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She remembers watching the older guys play and trying to mimic their moves. Sweet J’s love of basketball can be traced back to her days on the playground when she was 10. Showcasing her shooting range, she made a school-record 82 three-pointers her senior year and finished third in the 2008 College 3-Point Championship.

She was named Southland Conference Player of the Year and Student Athlete of the Year in 2008, when she averaged 18.7 points per page and led the school to its first postseason win in program history in the Women’s NIT, hitting the game-winning shot. before she was born.Īs a member of the Texas State University’s basketball team, Sweet J was the fifth player in the school’s history to record over 1500 points and 600 rebounds. Her parents are from Nigeria but moved to the U.S. Sweet J has been a member of the Nigerian national team since 2007. She recently competed in Maputo, Mozambique, Africa with the Nigerian national team in the 23rd Afrobasket for Women tournament. Eighty-eight years later, the world famous team welcomed her as only the 12th female player to the roster. The Harlem Globetrotters have traditionally been a men’s basketball team since they were founded in 1926. Her family then moved to Coppell where she attended Coppell High School. She attended Holy Family of Nazareth Catholic School from 1st to 5th grade, and North Hills Charter School during middle school. But she spent her early years, through the age of 13, living in Irving.

Today, Joyce “Sweet J” Ekworomadu (eck-wor-oh-MAA-doo) is among the Globetrotters’ 2014 class of rookies.