Ugonna Onyekwe

Ugonna Nnamdi Onyekwe (born July 14, 1979) is a British-Nigerian former professional basketball player.

[1] He played professionally from September 2003 through April 2011 before retiring from the sport to enter the business world.

[4] Before his junior year of high school, Onyekwe moved to Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, United States.

[4] He starred on Mercersburg Academy's basketball team for his final two years of prep school.

[4] Late in the season, in a very important match-up against Princeton, Onyekwe scored the game-sealing bucket with a 360-degree dunk.

During the Quakers' first-round game of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, he recorded 17 points and six rebounds against Illinois.