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Foluke Atinuke Akinradewo (born October 5, 1987) is a college volleyball player at Stanford University. She was named Pac-10 Player of the Year in 2007 and 2008. From February – July 2008, she trained with the U.S. National Team and was an alternate on the 2008 Olympic team.
[edit] High school and personal lifeAkinradewo was born in London, Ontario, Canada to Ayoola and Comfort Akinradewo. She holds a tri-citizenship with Canada, Nigeria, and the United States and used to audition for commercials when she was little. Her favorite holiday is Christmas, her favorite subject is science, her favorite books are the Harry Potter series, her favorite TV show is LOST and her favorite music artists is John Mayer, Snow Patrol, The Fray, and Kalai.[1] Akinradewo attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she was a three year letter winner in volleyball and was also on the basketball and track & field teams. She was an All-American selection in 2003 and 2004 and an all-state selection in 2002, 2003, and 2004. She was named the Florida Dairy Farmers Volleyball Player of the Year in 2005. In addition to volleyball, she was an all-state selection in basketball and was a four-time Florida State Champion in track. [edit] StanfordAkinradewo is majoring in human biology at Stanford University. As a freshman in 2005, she was named the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Pacific Region Freshman of the Year. She was named an AVCA Second Team All-American and led the squad in hitting percentage (.397), a mark which ranked third in the Pac-10, 13th in the nation and third for a single-season in school history. In 2006, she was named to the NCAA Final Four All-Tournament Team as she led Stanford to an NCAA Division I runner-up finish to Nebraska. For the year, she was named a First Team All-American by the AVCA and Volleyball Magazine.[2] In 2007, Akinradewo was named the AVCA National Player of the Year and was the Honda Award winner for volleyball.[3] She broke the Pac-10 and Stanford single season hitting percentage record by more than 50 points, as she averaged .499 percentage, a mark that was first in the nation and second since rally-scoring was introduced in 2001. She was named to the Final Four All-Tournament Team as she led Stanford to their second consecutive Division I national runner-up finish to Penn State. As a senior in 2008, Akinradewo repeated as the Pac-10 Player of the Year and got her third consecutive Honda Award nomination. She repeated as a First Team All-American and led Stanford to their third consecutive NCAA title match. [edit] Major international competition2009
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[edit] References[edit] SourcesCategories: 1987 births | Living people | 21st-century American people | 21st-century Canadian people | 21st-century Nigerian people | 21st-century female volleyball players | African American sportspeople | American volleyball players | Black Canadian sportspeople | Canadian Americans | Canadian immigrants to the United States | Canadian female volleyball players | Naturalized citizens of the United States | Nigerian Americans | Nigerian Canadians | Nigerian volleyball players | Nigerian people of Canadian descent | People from London, Ontario | Stanford Cardinal volleyball players | Volleyball people from Ontario | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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