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Amy Nnenna Okonkwo (born 26 August 1996) is a basketball player who plays as a forward for Ligue Féminine de Basketball club Bourges. Born in the United States, she represents Nigeria at international level.[2][3][4][5]
| No. 8 – Bourges | |||||||||||||||
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| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
| League | Ligue Féminine de Basketball | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 August 1996 Fontana, California, U.S.[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American / Nigerian | ||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 1.88[1] m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||||||||
| High school | Etiwanda Eagles | ||||||||||||||
| College | USC Trojans (2014–2015) TCU Horned Frogs (2016–2019) | ||||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 2020: undrafted | ||||||||||||||
| Playing career | 2020–present | ||||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Saint-Amand-les-Eaux | ||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Landerneau | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | Bourges | ||||||||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Amy spent three seasons in Spain before joining the French women's basketball league in 2022 with the team in Saint-Amand. During her first season in France, she averaged 12 points and 6 rebounds per game. After playing in Israel and then Mexico, Amy Okonkwo joined Landerneau Bretagne Basket in 2023. She finished as her team's top scorer, averaging 17 points and 7 rebounds per game, and helped keep the Breton club in the league.[6][7]
Amy represented Nigeria at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, where she averaged 2.7 point and 1 rebound.[8] She also participated in the 2021 Afrobasket, where she won gold with the team and averaged 9.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 0.4 assists.[9] she also represented nigeria in 2023 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket, hosted in Kigali Rwanda where she was named the most valuable player. Okonkwo also headlined the All-Star Tournament team of 2023 alongside Cierra Dillard (Senegal), Jannon Otto (Uganda]), Sika Kone (Mali) and Tamara Seda (Mozambique). she became the only Nigerian to register two double-double.[10]
| GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game | RPG | Rebounds per game |
| APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game | BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game |
| TO | Turnovers per game | FG% | Field-goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field-goal percentage | FT% | Free-throw percentage |
| Bold | Career best | ° | League leader |
College
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TO | PPG |
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| 2014–15 | USC | 27 | 1 | 7.1 | 51.5 | 0.0 | 60.6 | 2.1 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 3.3 |
| 2015–16 | Sat out due to NCAA Transfer Rules | ||||||||||||
| 2016–17 | TCU | 30 | 14 | 18.3 | 49.8 | 34.5 | 78.4 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 10.2 |
| 2017–18 | TCU | 36 | 0 | 19.8 | 50.1 | 38.9 | 88.1 | 5.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 14.4 |
| 2018–19 | TCU | 35 | 24 | 24.8 | 44.9 | 36.7 | 86.9 | 6.7 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 2.1 | 14.3 |
| Career | 128 | 39 | 18.1 | 48.2 | 36.2 | 82.6 | 5.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 11.0 | |
| Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[11] | |||||||||||||
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