Background
Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992, to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, and has eleven siblings.
Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992, to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, and has eleven siblings.
Harvard University.
She has been chosen for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. During her time at Blair Academy Fagbenle was voted on to the McDonald’s All American High School team She has represented Great Britain at the under-16, 18 and 20 levels and competed at the 2011 International Basketball Federation Europe Under-20 Championship held in Serbia.
She was named in the British team for the women"s basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the under-20s.
The event is scheduled to take place between 28 July and 11 August with group stage matches being held at the Basketball Arena in the Olympic park and knock-out round matches at the North Greenwich Arena (also known as The O2 Arena). Her selection for the Olympics came after a 12-month period in which she was unable to play for the Harvard Crimson women"s basketball team due to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (National Collegiate Athletic Association) declaring her ineligible.
Fagbenle had taken the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exam whilst at school in the United Kingdom and National Collegiate Athletic Association rules say that an athlete must be enrolled in college within two years of sitting for the examination Fagbenle took an additional year to graduate from high school because she repeated a year after moving to the United States.
