1. Ogonna Nnamani was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup in 2004 as the nation's top female athlete across all NCAA sports and is regarded as one of the best players in Stanford University's history with a career record of 2,450 kills, for which she entered the Stanford Hall of Fame in 2015.
Ogonna Nnamani led Stanford University to three NCAA championship matches, winning the national title in 2001 and 2004.
Ogonna Nnamani has led her professional teams to national league titles in 2007 and 2010, and a runner-up finish in 2006.
Ogonna Nnamani was born in Bloomington, Illinois, and attended University High School in Normal, Illinois, where she played basketball.
Ogonna Nnamani has a younger sister, Nji, who played volleyball alongside her at Stanford University and married professional track athlete Russell Wolf Brown.
Ogonna Nnamani competed at Rice University and the University of Pennsylvania.
Ogonna Nnamani was considered the top high school recruit for her class, as she was recruited by major universities in 49 of the 50 US States and won the Gatorade National Player of the Year award as a senior in high school.
Ogonna Nnamani is the oldest child of Uzo and Chika Nnamani.
Ogonna Nnamani's parents emigrated to the United States from Nigeria in pursuit of better educational opportunities.
Ogonna Nnamani's father, Chika Nnamani, is an adjunct professor in Politics and Government and the former Assistant Vice President and Director of Housing at Illinois State University and her mother, Uzo, is an artist and a teacher.
In 2009 Ogonna Nnamani signed a contract to play with VK Prostejov for her 2010 professional season.
Ogonna Nnamani received her Doctorate in Medicine from University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in 2020 where she was named a Regent Scholar and graduated with Alpha Omega Alpha honors.
Mike and Ogonna Nnamani have a daughter, Anya, and resided in San Francisco, California for 10 years.
Ogonna Nnamani is known to be a talented orator and is a motivational speaker for organizations such as Nike, Gatorade, the Women's Sports Foundation, Honda, and the National Football Foundation.
Ogonna Nnamani was a guest lecturer with Alex Rodriguez and Jeffrey K Lee for several courses taught by Allison Kluger at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ogonna Nnamani was named the Pac-10, Volleyball Magazine, and AVCA Pacific Region Freshman of the Year.
Ogonna Nnamani averaged 4.10 kills, 1.14 digs, 0.67 blocks and 4.59 points per game.
Ogonna Nnamani was named a First Team All-American as well as a Honda Sports Award nominee for volleyball.
Ogonna Nnamani set a Stanford single-season kills record with 627.
Ogonna Nnamani led Stanford to an unexpected NCAA championship as Stanford was not favored to win as the NCAA tournament's overall 11th seed, but Ogonna Nnamani set an NCAA tournament record for kills en route to a win over number 4 seed Minnesota in the final at Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California.
Ogonna Nnamani graduated from Stanford with a degree in human biology.
Ogonna Nnamani joined the US national team in 2002 and went to the 2004 and the 2008 Olympics.
Ogonna Nnamani was the youngest player on the 2004 Olympic Team and the second youngest player on the 2008 Olympic Team.
Ogonna Nnamani made her international professional debut under the Puerto Rican LVSF league for the Pinkin club of Corozal.
Ogonna Nnamani joined fellow USA Olympian Robyn Ah Mow-Santos on the team.
Ogonna Nnamani helped Volero Zurich team win the Swiss Cup Final, the Championship League and placed fourth in the Indesit European Championship.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, Ogonna Nnamani played in both outside positions.
Ogonna Nnamani's play included a 17-point performance in a win that eliminated Poland on August 17,2008.