Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike of the Los Angeles Sparks share a sisterhood of basketball and empowerment. Nnemkadi "Nneka" Ogwumike, the older sibling by two years, graduated from Stanford College in 2012. She was the Cardinal's 3rd all-time leading scorer with 2, 491 factors and earned nearly every collegiate honor. Currently, a seven-year WNBA veteran, the forward has actually gained most honors the league supplies, her most noteworthy being 2016 WNBA The Majority Of Valuable Player and 2016 WNBA Champion. Her list of accolades continues with WNBA Rookie of the Year, All-Defensive Team, All-First Group, and All-Star honors. A gritty competitor, Nneka's game is recoiling. In her job so far, Nneka averages 7.6 RPG. She got a career-high 20 rebounds against Indiana in 2012, however her game isn't constrained to the paint. The flexible onward swished 5 of 7 attempted 3-pointers against the top-ranked Washington Mystics earlier this season. Nneka's unselfish personality equates to her play, establishing assist displays for teammates like Chelsea Gray and completing on pick-and-roll plays. Nneka was identified as the 2018 WNBA Neighborhood Assist Honor recipient after dealing with youngsters to contribute. Youngsters, quite actually, respect Nneka as a coach, as does her younger sis Chiney. Chinenye "Chiney" Ogwumike, the taller of the sisters by two inches Fans Personalized, adhered to in Nneka's steps yet definitely not in her shadow. The player that outscored Nneka to become Stanford's leading marker? Chiney. Do with 2, 737 factors and 1, 567 rebounds, Chiney fortified the Ogwumike tradition prior to graduating in 2014. In her senior period alone, She videotaped 967 factors, a Pac-12 single-season rating document. The Ogwumike sisters would certainly rather sustain rather of complete each other. It wasn't until the 2019 season that the Texas sis were given the chance by the Los Angeles Sparks. Chiney was prepared to the Connecticut Sun and energetic with them for three seasons. In her first period the lengthy power-forward played and begun in all 31 games. Leading her group in rating and rebounding to gain 2014 WNBA Novice of the Year honors, a title Nneka held two years prior. While Chiney was new to the league, Nneka was a three-year specialist that lead the Triggers with 7.1 rebounds and started in all 33 video games played. The Ogwumike sis's private games shared resemblances consisting of ruthless rebounding and the ability to log double-doubles regularly. Nneka uploaded 49 double-doubles throughout her job and checking. Chiney posted 13 double-doubles in her novice project alone 5th highest possible in Sun history and 8 in 2016 after recuperating from microfracture surgical procedure on her right knee the season prior. While Chiney was sidelined, she started an occupation as an ESPN analyst, commuting one hour to ESPN's Bristol university while playing for the Sunlight in Connecticut. Since becoming a voice for ladies, Chiney has actually hosted the NBA Celebrity Game, went to a Bleacher Report panel in honor of Black History Month, and joined NBA Africa in traveling to Rwanda, Kenya, and Nigeria. Chiney's first-hand experience playing collegiate and professional basketball backs her trustworthiness as an analyst and permits her to silence stereotypes against ladies in sports. Energy, one more category in which the sis would lead, is what maintains them on the court. As teammates on the Triggers, Nneka and Chiney both started at the beginning of the 2019 season. If Chiney really did not roll her shorts, you might quickly confuse the 2 when they're both crashing the boards with the very same tenacity. The siblings are just as energetic off the court. Nneka is head of state of the Female's National Basketball Athletes Association and Chiney is Vice Head Of State. Teaming up with players on all of the 12 WNBA groups, the Ogwumike siblings utilize their platforms as specialist athletes to damage down barriers of inequality in the workforce. As first-generation Nigerian-Americans, Nneka and Chiney have partnered with the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Initiatives of UNICEF include interesting American ladies basketball gamers in area service while elevating awareness of existing occasions in Nigeria. Funds elevated by UNICEF assistance Nigeria's reserve that helps assistance programs like ladies education and ladies empowerment in addition to efforts that shield and save the lives of kids. Peter and Ify Ogwumike are the moms and dads to Nneka and Chiney. There are 2 younger Ogwumike sisters, Olivia and Erica. Instead of participating in Cy-Fair Senior high school like their big sisters, Olivia and Erica participated in Cypress Woods High Institution near Houston. Olivia, 5' 11, and Erica, 5' 9, transferred from Pepperdine College to Rice University. Olivia, an elderly this previous season, hadher finest campaign as a redshirt junior, balancing 9.8 factors and 2.8 rebounds in 24.3 minutes in spite of missing out on 23 video games as a result of injury. Erica most lately in her junior season ended up being the initial student-athlete in school history to make C-USA Lady Professional athlete of the Year honors and Conference United States Gamer of the Year honors after balancing 16.5 factors and 10.5 boards. If Erica has found out anything from watching Nneka and Chiney play, it's how to log double-doubles. Erica led all C-USA players with 18 double-doubles in 2018-2019, which placed 17th in the NCAA.