[2] Helped by John Jacques, a basketball player from Delco, North Carolina who was playing at Georgetown,[4] Aw moved to the United States in 1993, being hosted by Gary Battle, a teacher and basketball coach at East Columbus High School in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina.

[6] He averaged 4.5 points and 3 rebounds,[9] playing 18.8 minutes per game, and participated in the 1996 NCAA tournament, during which Georgetown reached the Elite Eight, where they lost to UMass.

In 2000 he played for Gimnasia La Plata in the Torneo Nacional de Ascenso, the second tier of Argentine basketball, and averaged 19.8 points and 6.2 rebounds per game.

In 2001 he joined Regatas San Nicolás, another LNB team, and he appeared in 32 league games, averaging 17.3 points and 5.4 rebounds in 34.8 minutes of playing time.

[16] In early 2004 he left to join Chilean club Universidad Católica,[17] participating in the 2004 Liga Sudamericana de Básquetbol during which he averaged 22.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game.

[20] He then signed for Estudiantes de Olavarría in late December 2004, and played 9 games in Argentina (18.3 points, 5.6 rebounds) before leaving the team in February 2005.

[21] Later that year he signed for Fuerza Guinda de Nogales, a Mexican team that participated in the CIBACOPA, averaging 22.7 points per game.

[1] Aw then spent the 2007–08 LNBP season with Pioneros de Quintana Roo, with which he also played in the 2008–09 FIBA Americas League (14.5 points, 5.5 rebounds per game).

With the Senegalese national team, Aw was part of the squad that won the gold medal at the 1997 FIBA Africa Championship.