ArikeOgunbowale

2024 – Dallas Wings – All-Star Game MVP after setting records for most points in a quarter, half and game … All-WNBA Second Team …  led the WNBA in steals (2.13), free-throw percentage (.921) and minutes played (38.6), while listing second in scoring (22.2) and eighth in assists (5.1) …  scoring average was the highest in WNBA history for the league’s steals leader, while she is the first player in W history to average 20-plus points, five-plus assists and lead the league in steals … reached the 20-point mark in 28 of 38 games played, while scoring at least 30 points six times and hitting the 40-point mark once … set or tied single-game career highs in nine statistical categories this season, including matching the all-time WNBA record for three-pointers made with nine on 9/ 1 against Indiana …  became the Wings’ franchise career scoring leader on 9/ 12 against the New York Liberty … scored 11 points to bring her career total to 3,972 to pass Deanna “Tweety” Nolan who finished her nine-year, 293-game career with 3,971 points … took over the top spot in just her 193rd game … fastest in WNBA history to reach 4,000 career points (195 games), besting Breanna Stewart’s previous standard of 196 games … rebounding , assists, steals and free-throw averages were all the best of her six-year career. 

2023 – Dallas Wings – Multi-time All-Star and one of the league’s most prolific scorers, has never finished outside of the top five in scoring in her four seasons … Finished fifth in the WNBA in scoring (21.2) and 12th in assists (4.5) … 2023 WNBA All-Star Game starter … recorded her second career double-double with 19 points and 10 assists versus Seattle (9/8) … became the second-fastest player in WNBA history to reach 3,000 points during her 20-point performance in Minnesota (8/22) … recorded her 15th career game with 30+ points with 30 in Connecticut alongside five rebounds and four assists (8/18) … following her 25-point performance in New York (6/11), she became the fifth-fastest player in WNBA history to reach 2,500 points … led all scorers in the Wings’ home opener (5/20) with 27 points, which represents her most points scored in a season opener over the course of her five years, beating her previous high of 19 points in 2020. 

2022 – Dallas Wings – Appeared in 30 games for the Wings in 2022, scoring 19.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 3.6 assists … she finished the 2022 season tied third in the whole league in scoring … she was named a WNBA All-Star for the second time in her career. 

2021 – Dallas Wings – Scored 17 in just 20 mins at LAS on 5-14 … scored 20 in back to back games, dropping 28 vs SEA 5/22 and 24 at NYL 5/25 … scored 24 points, including a go-ahead 3 with .7 seconds, at SEA 6/6 … netted her ninth career 30-point game vs WAS 6/26 … led the team in assists with 104… holds the fifth spot in WNBA history with a 65 consecutive double-digit scoring streak … became the third fastest player to 1500 points in her 74th career game at NYL 7/5 … dropped 26 points and tied a career high with nine assists at WAS 8/26 … netted 23 points at LVA 9/13. 

2020 – Dallas Wings – Dropped 26 vs CHI 8/26 … set a new career high with 3 steals vs CON 8/6 … set a season high in points, 3PM and Rebounds vs PHX 8/16… scored a career high 39 points in a OT win against WAS 9/6 … scored 38 vs CHI 9/11 … led the WNBA in scoring and had four 30 point games in back to back years. 

2019 – Dallas Wings – Led the team in scoring and her 630 points is 3rd in WNBA history in rookie points … grabbed a career high 7 boards versus the Sparks on 7/18 … hit 11 FTs against PHX 8/11, a career high … scored 20 or more in 18 games this season … scored back to back 20 point games 6/22 and 6/26, the first Wings rookie to do so in 5 years … had a career high six REB at CHI 7/7… scored a career high 35 points vs Los Angeles 8/14 … scored 30 or more points in four straight games, tying Maya Moore’s WNBA record. 2019 WNBA All Rookie team. 

COLLEGE – Notre Dame, 2015-19 – Ogunbowale was a four-year letter winner at Notre Dame and passed Dallas’ own Skylar Diggins-Smith this season to become the program’s all-time leading scorer (2,626 points) … started every game her senior and junior year. The 2018 and 2019 All-American was All-ACC First-Team in the same years. The 5-foot-8 guard’s late game heroics helped Notre Dame take home the National Championship in 2018 and she was a finalist for the Wade Trophy, Drysdale Award and Staley Award during the 2019 season … Ogunbowale averaged 17.6 points per game, 2.4 assists per game and shot 44 percent from the fi eld during her time in South Bend … the Milwaukee, Wisconsin product’s 31 total points against Baylor in this year’s championship game were the second most points in championship game history … Ogunbowale is one of 18 players from Notre Dame that have been selected in the WNBA Draft and the third by the Wings organization … her 21.8 points per game average this season was twelfth best in the NCAA her senior year … other collegiate career honors: 2017-18: Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Top 5 Finalist. WBCA All-American // AP Second Team All-American // USBWA Second Team All-American // USA Today Second Team All-American // espnW Second Team All-American. Final Four Most Outstanding Player. ACC Mary Garber Award – Top Female Athlete of the Year. Spokane All-Regional Team and MVP. Naismith Trophy Semifinalist. Wooden Award National Ballot. WBCA Wade Trophy Watch List. All-ACC Tournament First Team. One-time ACC Player of the Week. Gulf Coast Showcase All-Tournament Team. 2016-17: Naismith Trophy Top 30. NCAA Regional Most Outstanding Performer. NCAA All-Regional Team. WBCA All-Region Team. ACC All-Tournament First-Team. espnW National Player of the Week (11/21/16). Preseason WNIT Tournament MVP. ACC Player of the Week (11/14/16). Naismith Trophy Watch List. 2015-16: ACC All-Freshman Team (Blue Ribbon & Coaches). ACC All-Academic Team. ACC Rookie of the Week (12/14/15). 

HIGH SCHOOL – Graduated from Divine Savior Holy Angels High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin… career per-game statistical averages of 22.2 points, 9.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 2.2 steals with .544 field-goal percentage and .389 three-point percentage… scored 2,240 points in her career, good for sixth on Wisconsin all-time scoring list… as a senior in 2014-15, averaged 27.2 points (second in state), 9.2 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 2.5 steals per game with three double-doubles, pacing DSHA to a 25-2 record, Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Division I state championship and Greater Metro Conference title… scored 763 total points, tying for seventh-highest single-season performance in state history … posted eight 30-point games, including a school-record 55 points in state semifinal win over Middleton… as a junior, averaged 22.7 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.8 steals per game with 19 double-doubles while leading her team to a 20-5 record and Greater Metro Conference title … as a sophomore, paced Divine Savior Holy Angels to a 21-4 record and a spot in WIAA Division I sectional semifinals as well as a runner-up finish in the Greater Metro Conference. 

ACCOLADES 

2019 WNBA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR RUNNER-UP 

2019 WNBA ALL-ROOKIE TEAM 

2020 ALL-WNBA FIRST TEAM 

2020 WNBA SCORING LEADER 

2021 WNBA ALL-STAR MVP 

2021 ALL-WNBA SECOND TEAM 

2023 WNBA ALL-STAR 

2024 WNBA ALL-STAR 

2024 WNBA ALL-STAR MVP 

2024 ALL-WNBA SECOND TEAM 

Shares WNBA Consecutive 30-point game record with Maya Moore (4) 

PERSONAL – First name means “something that you see and you cherish” in her father’s native Nigeria … daughter of Yolanda and Gregory Ogunbowale … youngest of three children … older brother, Dare, was a running back at the University of Wisconsin and currently plays for the Houston Texans in the NFL …  mother, Yolanda, was a softball pitcher at DePaul University … father, Gregory, played soccer and rugby and later served in Nigerian Army … gifted soccer player in her youth, winning four Wisconsin State Cup championships during her club soccer days with Lake Country United (2010-12) and FC Milwaukee (2009) … was member of high school’s Sister of Culture Club and Student-Athlete Advisory Council. 

CAREER TRANSACTIONS – Selected No. 5 overall by the Wings in the 2019 WNBA Draft … signed an extension with the Dallas Wings prior to the 2022 season.