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Full name | Paola Ogechi Egonu | ||||||||||||
Nationality | Italian | ||||||||||||
Born | Cittadella, Italy | 18 December 1998||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb) | ||||||||||||
Spike | 3.44 m (135 in) | ||||||||||||
Block | 3.21 m (126 in) | ||||||||||||
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Position | Opposite | ||||||||||||
Current club | Vero Volley Milano[2] | ||||||||||||
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Paola Ogechi Egonu (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpaːola oˈɡɛːtʃi eˈɡɔːnu]; born 18 December 1998) is an Italian professional volleyball player.[3] She plays for Italian volleyball club Vero Volley Milano and is part of the Italy women's national volleyball team.
She participated at the 2018 Montreux Volley Masters,[4] 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship,[5] and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.[6]
At club level, she played for Club Italia in 2015.[7] She was selected to play in the Italian League All-Star game in 2017.[8] In 2017, she moved to AGIL Novara.
She was awarded the prize for Woman of the Year 2019 by D - la Repubblica delle donne, a weekly magazine of La Repubblica.[9]
She was one of the flagbearers of the Olympic Flag at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.[citation needed]
Egonu was born in Cittadella, in Veneto, to Nigerian parents. Her father, Ambrose, is Igbo from Imo State and her mother, Eunice, from Benin City.[10][11] She has two siblings, Angela and Andrea.[12] Her cousin Terry Enweonwu is a volleyball player as well.[13]
In 2020, she dubbed the character Dreamerwind (italian: Sognaluna Dibrezza), originally voiced by Cathy Cavadini, for the Italian version of the animation movie Soul, produced by Disney and Pixar.[14]
In the season 2020-2021, she co-presented the italian show Le Iene.[15]