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Mobolaji Akiode

Basketball player

Mobolaji Iyabode Akiode (born May 12, ) is an American-born former Nigerianwomen's basketball player.[1][2]

Early life

Born in New Jersey, her family relocated to Nigeria shortly thereafter. Akiode moved back to the United States when she was nine[3] and was raised in Maplewood, New Jersey.

She was bullied for her height, but excelled academically and athletically and led Columbia High School to the state championship[4] before graduating in [5] Akiode earned a scholarship to play college basketball at Fordham University. At Fordham, Akiode won all-conference honors in her senior year and was the eighth Fordham player to record 1, points and rebounds in her career.

She also earned a tryout with the WNBA's Detroit Shock following her collegiate career.[6]

Education

Akiode studied Accounting at Gabelli School of business, Fordham University, she graduated in [7] She obtained her Masters of Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business in [7][1]

College career

Akiode earned a scholarship to play college basketball at Fordham University.

At Fordham, Akiode won all-conference honors in her senior year and was the eighth Fordham player to record 1, points and rebounds in her career. She also earned a tryout with the WNBA's Detroit Shock following her collegiate career.[6] She was inducted into the Fordhams University basketball Hall of fame in [7]

Fordham statistics

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Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
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International career

Akiode was member of the Nigeria women's national basketball team at the Summer Olympics[9] and Commonwealth Games.

She graduated from Fordham with a degree in accounting. After graduation, she landed a job to work for ESPN.

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She moved back to Nigeria in to start a basketball camp.[4] In , she was named one of ESPNW's Impact [10]

Basketball camp

Akiode organizes an annual basketball camp called the Hope for Girls basketball camp which seeks to develop and mentor girls in the knowledge of basketball. She has created opportunities for women to play basketball and study outside of Nigeria.[11][2][12]

References

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  2. ^ ab"Mobolaji Akiode: How D'Tigress ignited my passion for Nigeria".

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  3. ^"Seven Questions with Mobolaji Akiode, Sports Activist for Women".
  4. ^ abHuckshorn, Kristin (April 4, ). "Nigerian basketball star gives back".

    Akiode biography College career [ edit ]. All rights reserved. The song gave her massive recognition, and she started singing right from childhood with relentless effort. Early life [ edit ].

    ESPN. Retrieved March 11,

  5. ^Delo, Cotton. "CHS '99 Grad Starts Foundation for Nigerian Girls Mobolaji Akiode, 27, recently started Hope4GirlsAfrica, a non-profit designed to increase young African women's participation in sports.", South Orange, NJ Patch, February 1, Accessed February 10, "'There's never a wrong time to do the right thing," said Akiode, 27, a graduate of Columbia High School, where she started playing basketball under Coach Johanna Wright, who bought her her first pair of basketball sneakers and with whom she still speaks constantly.

    Akiode came back to Maplewood for a two-week stretch, but she's currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, the country where she spent much of her childhood, though she lived in the U.S. for good starting in the early '90s."

  6. ^ abFordham's Mobolaji Akiode receives tryout with the WNBA's Detroit ShockArchived at 1 May
  7. ^ abc"Mobolaji Akiode () - Hall of Fame".

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  8. ^"NCAA Statistics". .

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  12. ^" Olympic women's basketball"(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on Retrieved retrieved March 10,
  13. ^" espnW Impact 25". Archived from the original on
  14. ^"Hope4Girls Africa empowers girls at basketball camp in Lag". .

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  15. ^"Smith: Hashtags not enough to help missing schoolgirls in Nigeria". . May 26,