American based Erica Ogwumike has pledged her international future to Nigeria’s D’Tigress (video)
American based basketball star Erica Ogwumike has pledged her international future to Nigeria’s senior basketball team D’Tigress.
Erica’s senior sisters play for the United States of America on the international level.
🇳🇬 x 🙏🏾 https://t.co/T4UZxuyX2Q
— Erica Ogwumike (@ericaogwumikee) May 5, 2020
Erica has two elder sisters in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) in Nneka and Chiney who both play for the Los Angeles Sparks.
Erica who is a 5’9” guard declared her intention on her official Twitter account and should be able to play for the reigning African champions D’Tigress at the basketball event at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo.
Erica was is 22-years-old, was born on 26 September 1997 played for Rice University and was recently drafted by the New York Liberty before her trade to Minnesota Lynx.
Watch video of her declaration to play for Nigeria
Watch when @Ogwumi13 pledged her international future to Nigeria in this interesting interview with @BBCAfrica
Video courtesy of @BBC pic.twitter.com/jp9TkzNWKP
— #NBBF (@nbbfonline) May 6, 2020
