Ezinne Kalu starred for 5 seasons at Savannah State, main the ladies’s basketball group to the MEAC championship and the NCAA match in 2015.
She is going to return to Georgia almost a decade later, this time as an expert, because the WNBA’s Atlanta Dream introduced Wednesday they signed Kalu a seven-day hardship contract.
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Kalu performed for the Tigers from 2010-2015, scoring 2,119 factors and main the group to their solely MEAC match title and NCAA Division I match look earlier than returning to Division II and the SIAC.
She additionally represented Nigeria within the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Video games and the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, the place Nigeria grew to become the primary African nation to qualify for the quarterfinal spherical.
Kalu performed for the Dream of their common season finale towards the New York Liberty, turning into the primary HBCU participant to seem in a WNBA sport since Andrea Gardner of Howard performed for the Washington Mystics throughout the 2008 season.
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