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Arike Ogunbowale

American basketball player (born 1997)

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Born: March 2, 1997
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Birthplace: Milwaukee
Citizenship: United States
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Occupation: basketball player
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Education: Divine Savior Holy Angels High School(2011–2015)
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, University of Notre Dame(2015–2019)
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Height: 173 cm
Languages spoken, written or signed: English

Overview

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Arike Faulina “Goomba” Ogunbowale is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for the Mist of Unrivaled. She played college basketball for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, before being drafted by the Wings with the fifth overall pick of the 2019 WNBA draft. She was the Most Outstanding Player of Notre Dame's 2018 national title run, hitting game-winning baskets in both the semi-final and championship game. Arike Ogunbowale was named WNBA All Star MVP in 2021 and 2024.

Overview

WNBA stats — season by season

8 seasons · from AIDb's WNBA dataset

Season	Team	G	GS	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FG%	3P%	FT%	PPG	RPG	APG
2019	DAL	33	28	1,059	630	80	106	35	1	38.800	35.200	81.500	19.1	2.4	3.2
2020	DAL	22	22	748	501	61	76	35	0	41.300	33.600	85.600	22.8	2.8	3.5
2021	DAL	32	32	1,003	599	103	104	36	0	38.300	37.600	86.400	18.7	3.2	3.3
2022	DAL	30	30	941	590	98	108	45	3	40.000	35.200	79.800	19.7	3.3	3.6
2023	DAL	40	40	1,489	849	135	181	68	4	39.800	34.300	87.600	21.2	3.4	4.5
2024	DAL	38	38	1,465	845	173	195	81	11	38.300	34.600	92.100	22.2	4.6	5.1
2025	DAL	29	29	966	450	72	120	39	7	36.400	30.400	93.100	15.5	2.5	4.1
2026	DAL	44	44	1,321	672	134	145	44	3	40.600	32.500	89.100	15.3	3.0	3.3
Career		268	263	8,992	5,136	856	1,035	383	29	.392	.343	.870	19.2	3.2	3.9

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Life at a glance

Positions, education, employers and awards over time

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Appears in

1 linked to Arike Ogunbowale in Wikidata

DDancing with the Stars, season 262018 · season of American television series

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Sex or gender: female
Member of sports team: Dallas Wings(since 2019) sport number: 24
Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball(2015–2019) sport number: 24
Ethnic group: Nigerian Americans
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African Americans
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Awards: NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player(2018) follows: A'ja Wilson · followed by: Chloe Jackson
ACC Athlete of the Year(2018) followed by: Ashley Hoffman
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Sport: basketball
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Country for sport: United States
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Sibling: Dare Ogunbowale
Drafted by: Dallas Wings(2019)
Mass: 165 lb
Position played on team / speciality: point guard
Participant in: 2019 FIBA Women's AmeriCup
2018 NCAA Division I women's basketball championship game
Start of work period: 2019
Social media followers: 43,775(February 4, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 347439018
41,165(February 28, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 347439018
35,221(January 5, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 347439018
32,855(April 19, 2020) x (twitter) numeric user id: 347439018
League: Women's National Basketball Association
NCAA Division I women's basketball
Given name: Arike

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