Arike Ogunbowale, a basketball player in the United States, has again shown how Nigerians are making waves in the diaspora with her win this past weekend.
The US-born college basketball player of Nigerian descent twice made the shot of a lifetime to win her team, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, the NCAA championship.
Competing against the number 1-seeded Mississippi State Lady Bulldogs, Ogunbowale scored a 3-pointer with just 0.1 seconds to go!
Surprisingly, she had done it before, 48 hours earlier, when in the semifinal match against UConn, Ogunbowale hit a 2-pointer with just 1 second left, crushing the hopes of Kobe Bryant, a UConn fan who was present.
Born March 2, 1997, in the United States to Nigerian parents, Arike Ogunbowale is an American professional basketball player. Her father, Gregory, was a footballer in Nigeria and once served in the Nigerian Army before he relocated to the United States. Her mother, Yolanda, was her grade-school basketball coach. She is the youngest of three children.
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She finished the job, dashing the hopes of Mississippi by making that 3-pointer at the end of the game, and easily, she was named the tournament’s most outstanding player.
