Oluoma Nnamaka
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| Player information | ||
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| birthday | September 14, 1978 | |
| place of birth | Uppsala , Sweden | |
| size | 200 cm | |
| position | Forward | |
| college | Marquette University (1998-2002) | |
| Clubs as active | ||
| 2002-2005 |
 Telekom Baskets Bonn
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| 2005-2006 |
 Orlandina Basket
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| 2006-2010 |
Basket Club Ferrara
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| 2010–2012 |
Junior Casale Monferrato
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| 2012-2017 |
 Uppsala Basket
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| National team | ||
| 1998-2008 |
Sweden
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115 games |
Oluoma Onyeabor Somawina Nnamaka (born September 14, 1978 in Uppsala ) is a former Swedish basketball player .
Career
society
Nnamaka moved from his native Sweden to the United States in 1998 to continue his basketball education. He did that from 1998 to 2002 at Marquette University in Milwaukee . In his senior season (2001/02) with the Golden Eagles in the US college league, he averaged 7.8 points and 4.3 rebounds per game.
Nnamaka began his professional career in Germany with Telekom Baskets Bonn . In Bonn Nnamaka quickly became a crowd favorite, whose qualities lay particularly in defense. On January 16, 2004 Nnamaka achieved a new record in the basketball league with 7 blocks in one game . In the 2004/05 season, Nnamaka had his best playing time for Bonn, averaging 9.9 points and 5.0 rebounds per game. At the end of the season, Telekom Baskets and Nnamaka could not agree on a further collaboration.
For the 2005/06 season, Nnamaka therefore moved to Italy for the first division club Orlandina Basket . In the following four seasons Nnamaka joined the Italian second division Basket Club Ferrara , with whom he celebrated promotion to Serie A in 2008 . Ferrara then played in the first division until the end of the 2009/10 season. From 2010 to 2012 Nnamaka went again for an Italian second division club, namely Junior Casale Monferrato . Even with this team, Nnamaka made it to the top division, but they got down again in the following season.
After a disappointing sporting season, Nnamaka decided to return home. From 2012 he ran for Uppsala Basket in the Swedish basket league . Following the 2014/15 season, in which he and his team were Swedish runners-up, he announced the end of his competitive sports career. In January 2017 he returned to the field in Uppsala and took part again in nine top division matches.
National team
Nnamaka ran from 1998 to 2008 for the Swedish national basketball team . In a total of 115 games for the men's national team, he scored 896 points (7.8 points per game). The greatest success was participation in the 2003 European Basketball Championship in Sweden. In 2008, Nnamaka left the national team at her own request.
Others
Nnamaka, whose mother is Swedish and whose father is Nigerian, grew up in Uppsala in the Uppland province . Nnamaka's sister Chioma Nnamaka was also a successful basketball player.
Web links
- easyCredit BBL - Oluoma Nnamaka - player profile on the easyCredit Basketball-Bundesliga website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oluoma Nnamaka
- ↑ Swede strengthens Telekom Baskets. General-Anzeiger Bonn, August 6, 2002, accessed on March 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Baskets History # 6: Oluoma Nnamaka. Basketball.de, February 19, 2015, accessed on March 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Mathias Rutegård: Nnamaka tillbaka "En klasspelare". January 9, 2017, accessed September 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Basket profile lägger skorna på hyllan. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (Swedish).
- ↑ Oluoma Nnamaka är tillbaka. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
- ↑ SBL Mr. | Sida 1714008. Retrieved September 7, 2019 (sv-SE).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Nnamaka, Oluoma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nnamaka, Oluoma Onyeabor Somawina |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish basketball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Uppsala , Sweden |