The Nigeria Basketball Federation has engaged Coach Rena Wakama, as Head Coach for the Team Nigeria Women’s Basketball team for two years. The Federation made the announcement in a tweet on Friday.
D’Tigress have been without a Head Coach since Otis Hughley resigned from his role with the five-time Afrobasket champions in 2022. Wakama, who hails from Rivers State, is a former national team player and currently, an Assistant Coach at Stony Brooks University in the US.
Wakama was a four-year letterman at the University of Western Carolina and also played professional Basketball in the United Kingdom. She received a bachelor’s degree in ‘Therapeutic Recreation’ from Western Carolina in 2014 and an MBA from Manhattan in 2019.
Wakama is in her fourth year as an Assistant Coach at Manhattan College after serving for two years as Director of Women’s Basketball Operations. Under her mentorship, the Jaspers earned a programme-high 3.61 team GPA and placed fifth nationally, in Community Service hours for all of Division I Women’s Basketball.
Wakama helped develop Davis and Brazil Harvey-Carr to earn post-season All-MAAC honours, during the 2021/22 season.
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