The Nigeria Women’s Senior National Basketball Team, under the direction of newly hired D’Tigress Head Coach Rena Wakama, will compete in the 26th AfroBasket Women’s Championship in 2023.

D’Tigress, who have won the competition three times in a row, will attempt to match the feat of the Senegalese women’s national team, who have won it four times straight.

The event will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, from July 28 to August 6, 2023.

On Friday, the Nigeria Basketball Federation hired Rena Wakama for a two-year contract as head coach of the squad Nigeria Women’s basketball squad.

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The announcement was posted by the federation on their official Facebook page and in a tweet.

Since Otis Hughley left his position as head coach of the five-time Afrobasket champion D’Tigress in 2022, the team has been without a head coach.

Wakama, a Rivers native who serves as an assistant coach at Stony Brook University in the United States.

Wakama played basketball professionally in the UK in addition to earning four letters at the University of Western Carolina.

She graduated from Western Carolina in 2014 with a bachelor’s in therapeutic recreation, and Manhattan in 2019 with an MBA.

After two years as the Director of Women’s Basketball Operations at Manhattan College, Wakama is now in her fourth season as an assistant coach there.

Wakama serves as the team’s academic and volunteer liaison in addition to managing the growth of the wing/guard position players in his capacity as an assistant coach.

Under her guidance, the Jaspers achieved a program-high team GPA of 3.61 and finished fifth nationally in Division I women’s basketball for community service hours.

In order for Davis and Brazil Harvey-Carr to win postseason All-MAAC honors during the 2021/22 season, Wakama assisted in their development.