Stanford star Chiney Ogwumike makes travel plans for Nigeria, will leave after season ends
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A few days after Stanford's season ends, Chiney Ogwumike (ah-GWOO'-mih-kay) will pack her bags and leave for one of her longest and most important road trips yet.
The All-American and Pac-12 Player of the Year is headed to her parents' native Nigeria to be an intern with the Minister of Petroleum. Yes, that's right.
She will be a job shadow of sorts, and this all counts toward the study-abroad requirement for her international relations major. So, off she goes for the spring quarter.
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As long as the NCAA signs off on it, that is. Ogwumike expects to know any day whether college athletics' governing body will accept her proposal for a leave of absence, but says she's ahead in her major and "it's looking good" that she'll get the formal go-ahead.