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Nigeria Basketball
- Made her international debut for Nigeria at the 2025 FIBA U19 World Cup in Brno, Czechia
- Led the team in both scoring and rebounding, averaging 12.1 points and 7.0 rebounds in seven games
- Started the group phase with 25 points on 8-of-8 shooting in 21 minutes against China
- Finished with three consecutive double-digit scoring efforts in classification games against Argentina (17), Korea (18) and China (12)
- Participated in the 2023 USA Women’s U16 National Team Trials with USA Basketball
Prior to Stanford
- A 2025 graduate of Lyons Township High School in La Grange, Ill.
- A four-star talent, rated as the No. 85 player in the country according to ESPN HoopGurlz
- Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) All-State Class 4A first team (2025)
- IBCA All-State Class 4A third team (2024)
- Finished her prep career third in school history with 1,449 points
- Averaged 21 points and 6.9 rebounds per game as a senior for the Lions, which won regionals and posted a program-best 31-3 overall record
- Had eight double-doubles and set a single-season school record with 713 points
- Scored a single-game school record 40 against Prospect on Dec. 26
- As a junior, averaged 15.9 points and 8.4 rebounds
- Averaged 11.2 points and 6.7 rebounds as a sophomore after being promoted to varsity midway through her freshman year
- Also was was three-year soccer goalie and served as a team manager during her senior spring while she made her debut in track & field
Personal
- Born in La Grange, Ill.
- Parents are Ngozi and Emeka Ezike
- Both are doctors
- Mother, Ngozi, is currently the president and CEO of Sinai Chicago and was director of the Illinois Department of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Was the second woman and the first Black woman appointed to lead the nearly 150-year old state agency
- Graduate of Harvard (chemistry) and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine
- Mother, Ngozi, is currently the president and CEO of Sinai Chicago and was director of the Illinois Department of Public Health during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Both are doctors
- Father is a family practice physician with the Cook County Health & Hospitals System
- Has one older brother, Emeka, one older sister, Adaora, and one younger sister, Chika
- Aunt, Ezinwa Ogbunamiri, is a Stanford graduate, class of 1997