Nicole Enabosi

Nicole Enabosi
No. 33 – Chartres
PositionPower forward
LeagueLa Boulangère Wonderligue
Personal information
Born (1997-03-26) 26 March 1997 (age 27)
New Jersey, U.S.[1]
NationalityAmerican / Nigerian
Listed height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Career information
High schoolOur Lady of Good Counsel High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)
CollegeDelaware Fightin' Blue Hens
WNBA draft2020: undrafted
Playing career2020–present
Career history
2020-2021MBK Ružomberok
2021–2022Herner TC
2022–2023Chartres
2023–2024Toulouse
2024–presentChartres
Career highlights and awards
  • CAA Player of the year (2017-18)
  • 2x CAA All-Defensive Team (2017, 2018)
  • 3x First-team All-CAA (2017, 2018, 2020)
  • CAA All-Freshman Team (2016)
Medals
AfroBasket
Gold medal – first place 2021 Cameroon
Gold medal – first place 2023 Rwanda

Nicole Ehizele Enabosi (born 26 March 1997) is a basketball player who plays as a power forward for Slovak Women's Extraliga club MBK Ružomberok. Born in the United States, she represents Nigeria at international level.[2][3][4]

High school

Enabosi attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)[5]

College career

Enabosi started playing for the Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens in 2015–16 season, she averaged 8.9 PPG and 7.1 RPG in her freshman year.[6] In her sophomore year, she averaged 13.7 PPG and 10.0 RPG. In her 3rd year, she averaged 18.0PPG and 11.8 RPG.[7] She was named the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) player of the year for the 2017–18 season.[8][9]

Enabosi missed the 2018–19 season due to injury, she tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and hurt her knee during the try outs with the Nigerian Women's basketball team preparations for the 2018 FIBA Women's World cup in Spain.[10][11]

Enabosi resumed playing for Delaware in the 2019–20 season as a graduate Student,[12] she was named in the CAA 2019 preseason All conference team[13] and she has been named the CCA player of the week twice.[14][15][16]

Delaware statistics

Source[17]

Ratios
YEAR Team GP FG% 3P% FT% RBG APG BPG SPG PPG
2015-16 Delaware 31 45.5% – 60.8% 7.10 0.68 1.07 1.26 8.87
2016-17 Delaware 29 45.3% 50.0% 72.6% 9.97 2.31 0.90 1.83 13.69
2017-18 Delaware 32 50.8% 66.7% 70.7% 11.81 2.25 1.91 2.00 18.03
2018-19 Delaware Medical redshirt
2019-20 Delaware 25 53.2% – 67.6% 8.40 2.12 0.84 1.64 17.08
Career 117 49.2% 42.9% 68.6% 9.38 1.82 1.21 1.68 14.32
Totals
YEAR Team GP FG FGA 3P 3PA FT FTA REB A BK ST PTS
2015-16 Delaware 31 91 200 0 0 93 153 220 21 33 39 275
2016-17 Delaware 29 121 267 1 2 154 212 289 67 26 53 397
2017-18 Delaware 32 202 398 2 3 171 242 378 72 61 64 577
2018-19 Delaware Medical redshirt
2019-20 Delaware 25 151 284 0 2 125 185 210 53 21 41 427
Career 117 565 1149 3 7 543 792 1097 213 141 197 1676

Professional career

Nicole declared for the 2020 WNBA Draft but went undrafted. In 2020, she joined the Slovak team MBK Ružomberok and help the team the retain the 2021 Slovak Women's Basketball Extraliga.[18] She averaged 16 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.6 assists in her first season at the club.[19]

References

  1. ^ "ENABOSI Nicole".
  2. ^ "FIBA.basketball". FIBA.basketball.
  3. ^ "Meet Nicole Enabosi – TitansBasket – NBBF, Nigeria Basketball Federation". www.basketballnigeria.com.
  4. ^ "Nicole Enabosi Basketball Player Profile, High School, News, Career, Awards - eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC.
  5. ^ "Nicole Enabosi, Good Counsel - High School Sports - The Washington Post". Img.washingtonpost.com. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  6. ^ "Nicole Enabosi Stats - 2018 Player Rankings & Regular Season Stats". HERO Sports.
  7. ^ "Nicole Enabosi - Women's Basketball". University of Delaware Athletics.
  8. ^ "UD's Enabosi Headlines WBB Postseason Awards". caasports.com.
  9. ^ Tresolini, Kevin. "Double-double trouble: Enabosi named CAA's best". delawareonline.
  10. ^ "Nicole Enabosi to Miss 2018-19 Season Due to Injury". University of Delaware Athletics.
  11. ^ Tresolini, Kevin. "Delaware's Enabosi to miss basketball season after tearing ACL". delawareonline.
  12. ^ "The best source of youth basketball - Youthbasket". www.youthbasket.com.
  13. ^ "CAA Announces 2019-20 Women's Basketball Preseason Poll". Elon University Athletics. 21 March 2023.
  14. ^ "CAA Women's Basketball Awards - Dec. 2". caasports.com.
  15. ^ "Basketball | NCAA Women's | Team Stats - washingtonpost.com". stats.washingtonpost.com.
  16. ^ "Delaware Blue Hens Women's Basketball Roster". ESPN.
  17. ^ "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
  18. ^ "NICOLE ENABOSI BASKETBALL PROFILE". Basketball.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  19. ^ "MBK RUZOMBEROK". Basketball.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 5 May 2021.