OKOYE Monica

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
9	Women	2018	Santa Cruz de Tenerife, ESP

Athlete, Office Worker

Fujitsu Red Wave [Japan] since 2019

Burke Toews [club], CAN; Tom Hovasse [national], USA

Power forward (sports.jp.fujitsu.com, 03 Jul 2021)

Her older brother Louis Okoye has played baseball for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Nippon Professional Baseball [NPB] in Japan. (rakuteneagles.jp, 05 Jul 2021; the-ans.jp, 02 Jul 2021)

Women's Japan Basketball League [JPN] (sports.jp.fujitsu.com, 03 Jul 2021)

She took up the sport in grade six of primary school in Higashimurayama, Japan. (city.higashimurayama.tokyo.jp, 07 Feb 2020; bbspirits.com, 25 Oct 2019)

She was involved in hula dance when she was younger. However, she was asked to participate in basketball competition due to a shortage of players, and was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] at the tournament. "My mother asked me which one I preferred between basketball and hula dance, I chose hula dance without hesitation. I didn't really like playing sports. However, the following day my mother contacted the hula dance class and said that I would quit. That's how I began the sport." (the-ans.jp, 02 Jul 2021)

Her father, and her older brother Louis Okoye. (the-ans.jp, 02 Jul 2021)