Sarah Ogoke
Sarah Chikaodinaka “Cheeks” Ogoke is a member of the Nigerian female national basketball team called D’Tigress. She is a 4-time Afrobasket champion with D’Tigress, winning the title in 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023. She also played at the 2018 FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup.
Sarah has played for Southern Polytechnic State University and the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, First Bank Basketball Club of Lagos (the best female basketball club in Nigeria and one of the best in Africa), Deepwater Basketball Club (also in Nigeria), Celta Vigo in Spain, Primeiro Agosto in Angola and Ferroviário of Mozambique with whom she won the FIBA African Women’s Champions Cup in 2019.
Sarah Ogoke was born in New York in 1990. Her father, Bentley Ogoke, is a medical doctor and her mother Edith Okure-Ogoke is a nurse. She is following in her parents’ footsteps and she has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Premedicine from the Southern Polytechnic State University, Mariett, Georgia. She is studying at the New York College Of Podiatric Medicine to become a podiatrician (foot/ankle doctor).
She divides her time between Nigeria, the United States and Mozambique. She has worked as a volunteer clinician at the JonBon Hospital in Imo State and has been involved in many training camps for youth in many parts of Nigeria.
Michelle Chinwendu Alozie
Michelle Alozie is a member of the Nigerian female national football team called the Super Falcons. She represented Nigeria at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
Alozie was born and raised in Apple Valley, California, to Nigerian parents from Imo State. She played for the Yale Bulldogs and Tennessee Volunteers at college level and for BIIK Kazygurt at professional level. She is currently playing for Houston Dash in the US National Women’s Soccer League.
She obtained a Bachelors Degree in Molecular Biology from Yale University and she works part-time as a cancer research technician at the Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.
Meet The Medical Professionals In Nigeria’s National Sports Teams – Sports – Nigeria (nairaland.com)