Nigeria’s Female Basketball Coach, Rena Wakama has been named the best coach at the women’s basketball event in the just concluded 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Wakama is also the first Nigerian National Female Basketball Team coach to win the women’s Afrobasket title since it began in 1966.
She took the Nigerian female team D’ Tigress to the quarter-finals of Olympic Basketball for the first time in its history.
That feat made them the first-ever African team (men or women) to play at that stage of the event.
Nigeria would eventually bow out of the women’s basketball event losing 74-88 to the US
Also, joining the 32-year-old Wakama was D’Tigress’ point guard, Ezinne Kalu, who was included as one of the All-Second Team of the Olympics Women’s Basketball.
In 2023, she became the first female Head Coach of D’Tigress.
