Sarah Ogoke
| No. 8 – Ferroviário de Maputo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Shooting guard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | FIBAACCW | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1990 The Bronx, New York, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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]
College career statistics
[edit]| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
| APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
| TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
College
[edit]| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008–09 | Pittsburgh | 22 | - | - | 33.3 | 30.0 | 60.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.4 | 1.4 |
| 2009–10 | Pittsburgh | 28 | 2 | 9.7 | 22.0 | 12.5 | 33.3 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
| Career | 50 | 2 | 8.2 | 26.5 | 19.2 | 47.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.2 | |
| Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[4] | |||||||||||||
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.
- ^ "Sarah Ogoke College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- Sarah Ogoke at FIBA (also at FIBA Archive)
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
- 21st-century African-American sportswomen
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Nigeria women's national basketball team players