The Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF), has appointed Rivers State born coach, Rena
Wakama as Head Coach for Nigeria’s Senior Women’s National basketball team, D’Tigress.
D’Tigress have been without a head coach since Otis Hughley resigned from his role with the five-time Afrobasket champions in 2022 but the federation made the announcement in a tweet.
According to the tweet, Wakama’s contract with the D’Tigress would run for a two-year period.
Wakama was a former Nigerian National team player, and currently an Assistant Coach at Stony Brooks University, New York, U.S. as Head Coach.
She was a four-year letterman at the University of Western Carolina and played professional basketball in the U.K., in addition to playing for the Senior Nigerian National Team.
She received a bachelor’s degree in Therapeutic Recreation from Western Carolina in 2014 and an MBA from Manhattan in 2019.
Wakama’s immediate task would be to prepare the three-time defending champions for the upcoming twelve-nation 2023 FIBA Women’s AfroBasket tournament, scheduled to hold from July 28 to August 6 in Kigali, Rwanda.