Amy Okonkwo Explained

Amy Okonkwo
Birth Date:1996 8, df=y
Birth Place:Fontana, California, U.S.[1]
Nationality:American / Nigerian
Height M:1.88
Weight Kg:66
Position:Forward
League:Ligue Féminine de Basketball
Team:Bourges
Number:8
High School:Etiwanda Eagles
College:USC Trojans (2014–2015)
TCU Horned Frogs (2016–2019)
Draft Year:2020
Career Start:2020
Years1:2016–2017
Years2:2021–2022
Years3:2022–2024
Years4:2024–
Team4:Bourges
Highlights:
  • Big 12 Sixth Player of the Year (2018)

Amy Nnenna Okonkwo (born 26 August 1996) is a basketball player who plays as a forward for Ligue Féminine de Basketball club Bourges. Born in the United States, she represents Nigeria at international level.[2] [3] [4] [5]

Professional career

Amy spent three seasons in Spain before joining the French women's basketball league in 2022 with the team in Saint-Amand. During her first season in France, she averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds per game. After playing in Israel and then Mexico, Amy Okonkwo joined Landerneau Bretagne Basket in 2023. She finished as her team's top scorer, averaging 17 points and 7 rebounds per game, and helped keep the Breton club in the league.[6] [7]

Nigerian National team career

Amy represented Nigeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she averaged 2.7 point and 1 rebound.[8] She also participated in the 2021 Afrobasket, where she won gold with the team and averaged 9.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 0.4 assists.[9] she also represented nigeria in 2023 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket, hosted in Kigali Rwanda where she was named the most valuable player. Okonkwo also headlined the All-Star Tournament team of 2023 alongside Cierra Dillard (Senegal), Jannon Otto (Uganda]), Sika Kone (Mali) and Tamara Seda (Mozambique). she became the only Nigerian to register two double-double.[10]

Career statistics

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2014–15| style="text-align:left;" | USC|27||1||7.1||51.5||0.0||60.6||2.1||0.2||0.3||0.1||0.3||3.3|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2015–16| style="text-align:center;" colspan="12" |Sat out due to NCAA Transfer Rules||-| style="text-align:left;" | 2016–17| style="text-align:left;" | TCU|30||14||18.3||49.8||34.5||78.4||5.5||1.0||1.1||0.3||1.9||10.2|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2017–18| style="text-align:left;" | TCU|36||0||19.8||50.1||38.9||88.1||5.8||0.9||0.8||0.4||1.8||14.4 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 2018–19| style="text-align:left;" | TCU|35||24||24.8||44.9||36.7||86.9||6.7||0.7||1.1||0.4||2.1||14.3|-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|128||39||18.1||48.2||36.2||82.6||5.2||0.8||0.8||0.3||1.6||11.0 |- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[11]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: OKONKWO Amy.
  2. Web site: Amy Okonkwo . 2022-03-25 . WNBA.com – Official Site of the WNBA . en.
  3. Web site: Proballers . Amy Okonkwo, Basketball Player . 2022-03-25 . Proballers . en.
  4. Web site: Amy Okonkwo . Basketball.eurobasket.com . 2 April 2022.
  5. Web site: 2024-05-31 . LFB : Amy Okonkwo passe de Landerneau à Bourges . 2024-05-31 . BasketEurope.com . fr.
  6. Web site: Amy Okonkwo rejoint le Tango Bourges Basket . 2024-05-31 . fr-FR.
  7. Web site: France . Centre . 2024-05-30 . Basket – Le Bourges Basket officialise l'arrivée d'Amy Okonkwo, une des meilleures marqueuses de Ligue féminine la saison dernière . 2024-05-31 . www.leberry.fr.
  8. Web site: Amy Okonkwo . fiba.basketball . 9 April 2022.
  9. Web site: Amy Okonkwo . fiba.basketball . 27 February 2022.
  10. Web site: amy . okonkwo . 2023-08-08 . AfroBasket MVP award thrills Okonkwo . 2024-01-12 . Punch Newspapers . en-US.
  11. Web site: Amy Okonkwo College Stats. Sports-Reference. April 11, 2024.