Rena Wakama, the Head coach of Nigeria’s senior women’s basketball team, D’Tigress, has been named the Best Female Basketball Coach at the Paris 2024 Olympics tournament.
“Best coach of #Paris2024 Women’s Basketball, Rene Wakama, Nigeria,” a tweet on the X handle of the International Basketball Federation read on Sunday evening.
Wakama, 32, led the female basketball team to their first-ever Olympic quarterfinals with a 79-70 victory over Canada.
However, their Olympic run ended when they were defeated by the eventual champions, the United States, with a score of 88-74 in the women’s basketball quarterfinals
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Despite this setback, the team set an impressive record as the only African basketball team (men’s or women’s) to advance to the last 16 at the event.
Wakama is the first coach of the Nigerian National Female Basketball Team to win the women’s Afrobasket title since its inception in 1966.
D’Tigress triumphed over Senegal with an 84-74 victory in the final, securing Nigeria’s status as only the second country to win the title four consecutive times.
Indeed, she has entrenched her name in the history of Nigerian female basketball.
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