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Temi Fagbenle          

British-Nigerian Basketball Player; WNBA Champion

Tèmitọpẹ Títílọlá Oluwatòbilọba Fagbenle is a British-Nigerian female basketball player for Perfumerías Avenida of La Liga Femenina. She was chosen for the Great Britain team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Fagbenle was born on 8 September 1992 to a Nigerian family in Baltimore, Maryland, and has eleven siblings, including actor O. T. Fagbenle, film producer Luti Fagbenle, and video producer Oladapo 'Daps' Fagbenle.Her family moved to London, United Kingdom when she was aged 2 and she began playing basketball at the Haringey Angels club. When she was fifteen she returned to the United States to study at Blair Academy in New Jersey. She attended Harvard University before transferring to the University of Southern California for her final year of NCAA basketball.

During her time at Blair Academy Fagbenle was voted on to the McDonald’s All American High School team. She has represented Great Britain at the under-16, 18 and 20 levels and competed at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship held in Serbia. She was named in the British team for the women's basketball tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London having been fast-tracked into the senior side from the under-20s.

In 2016, she was drafted in the third round of the WNBA Draft to the Minnesota Lynx. She won the WNBA Championship with the Lynx in 2017.

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