
I always knew basketball was going to be part of the equation. Soon after she started playing organized basketball in Dallas, her hometown. She connected on a school-record 82 three-pointers her senior year and finished third in the 2008 College 3-Point Championship.”Įkworomadu (pronounced eck-wor-oh-MAA-doo) played professionally in Poland and Italy and has been a member of the Nigerian national team since 2007. Her Globetrotters official bio notes she “was the Southland Conference Player of the Year and Student Athlete of the Year in 2008, when she averaged 18.7 points per game and led the school to an opening round Women’s NIT victory. The Sentinel & Enterprise spoke with Harlem Globetrotter Joyce “Sweet J” Ekworomadu on Monday morning. In 1971, in an unprecedented, last-minute upset, the team beat the Globetrotters 100-99. The Harlem Globetrotters, founded by Abe Saperstein in 1926, with their “trick shots and side-splitting comedy,” will match up against the infamous Washington Generals, founded by the late Red Klotz. WORCESTER - The iconic Harlem Globetrotters will pump up the DCU Center on Friday with a show families have been marveling over for decades.
