Monica Okoye is fine about being labeled as the sister of professional baseball player Rui Okoye ¡ª for now.
¡°I am where I am because of my (older) brother,¡± Okoye humbly said at the first training camp of the Japan women¡¯s provisional national team in Tokyo on Tuesday.
The 19-year-old forward has become a candidate to play on the senior national team for the first time. Japan will compete at the Asian Games in Jakarta this summer and at the FIBA Women¡¯s World Cup in late September.
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