Celebrating Ndi-Igbo

  Paola Ogechi Egonu is an Italian volleyball player. She plays for Imoco Volley and is part of the Italy women's national volleyball team. She participated at the 2018 Montreux Volley Masters, 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship, and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. At club level she played for Club Italia in 2015. She was selected to play the Italian League All-Star game in 2017. In 2017 she moved to AGIL Novara. Ogechi was awarded the prize for Woman of the Year 2019 by D - la Repubblica delle donne, a weekly magazine of la Repubblica. Paola was one of the flagbearers of the Olympic Flag at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo. She was born at Cittadella, in Veneto, to Nigerian parents. Her father, Ambrose, is Igbo from Imo State and her mother, Eunice, from Benin City. Sources: Sources: Wikipedia, Tokyo 2020

  Barthélémy Chinenyeze is a French volleyball player, member of the France men's national volleyball team and Italian club Volley Callipo. He joined the French national team in 2017 and participated at the 2017 European Championship and the 2017 World Grand Champions Cup. He was a gold medalist of 2017 World League. Sources: Wikipedia, French Olympic Team, Tokyo 2020

  Chiaka Sylvia Ogbogu is an American volleyball player. She plays for Eczacıbaşı VitrA and the United States women's volleyball team. She participated in the 2018 Pan American Cup and the 2018 and 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League. She played for University of Texas at Austin. At club level, she started her professional career for Il Bisonte Firenze. She is currently playing for the Turkish club Eczacıbaşı VitrA On June 7, 2021, US National Team head coach Karch Kiraly announced she would be part of the 12-player Olympic roster for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Sources: Wikipedia, US Olympics

Nneka Onyejekwe is an international volleyball player. She plays club volleyball for CSU Metal Galati – champions of Romania for the last three year and unquestionably the best female volleyball team in the country. Nneka also represents Romania at international level.

Ogonna Nneka Nnamani is an indoor volleyball player, currently playing professionally for Galatasaray in Istanbul, Turkey. Nnamani has played at two Olympic Games, in 2004 and 2008. With the U.S. National Team, Nnamani earned the 2008 Olympic silver medal for indoor volleyball. Ogonna was born in Bloomington, Illinois and attended University High School in Normal, Illinois, where she also played basketball. She has a younger sister Njideka who also played volleyball at Stanford University, and two brothers, Nnaemeka and Ikechi.