Education
Hightower High School.
Hightower High School.
He is 188 cm (6" 2") tall and weighs 91 kg (200 pounds). Umeh played high school basketball at Hightower High School in Houston. He played college basketball at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (University of Nevada, Las Vegas).
Umeh played professionally for the basketball team LTi Giessen 46ers.
Foreign the 2010-2011 season played for Central Bank Murcia in Spain after winning the LEB Oro play-off finals with ViveMenorca in the previous one. With Murcia, clinched a new promotion to Liga ACB and in 2011 signed with Central Bank Valladolid, but after some weeks, Umeh leaves the team and joins New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig of Basketball Bundesliga.
He is currently playing for Bnei Herzliya from Ligat HaAl, the top division of Israeli basketball. He also plays for the Nigeria national basketball team
He represented Nigeria at the 2009 African Championship.