Temi Fagbenle
No. 14 – Çukurova Basketbol | |
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Position | Forward |
League | Turkish Super League EuroCup Women |
Personal information | |
Born | Barnet, London | 8 September 1992
Nationality | Nigerian/British |
Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
Listed weight | 197 lb (89 kg) |
Career information | |
High school |
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College | |
WNBA draft | 2016 / Round: 3 / Pick: 35th overall |
Selected by the Minnesota Lynx | |
Playing career | 2017–present |
Career history | |
2017 | Minnesota Lynx |
2017–2019 | CCC Polkowice |
2019 | BOTAŞ |
2019–2020 | Perfumerías Avenida |
2020–2021 | Reyer Venezia |
2021–present | Çukurova Basketbol |
Career highlights and awards | |
Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá Olúwatóbilọ́ba Fagbenle is a British female basketball player for Çukurova Basketbol. She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Personal life[]
Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992 to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, and has eleven siblings, including actor O. T. Fagbenle, film producer Luti Fagbenle, and video producer Oladapo 'Daps' Fagbenle.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Her family moved to London, United Kingdom when she was aged 2 and she began playing basketball at the club.[8] When she was fifteen she returned to the United States to study at Blair Academy in New Jersey.[5] She attended Harvard University before transferring to the University of Southern California for her final year of NCAA basketball.[6] As of 2012 she was 1.93 metres (6 ft 4 in) tall and weighs 79.5 kilograms (175 lb).[4]
Basketball career[]
During her time at Blair Academy Fagbenle was voted on to the McDonald’s All American High School team.[5] She has represented Great Britain at the under-16, 18 and 20 levels and competed at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship held in Serbia.[6]
She was named in the British team for the women's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the under-20s.[9] She averaged 4.8 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1.2 blocks and 1 steal in 19.2 minutes per game. GB went 0-5 and failed to qualify from their group.[10]
Her selection for the Olympics came after a 12-month period in which she was unable to play for the Harvard Crimson women's basketball team due to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) declaring her ineligible.[6] Fagbenle had taken the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam whilst at school in the UK and NCAA rules say that an athlete must be enrolled in college within two years of sitting for the exam; Fagbenle took an additional year to graduate from high school because she repeated a year after moving to the United States.[11]
Harvard and Southern California statistics[]
Source[12]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2012-13 | Harvard | 29 | 358 | 57.8% | 66.7% | 68.4% | 7.7 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 12.3 |
2013-14 | Harvard | 30 | 391 | 53.9% | 28.6% | 70.5% | 9.3 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 1.4 | 13.0 |
2014-15 | Harvard | 28 | 403 | 48.1% | 22.2% | 77.3% | 10.4 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 14.4 |
2015-16 | Southern California | 32 | 436 | 51.4% | 25.0% | 70.5% | 8.7 | 1.3 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 13.6 |
Career | 119 | 1588 | 52.5% | 11.1% | 72.2% | 6.8 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 13.3 |
References[]
- ^ "Temi Fagbenle". WNBA.com - Official Site of the WNBA.
- ^ Fagbenle, Temi (July 7, 2012). "Passions: Basketball star loves to tread the boards" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ^ "Temi Fagbenle has many ambitions, and one is to play for the Lynx". Star Tribune.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Temi Fagbenle". BBC Sport. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Gallagher, Brendan (31 May 2012). "London 2012 Olympics: Temi Fagbenle to take centre stage for British team after being fast-tracked from juniors". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d McCluskey, Jack (25 July 2012). "Temi Fagbenle on English holiday". ESPN Boston. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ Henson, Mike (4 February 2020). "Haringey, Harvard & Hollywood: The fabulous Temi Fagbenle and family". BBC Sport. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "The fabulous Miss Fagbenle & family". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
- ^ Telegraph Staff (22 June 2012). "London 2012 Olympics: Temi Fagbenle in Team GB women's basketball squad". The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ "Temi Fagbenle's profile - 2012 Olympic Women". FIBA. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ Nocera, Joe (27 January 2012). "Et Tu, Harvard?". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2017-10-15.
External links[]
- Living people
- 1992 births
- American emigrants to England
- American women's basketball players
- Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Black British sportspeople
- Blair Academy alumni
- Centers (basketball)
- English people of Nigerian descent
- English people of Yoruba descent
- English women's basketball players
- Harvard Crimson women's basketball players
- McDonald's High School All-Americans
- Minnesota Lynx draft picks
- Minnesota Lynx players
- Olympic basketball players of Great Britain
- Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)
- Sportspeople from Baltimore
- USC Trojans women's basketball players
- Yoruba sportspeople
- American sportspeople of Nigerian descent
- American people of Yoruba descent
- Sportspeople from London