{{short description|Nigerian basketball player (born 1993)}} {{Use Nigerian English|date=July 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Promise Amukamara | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1993|6|22|df=y}} | birth_place = [[New Jersey]], U.S. | nationality = American / Nigerian | height_m = 1.75 | weight_kg = | position = [[Point guard]] | league = [[Ligue Féminine de Basketball|LFB]] | team = Charnay BB | number = 10 | high_school = [[Apollo High School (Arizona)|Apollo]] ([[Glendale, Arizona]]) | college = [[Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball|Arizona State]] (2011–2015) | draft_league = WNBA | draft_year = 2015 | draft_round = 3 | draft_pick = 36 | draft_team = [[Phoenix Mercury]] | career_start = | career_end = | highlights = * [[List of All-Pac-12 Conference women's basketball teams|All Pac-12]] (2015) * 2× Pac-12 All-Defensive Team (2014, 2015) |medaltemplates= {{MedalCompetition|[[AfroBasket Women|AfroBasket]]}} {{MedalGold|[[2019 Women's Afrobasket|2019 Senegal]]|}} {{MedalGold|[[2021 Women's Afrobasket|2021 Cameroon]]|}} {{MedalGold|[[2025 Women's Afrobasket|2025 Ivory Coast]]|}} }} '''Promise Amukamara''' {{Audio|LL-Q33578 (ibo)-Obefelix-Promise Amukamara.wav|Listen|help=no}}(born 22 June 1993) is a [[basketball]] player who plays as a [[point guard]] for [[Ligue Féminine de Basketball]] club [[Charnay Basket Bourgogne Sud|Charnay BB]]. Born in the United States, she represents [[Nigeria women's national basketball team|Nigeria]] at international level.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Eurobasket|title=Promise Amukamara Player Profile, Charnay Basket Bourgogne SUD, News, Stats - Eurobasket|url=https://www.eurobasket.com/index.aspx|access-date=2021-05-29|website=Eurobasket LLC}}</ref>
== Early life and education == Promise's height is 5 feet, 9 inches (175 cm).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Promise Amukamara - Player Profile |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/en/player/189170/Promise-Onyeka-Amukamara |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=FIBA.basketball |language=en}}</ref> She is a graduate of [[Arizona State University]].<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Hillman |first1=Jenna |last2=of 2021 |first2=ASU Class |title=Dribbling to Tokyo: Promise Amukamara Ready to Compete for Nigeria |url=https://thesundevils.com/news/2021/7/17/dribbling-to-tokyo-promise-amukamara-read-compete-for-nigeria.aspx |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Arizona State University Athletics |language=en}}</ref> She is also the younger sister of [[Super Bowl XLVI]] Champion, former [[New York Giants]] cornerback [[Prince Amukamara]].
== Career == Promise is a member of [[Nigeria women's national basketball team|Nigeria’s female basketball team]]. She was the point-guard of the team that played at the [[2020 Summer Olympics|2020 Olympic Games]] in Tokyo.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-10-13 |title=D'Tigress players lament marginalization, hijack of donations made to team |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/10/dtigress-players-lament-maginalization-hijack-of-donations-made-to-team/ |location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=2022-05-17 |newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2021-04-18 |title=D'Tigress will make Nigerians proud at Tokyo 2020 — Amukamara |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/04/dtigress-will-make-nigerians-proud-at-tokyo-2020-amukamara/ |location=Lagos, Nigeria|access-date=2022-05-17 |newspaper=[[Vanguard (Nigeria)|Vanguard]]|language=en-GB}}</ref> She also participated at the [[2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sarah OGOKE at the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup 2018 |url=http://www.fiba.basketball/womensbasketballworldcup/2018/player/Sarah-Ogoke |access-date=2021-05-29 |website=FIBA.basketball |language=en}}</ref> In 2024, she was a member of the Nigeria squad that made the Olympic quarterfinals before falling to the United States.
== Achievements ==
* 10 points per game at Tokyo, 2020<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Amukamara the baller that can keep D'Tigress on the road to Sydney? |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/womensbasketballworldcup/2022/qt/serbia/news/is-amukamara-the-baller-that-can-keep-d-tigress-on-the-road-to-sydney |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=FIBA.basketball |language=en}}</ref> * The first Arizona State University graduate women’s basketball player to make an Olympic team <ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Connors |first=Kaylee |date=2021-07-22 |title=ASU's Amukamara represents Nigeria in Tokyo Olympics |url=https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2021/07/22/promise-the-world-asus-amukamara-takes-international-stage-with-nigeria-in-olympics/ |access-date=2022-05-17 |website=Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |language=en-US}}</ref> * Member of the 2019 FIBA African Championship Gold Medal team that participated in the Pre-Olympic Qualifying Tournament<ref name=":0" /> * Arizona’s Gatorade Girls Basketball Player of the Year in 2011<ref name=":0" /> * The fastest 100 meters and 200 meters by a freshman in the high school<ref name=":0" />
==Career statistics== {{WNBA player statistics legend}}
=== College === {{WNBA player statistics start}} |- | style="text-align:left;" | 2011–12 | style="text-align:left;" | [[Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball|Arizona State]] |32||0||14.5||43.9||18.2||79.6||1.6||0.4||1.1||'''0.3''' ||'''0.7'''||4.2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | [[2012–13 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2012–13]] | style="text-align:left;" | [[Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball|Arizona State]] |31||31||27.8||38.5||20.0||'''82.8'''||'''4.1'''||1.7||'''1.9'''||0.1 ||1.6||8.0 |- | style="text-align:left;" | [[2013–14 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2013–14]] | style="text-align:left;" | [[2013–14 Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball team|Arizona State]] |33||31||24.0||44.1||20.8||62.0||2.3||1.6||1.6||0.1 ||1.3||6.9 |- | style="text-align:left;" | [[2014–15 NCAA Division I women's basketball season|2014–15]] | style="text-align:left;" | [[2014–15 Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball team|Arizona State]] |'''35'''||'''35'''||'''30.3'''||'''47.2'''||'''31.6'''||75.0||3.6||'''2.0'''||1.8||0.1 ||1.5||'''10.9''' |- | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | '''Career''' |131||97||24.2||43.7||23.4||74.3||2.9||1.5||1.6||0.1 ||1.3||7.6 |- class="sortbottom" |style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from [[Sports-Reference]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/Promise-Amukamara-1.html|title= Promise Amukamara College Stats|publisher=[[Sports-Reference]]|accessdate=July 7, 2024}}</ref> {{s-end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{FIBA|new_id=189170|old_id=92203}} * [https://thesundevils.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/promise-amukamara/2524 Arizona State Sun Devils bio] * {{Olympedia}} * {{Olympics.com}}
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