Nigeria’s winning captain at this year’s African Women’s Senior Basketball Championship (AfroBasket 2025), Amy Okonkwo still has her eyes fixed on a club career in the United States of America as well as playing at the 2028 Olympic Games.
Sports247 reports that Okonkwo missed out on USA’s Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft in 2020, despite entering the scales with great grades that she picked during collegiate games.
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She was energetic as an undergraduate with USC Trojans and TCU Horned Frogs, but had to settle for quickfire deals in the lowly basketball leagues of Mexico, Israel and Spain, before finding her way to her present base in France.
After starring for Saint Armand and Lauderneau in the French lower ranks, Okonkwo eventually found her way to Bourges, where she is now making waves and is set to feature at the 2026 Euro Cup in Turkey.
However, the 28-year-old forward, who was born on August 26, 1996 in Fontana, Carlifonia, USA, is looking ahead to greater spots of action for club and country, even as she basks in the euphoria of her recent third AfroBasket title and second award as most valuable player of the elite continental championship.
Okonkwo declared, “I’m so grateful to be able to call myself a three-time AfroBasket champion and a two-time MVP. Now, I’m looking forward to, hopefully, another Olympics, and to play as many more games as my body can carry me.”
The 6-feet-2-inches tall skipper also spoke about her target of returning to the country of her birth to wind down across the twilight of her career in the USA’s top-flight ladies league, WNBA.
She added, “I still have hopes for an NWBA opportunity, because I want to play at the highest level whenever it’s possible.
“I’ve played in the Euro League and, next year, I’ll be playing the Euro Cup in Turkey. I’m just following where the game is taking me.”
Okonkwo concluded with a bold declaration that she is capable of hitting more top grades in high profile competitions, and stressed: “I still want to play at the highest level possible, giving the best that I can.”
