Ogwo, Charles (19 August 2023). "Meet Sarah Ogoke, Nigerian amazon who combines basketball with medical career". Businessday NG. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
External links[edit]
- Sarah Ogoke at FIBA
Categories:
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Nigerian women's basketball players
- Shooting guards
- Competitors at the 2011 All-Africa Games
- African Games bronze medalists for Nigeria
- African Games medalists in basketball
- African Games silver medalists for Nigeria
- Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Angola
- Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Portugal
- Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Mozambique
- Nigerian expatriate basketball people in Spain
- Basketball players from the Bronx
- American women's basketball players
- Southern Polytechnic State University
- American expatriate basketball people in Angola
- American expatriate basketball people in Portugal
- American expatriate basketball people in Mozambique
- American expatriate basketball people in Spain
- American basketball players of Nigerian descent
- Nigerian people of African-American descent
- American emigrants to Nigeria
- 21st-century African-American sportspeople
- African-American sportswomen
- Nigeria women's national basketball team players