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09/28/2023

The Center of the Nigerian national team joins the UMMC roster

The basketball club UMMC signed a contract with the center of the Nigerian national team Victoria Macaulay. As part of the “Foxes” she will wear number 25.

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Photo: FIBA

   Victoria Ayo Macaulay

Date of birth: August 7, 1990
Place of birth: New-York (USA)
Height: 193 cm
Position: center

Victoria Macaulay is an experienced basketball player who, during her ten-year professional sports career, managed to play in the American Women's National Basketball Association (Chicago Sky), in South Korea (Shinhan Bank), as well as for European clubs in Italy (Parma and Napoli), Poland (Energa Torun), France (Nice), Greece (Olympiacos), Israel (Bnot Herzliya) and Turkey (Galatasaray, Bursa, Botas). She also played for the Nigerian national team, with which she won the African Championship twice in 2019 and 2021, but Victoria considers her main achievement to be her performance at the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The center spent last season in the Botas team. In the Turkish championship she averaged 14.4 points, 7.9 rebounds and 1.6 assists, and in the EuroCup - 16.3 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.7 assists.