Paola Egonu
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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 | ||||||||||||
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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 was one of the flagbearers of the Olympic Flag at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.[citation needed]
Personal life
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.[4][5] She has two siblings, Angela and Andrea.[6] Her cousin Terry Enweonwu is a volleyball player as well.[7]
She was awarded the prize for Woman of the Year 2019 by D - la Repubblica delle donne, a weekly magazine of La Repubblica.[8]
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.[9]
In the season 2020–2021, she co-presented the Italian show Le Iene.[10]
Career
Egonu participated at the 2018 Montreux Volley Masters,[11] 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship,[12] and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.[13]
At club level, she played for Club Italia in 2015.[14] She was selected to play in the Italian League All-Star game in 2017.[15] In 2017, she moved to AGIL Novara.
Awards
Clubs
- 2017 Italian Supercup -
Champion, with Igor Gorgonzola Novara
- 2017-18 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) -
Champion, with Igor Gorgonzola Novara
- 2018-19 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) -
Champion, with Igor Gorgonzola Novara
- 2018–19 CEV Women's Champions League -
Champion, with AGIL Novara
- 2019 Italian Supercup -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2019-20 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2020 Italian Supercup -
Champions, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2020-21 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2020–21 Italian League -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2020–21 CEV Women's Champions League -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2021 Italian Supercup -
Champions, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2021-22 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2021–22 Italian League -
Champion, with Imoco Volley Conegliano
- 2022–23 Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup –
Champion, with VakıfBank S.K.
- 2022–23 CEV Women's Champions League –
Champion, with Vakıfbank S.K.
Individuals
- 2015 U18 World Championship MVP
- 2015 U18 World Championship Best Outside Spiker
- 2016 Europe Olympic Qualification Tournament "Best outside spiker"
- 2016–17 Italian League "Top Scorer"
- 2017-18 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) "Most valuable player"
- 2018 Montreux Volley Masters "Most valuable player"
- 2018 FIVB World Championship "Best opposite hitters"
- CEV Champions League 2018–19 "Most valuable player"
- 2018–19 Italian League "Top Scorer"
- 2019 Italian Supercup "Most valuable player"
- 2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship "Most valuable player"
- 2020-21 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) "Most valuable player"
- 2020–21 Italian League "Most valuable player"
- CEV Champions League 2020–21 "Most valuable player"
- CEV EuroVolley 2021 "Most valuable player"
- 2021 European Volleyball Confederation "Female Volleyball Player of the Year 2021"
- 2021–22 Italian League "Most valuable player"
- 2021-22 Italian Cup (Coppa Italia) "Most valuable player"
- 2021–22 Italian League "Top Scorer"
- 2022 FIVB Nations League - "Best opposite hitter"
- 2022 FIVB Nations League - "Most valuable player"
- 2022–23 Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup "Most valuable player"
- 2022–23 CEV Champions League – "Most valuable player"
- 2024 FIVB Nations League - "Best opposite hitter"
- 2024 FIVB Nations League - "Most valuable player"
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2022-10-20. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "PTUR W: Paola Egonu returns to Italy, joins Vero Volley". volleyballworld. Volleyball World. 2023-07-29. Archived from the original on 2023-07-29. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ "Paola, Sara e Valentina: è colorata la nuova Italia del volley femminile". Corriere.it. Eleonora Cozzari. 2016-01-07. Archived from the original on 2017-08-10. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ Cozzari, Eleonora (7 January 2016). "Paola, Sara e Valentina: è colorata la nuova Italia del volley femminile" (in Italian). Bergamo: Corriere della Sera. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
- ^ Morvillo, Candida (3 November 2018). "Paola Egonu: 'Le mie lacrime in Giappone e la lezione della mia fidanzata'" [Paola Egonu:]. Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
- ^ "Paola Egonu: "Schiaccio anche il razzismo. Il futuro? Da avvocato"". Vanity Fair Italia (in Italian). 2017-06-20. Archived from the original on 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Volley femminile, Europei U18 - L'Italia piange in Finale, la maledizione continua: la Russia trionfa al tie-break, argento per Enweonwu e compagne". OA Sport (in Italian). 2017-04-09. Archived from the original on 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Paola Egonu è la donna dell'anno D: la campionessa di volley premiata dalle lettrici" (in Italian). 12 December 2019. Archived from the original on 4 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ "Volley, Paola Egonu protagonista nel nuovo film della Disney: sarà la voce di Sognaluna in Soul". OA Sport (in Italian). 2020-12-12. Archived from the original on 2022-01-06. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Da Madame alla Canalis, ecco le dieci conduttrici de "Le Iene"". Tgcom24 (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2021-12-01. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
- ^ "Player - Paola Ogechi Egonu - Montreux Volley Masters 2018". www.volleymasters.ch. Archived from the original on 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ "Player - Paola Ogechi Egonu - FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship Japan 2018". japan2018.fivb.com. Archived from the original on 2019-08-05. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ "Player - Paola Ogechi Egonu - FIVB Volleyball Nations League 2018". www.volleyball.world. Archived from the original on 2019-04-26. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- ^ "Team Roster – Italy". FIVB.org. Archived from the original on 13 July 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "All Star Game: A Bergamo la sfida Selezione Italia vs Resto del Mondo" (in Italian). Bergamo: Volleyball.it. 18 December 2017. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
- 1998 births
- Living people
- Italian women's volleyball players
- Italian people of Nigerian descent
- Sportspeople of Nigerian descent
- People from Cittadella
- Volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players for Italy
- Serie A1 (women's volleyball) players
- Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from the Province of Padua
- VakıfBank S.K. volleyballers
- Italian expatriate volleyball players in Turkey
- Opposite hitters
- Italian expatriate volleyball players
- Knights of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic