23 Facts About Jesse Iwuji

Jesse Iwuji competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No 91 Chevrolet SS for DGM Racing with Jesse Iwuji Motorsports.

Jesse Iwuji graduated from the academy in 2010 and entered the United States Navy as a surface warfare officer, in which he served on the Mine Countermeasures ship Exultant and USS Comstock.

Jesse Iwuji attended Hebron High School, where he was a letterman twice in football and three times in track.

Jesse Iwuji formally enrolled at the Academy on June 30,2005.

Jesse Iwuji played on special teams during his freshman year in 2006 before starting two games at safety in 2007, but missed six games during the latter due to ankle injury.

Jesse Iwuji was a backup to Kwesi Mitchell in 2009, though he saw action at strong safety in the season opener against the Ohio State Buckeyes due to Emmett Merchant's injury.

Jesse Iwuji graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science degree and became a surface warfare officer.

Jesse Iwuji worked in mine countermeasures with Mine Countermeasures Crew Exultant and was deployed to Bahrain in 2012.

Jesse Iwuji was later deployed on the USS Comstock, a ship whose name would later appear on a NASCAR Xfinity Series car when it was featured on Darrell Wallace Jr.

In 2014, Jesse Iwuji tested a stock car for Performance P-1 Motorsports at Irwindale Speedway.

Jesse Iwuji first competed in the Whelen All-American Series, finishing 15th in his debut.

Jesse Iwuji later ran the race at Meridian Speedway, finishing 23rd after a crash.

Jesse Iwuji recorded a best finish of tenth at Orange Show Speedway.

Jesse Iwuji finished the season tenth in the final point standings and sixth the rookie standings.

In February 2018, Jesse Iwuji tested an ARCA Racing Series car for PMG at Daytona International Speedway in preparation for his series debut in the Lucas Oil 200.

Jesse Iwuji returned to Reaume Brothers Racing and the Truck Series in 2019, driving the No 34 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Jesse Iwuji returned to the Reaume team and the Truck Series for the third year in a row in 2020.

Jesse Iwuji made starts at Charlotte Motor Speedway and Pocono Raceway, finishing 39th and 28th, respectively, both of which came in the team's No 33.

Jesse Iwuji returned to RBR in 2021 for his fourth part-time season with the team.

Jesse Iwuji would manage to get a one-off Xfinity start driving the No 74 car from Mike Harmon Racing, after the driver for the No 74, Bayley Currey, had to be replaced unexpectedly.

Jesse Iwuji is still the primary driver for the 74, we have no intentions of changing that, he is a huge part of this team.

Jesse Iwuji is of Igbo descent, an ethnic group of people in Nigeria.

Jesse Iwuji is involved in various philanthropic and military-related activities.