Tèmítọ́pẹ́ Títílọlá Olúwatóbilọ́ba Fagbenle is a British female

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player for

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. She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the

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Personal life

Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992 to a Nigerian family in

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, and has eleven siblings, including actor O. T. Fagbenle, film producer

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, and video producer Oladapo 'Daps' Fagbenle. Her family moved to

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, United Kingdom when she was aged 2 and she began playing basketball at the

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club. When she was fifteen she returned to the United States to study at

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in New Jersey. She attended

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before transferring to the University of Southern California for her final year of NCAA basketball. she was tall and weighs .

Basketball career

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

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held in Serbia. She was named in the British team for the women's basketball tournament at the

in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the under-20s. She averaged 4.8 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 1.2 blocks and 1 steal in 19.2 minutes per game. GB went 0-5 and failed to qualify from their group. Her selection for the Olympics came after a 12-month period in which she was unable to play for the

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women's basketball team due to the

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(NCAA) declaring her ineligible. Fagbenle had taken the

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(GCSE) exam whilst at school in the UK and NCAA rules say that an athlete must be enrolled in college within two years of sitting for the exam; Fagbenle took an additional year to graduate from high school because she repeated a year after moving to the United States.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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Playoffs

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College

Harvard and Southern California statistics

Source

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