Onoh US-bound, however Gilas Women stint nonetheless a chance

The doable of Favour Onoh is so monumental that even after sitting out Season 87 of the UAAP ladies’s basketball event, the 6-foot-4 Nigerian middle nonetheless were given recruited out of the University of the Philippines and into the Oklahoma State University program.

And this can be a mutual parting of the way, with the UP Office for Athletics and Sports Development itself wishing Onoh the entire absolute best within the subsequent a part of her student-athlete occupation, and possibly in a while, as a naturalized participant of the Gilas Pilipinas Women’s program.

Onoh, thru a remark launched Wednesday, mentioned that she is looking for additional construction, however no longer with out thanking the very faculty that opened this pathway.

“I believe OSU will allow me to develop more,” she mentioned. “I would not be able to have this kind of opportunity without UP and the skills I learned not just in basketball, but also in life.”

Onoh averaged 11 issues, 14.9 rebounds, 2.9 blocks, 1.4 steals, and 1.4 assists to earn Rookie of the Year honors in Season 86 because the Fighting Maroons made the Final Four for the primary time in 15 years.

Onoh and guard Louna Ozar shaped an impressive Fighting Maroons tandem that had no longer handiest the UP group excited.

Potent frontline

But a knee damage on Onoh tore the ones projections to shreds, shelving the international student-athlete for everything of the following season as UP completed 5th.

Set to fly to Oklahoma on June 12, Onoh’s transfer to the States received’t complicate her bid to transform a naturalized Filipino citizen, in keeping with an Inquirer supply this is acquainted with the interior workings of the nationwide basketball program.

The 19-year-old is being groomed to shore up the Gilas Pilipinas Women’s naturalized participant pool, which, as issues stand, consists handiest of playmaker Vanessa de Jesus.

Reeling Onoh, at a time when the Gilas frontline handiest options Jack Danielle Animam, must additionally make sense because the staff could have a really ambitious inside of presence.