Sarah Ogoke Explained

Sarah Ogoke
Birth Date:1990 6, df=yes
Birth Place:The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Nationality:American / Nigerian
Height M:1.75
Position:Shooting guard
League:FIBAACCW
Team:Ferroviário de Maputo
Number:8
College:Southern Polytechnic State (2014)
Draft League:WNBA
Draft Year:2014

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

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.

College career statistics

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2008–09 | style="text-align:left;" | Pittsburgh|22||-||-||33.3||30.0||60.0||0.6||0.4||0.2||0.0||0.4||1.4|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2009–10| style="text-align:left;" | Pittsburgh|28||2||9.7||22.0||12.5||33.3||1.4||0.8||0.4||0.0||1.2||1.0|-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|50||2||8.2||26.5||19.2||47.4||1.0||0.6||0.3||0.0||0.8||1.2 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[4]

Notes and References

  1. https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Sarah_Ogoke/pid//_//players.html FIBA profile
  2. http://www.fiba.basketball/womensafrobasket/2017/Sarah-Ogoke 2017 Women's Afrobasket profile
  3. Web site: Ogwo . Charles . 2023-08-19 . Meet Sarah Ogoke, Nigerian amazon who combines basketball with medical career . 2024-02-15 . Businessday NG . en-US.
  4. Web site: Sarah Ogoke College Stats . . April 11, 2024.