Alex Owumi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alex Owumi
Occupation	Athlete
Date Of Birth	May 4, 1984(1984-05-04)
Age	40
Birthplace	Lagos
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Lagos
Horoscope	Gemini

Alex Owumi Biography

Alex Owumi is one of the most popular and richest Athlete who was born on May 4, 1984 in Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. Owumi was born on May 4, 1984, in Lagos, Nigeria to Claudia and Joseph Owumi. His father came from a wealthy Nigerian Catholic family, while his mother, Claudia, grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The two met while attending college in the Boston area. Claudia later worked as a teacher at various schools in Lagos and then became a principal. His family lived in a village located just outside Lagos. His father and his brother, also named Joseph, were village chiefs, while Alex was a prince. His rank earned him the title Prince Alexander and entitled him to his own military guard detail. The language spoken in the village was Urhobo; Owumi was not fluent in English in his early years.

In his second basketball season, Owumi joined Monroe Community College (Monroe CC) in Rochester, New York because he wanted to play for head coach Jerry Burns and his staff. He had failed to receive any scholarship offers from Division I programs. On December 4, 2005, Owumi scored 26 points with 8 three- point field goals in a win over Rockland Community College . During his time at Monroe CC, he began attracting interest from basketball teams at Rutgers, San Diego State, and UCLA. A two-star recruit, and the fifth-best junior college recruit in New York according to 247Sports.com, he was recruited from Monroe CC by Samuel West and Jason Cable of the Alcorn State Braves.

On February 1, 2006, Owumi signed a letter of intent to play for Alcorn State, a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) and an NCAA Division I program. He committed to the team on June 10 before enrolling on June 30. In his debut with the Braves on November 9, 2006, Owumi recorded 2 points, 5 rebounds, and 2 steals off the bench in a 103–44 loss to the Texas Longhorns. Owumi struggled to guard Kevin Durant during the game. He first scored in the double digits on November 27, with a team-high 12 points against the Baylor Bears. He led Alcorn State to its first Division I victory of the season on January 13, 2007, when he posted 15 points and 6 rebounds against the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils. Two games later, the junior scored 17 points in a victory over the Alabama State Hornets. Owumi notched a career- high 30 points, along with a season-best ten rebounds, in a March 1 loss to the Prairie View A&M Panthers. During an 11-win season, he averaged 8.3 points, 4.3 rebounds, 0.8 assists, and 0.8 steals per game.

Owumi returned to Alcorn State to play basketball as a senior, and became team captain. In his season debut on November 9, 2007, he had 10 points and 8 rebounds in an 18-point loss to the Southeastern Louisiana Lions . Coming off the bench against the Texas–Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros on December 1, Owumi led the Braves with 20 points. In his next Division I game, he recorded 24 points and eight rebounds. Owumi’s 2007–08 season-high of 28 points came in an 81–75 Alcorn State loss to the Texas Southern Tigers on January 5, 2008; he added 9 rebounds and 4 assists. Although Owumi had an increased role on the team in his senior year, the Braves finished the season with a 7–24 win–loss record. He closed out his final college season with per-game averages of 14.4 points, 6.6 rebounds (a team-best figure), 1.9 assists, and 0.9 steals.

By the age of eight, Owumi had begun playing both basketball and football. He played the former sport with a soccer ball and a milk crate nailed to a tree. The sport was becoming increasingly popular in Nigeria because of the success of National Basketball Association (NBA) center Hakeem Olajuwon, and Owumi followed the NBA. When he was 12, his family moved to England, where they lived for three years. They then settled in Boston after his father joined the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a financial administrator. In sixth grade, Owumi enrolled at the local Tobin School. He attended Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester, Boston, where he played basketball and football. Owumi later estimated that he lost, at most, nine high school basketball games. While attending Burke in 2003, he won The Boston Globe Scholar Athlete Award , given to the top male and female student-athletes in Boston. Owumi was also a part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball team, Boston Amateur Athletic Club, while in high school.

Alex Owumi Net Worth

Alex Owumi is one of the richest Athlete from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alex Owumi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alexander Owumi (born May 4, 1984) is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player and author. He became the subject of widespread media attention following his time with Al-Nasr, a Libyan team owned by the family of Muammar Gaddafi. Owumi plays for the Worthing Thunder of the National Basketball League Division 1 (NBL 1) in England.

On March 18, 2003, Owumi signed a letter of intent to play college football for the Georgetown Hoyas football team under head coach Bob Benson. He joined the team on a scholarship, uncertain of his future in basketball. Although Owumi had initially wanted to play the quarterback’s position, his coaches wanted him to play wide receiver because of his athletic abilities. He later moved to play safety, and eventually became the Hoyas’ third-string quarterback, but he did not appear in a regular season game at the position. Following football season, Owumi often practiced with the school’s basketball team but never joined. He decided to transfer out of Georgetown to focus on academics and basketball, retaining his four years of college basketball eligibility.

Encouraged by their fairly successful basketball program and facilities, Owumi began attending the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) in the next year. He joined the team, which competed in the NJCAA, as a co-captain under coach Dave Chevalier with hopes of playing for an NCAA Division I program in the future. Owumi brought CCRI to its first NJCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship appearance in four years by defeating Lackawanna College on March 13, 2005. However, the team did not bring one of its best defenders to the tournament because he had forgotten his airport ID at home, and they were eventually defeated. Owumi earned second-team NJCAA All-American honors, becoming the sixth player in the school’s history to do so.

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For the 2010–11 season, Owumi received an offer of about $10,000 per month from KK Lirija of the Macedonian First League. While in Macedonia, he was nicknamed “Alexander the Great”. The Macedonian arenas, which often lacked proper heating systems, were about 20 °F (−6.67 °C) in the winter and were sometimes heated using burn barrels. Owumi and his American teammates became the targets of racist slurs from opposing fans. In a road game against KK Rabotnički, some of his Albanian teammates attacked fans burning the Albanian flag, sparking a riot. The violence convinced him to find a new team.

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After a brief spell in the Premier Basketball League (PBL) with the Manchester Millrats in 2010, he signed with KK Lirija in Macedonia. He left the team at the end of the season after facing unpleasant playing conditions and racist abuse, and accepted a lucrative offer with Al-Nasr, joining the Libyan team shortly before the outbreak of the Libyan Civil War in 2011. When conflict erupted, Owumi was trapped in Mutassim Gaddafi’s apartment without food or electricity for several days in the midst of the violence, before he was able to escape to Egypt, where he was arrested and detained. After his release, he played for El-Olympi, an Egyptian team, helping them win a league championship. He then moved to England and began playing in the BBL, joining the Worcester Wolves, with whom he won a league title, before moving to the London Lions and then the Surrey Scorchers.