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PEPPERDINE 2022-23: Averaged 9.3 points and a team-best 6.5 rebounds in 19.7 minutes per game during her final season in Malibu ... Also ranked second on the team with 23 blocks and 10th in the West Coast Conference with 0.8 blocks per game ... Started in 20 of the 28 games in which she appeared ... Led the team with five double-doubles ... Tied her career high with three steals against Cal State Bakersfield (12/7) ... Had back-to-back double-doubles with a 12-point, 12-rebound effort against Saint Mary's (1/7), then a 10-point, 11-rebound outing against San Diego (1/12) ... Scored 13 points and added 10 rebounds against the eventual WCC Champion Portland (1/26) ... Added 12 points and 12 rebounds against Gonzaga two days later (1/28) ... Tied her career-high with 19 points and added a career-high 14 rebounds against Santa Clara on Senior Night (2/25). 

PEPPERDINE 2021-22: Had a stellar redshirt junior season, appearing in 23 games and making 21 starts … Averaged 7.5 points per game, which was tied for fourth on the squad … Was the leading rebounder on the squad, averaging 6.3 a game, which ranked eighth in the WCC … Led the team in blocked shots with 40 (1.7 per game), which ranked third in the WCC … The 1.7 blocks per game ranked ninth on the Pepperdine single-season list … Had 28 blocked shots in WCC play (2.2 per game), which also ranked tied for sixth and fifth, respectively, on Pepperdine’s single-season charts … Scored eight times in double-figures and had three games with rebounds in double-digits … Had first career double-double vs. Saint Mary’s (1/31) with a career-high 19 points and 10 rebounds … Had a career-high 13 rebounds vs. Pacific (2/15) … Had two games with a career-high five blocks (at California Baptist on 12/2 and at LMU on 2/3) … Nabbed a career-high three steals vs. LMU (1/25).

PEPPERDINE 2020-21: Sat out her first season with the Waves.
 
TEXAS CHRISTIAN: Spent her first two years at Texas Christian University ... Saw action in 28 games for the Horned Frogs as a 2019-20 redshirt freshman ... Averaged 1.6 points and 1.9 rebounds, while playing in 5.6 minutes per game ... Had season highs of eight points and six rebounds in an SEC/Big 12 Challenge win over Auburn (12/7) ... Had two steals in win over Kansas (1/12) ... Redshirted her first season at TCU in 2018-19.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Rosary Academy, located in Fullerton, Calif., in 2018 ... Rated a three-star prospect by Prospects Nation and ESPN ... Ranked #18 at her position nationally by ESPN ... CIF Southern Section Division 2AA Player of the Year after junior season and was All-Southern Section after senior season ... Orange County Register All-County first team after senior season and All-County third team after junior season ... CIF Division 2 John Wooden Award and MaxPreps Division III All-State honors as a junior ... Averaged 13.4 points, 16.5 rebounds and 6.8 blocks per game as a senior ... Averaged 10.6 points per game as a junior ... Led Rosary Academy to CIF Division III championship as a junior after winning the CIF Southern Section Division 2AA title ... Advanced to CIF-SS Division I second round as a senior ... Played in the North-South Orange County All-Star Game following senior season ... Trinity League Champion in the 100 meters (11.95) and 200 meters (24.92) on the track as a sophomore.
 
CLUB: Played for West Coast Premier Black.
 
PERSONAL: Majoring in sociology ... Daughter of Helen Onyeali and Beziat Obinma ... Sister to Charles, Maxwell and Vincent ... Chose Pepperdine because “the coaching staff is filled with people who care about you as a person rather than just a basketball player. We are in the process of building a new culture, and I want to be a part of that journey. The word family is not something you can say about every program, but with our program, that is the best way to describe my new home.”
 
FAVORITES: Enjoys doing nails, make up, listening to podcasts and singing ... Favorites include Nneka Ogwumike (pro basketball player), Los Angeles Sparks (pro basketball team), Chop Wood Carry Water (book), To All the Boys I Loved Before (movie), The Circle (TV show), Bino Riduz and Blsxt (musical artists), Chipotle (food) and volleyball (sport besides basketball).