Ugonna Onyekwe
| Personal information | |
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| Born |
July 14, 1979 Lagos, Nigeria |
| Nationality | British / Nigerian |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) |
| Listed weight | 228 lb (103 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school |
Mercersburg Academy (Mercersburg, Pennsylvania) |
| College | Penn (1999–2003) |
| NBA draft | 2003 / Undrafted |
| Playing career | 2003–2011 |
| Position | Power forward |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Ugonna Nnamdi Onyekwe (born July 14, 1979) is a British-Nigerian former professional basketball player. He played professionally from September 2003 through April 2011 before retiring from the sport to enter the business world. Onyekwe played college basketball at the University of Pennsylvania where he became just the second Ivy League player ever to be named the Ivy League Player of the Year two times (2002, 2003).
Onyekwe was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He spent his youth there until moving to London, England, where he spent the majority of his teenage years. Before his junior year of high school, Onyekwe moved to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He starred on Mercersburg Academy's basketball team for his final two years of prep school. At the start of the 1999–2000 school year he enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia; specifically, Onyekwe enrolled in their Wharton School of Business.
Onyekwe played for the Penn Quakers between 1999 and 2003. In his freshman season he was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year after averaging 11.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game; he was also named to the All-Ivy League Second Team. Late in the season, in a very important match-up against Princeton, Onyekwe scored the game-sealing bucket with a 360-degree dunk. That play led off SportsCenter's highlights the night it happened. During the Quakers' first-round game of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, he recorded 17 points and six rebounds against Illinois.
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