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Sarah Ogoke
No. 8 – Ferroviário de Maputo
PositionShooting guard
LeagueFIBAACCW
Personal information
Born (1990-06-25) 25 June 1990 (age 34)
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican / Nigerian
Listed height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Career information
CollegeSouthern Polytechnic State (2014)
WNBA draft2014: undrafted
Medals
Women's basketball
Representing  Nigeria
African Games (All-Africa Games)
Silver medal – second place 2015 Brazzaville Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Maputo Team
AfroBasket
Gold medal – first place 2017 Mali
Gold medal – first place 2019 Senegal
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cameroon
Gold medal – first place 2023 Rwanda

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

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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

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Legend
  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

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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

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  1. ^ FIBA profile
  2. ^ 2017 Women's Afrobasket profile
  3. ^ a b Ogwo, Charles (19 August 2023). "Meet Sarah Ogoke, Nigerian amazon who combines basketball with medical career". Businessday NG. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Sarah Ogoke College Stats". Sports-Reference. Retrieved 11 April 2024.
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