Liz Cambage

Birth Name: Elizabeth Folake Cambage

Place of Birth: Southwark, London, England, U.K.

Date of Birth: 18 August, 1991

Ethnicity:
*father – Yoruba Nigerian
*mother – Anglo-Australian

Liz Cambage is an Australian professional basketball player. A center, she plays for Sichuan Yuanda. She was previously with Dandenong Rangers, Australian Institute of Sport, Bulleen Boomers, the Tulsa Shock, Zhejiang Chouzhou, Beijing Great Wall, Shanghai Swordfish, Melbourne Boomers, the Dallas Wings, Shanxi Flame, the Las Vegas Aces, Southside Flyers, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), and Maccabi Bnot Ashdod. She has held the WNBA single-game scoring record, 53-points against the New York Liberty on 17 July, 2018. She is 6′9″.

She was born in Southwark, London, England, to a Nigerian father and an Australian mother, Julia Cambage. She relocated to Australia with her mother when she was three months old, after her parents’ separation. They lived in Eden, New South Wales, then Melbourne, and later the Mornington Peninsula.

Liz’s maternal grandmother was named Aileen Roberts.

Source: https://amp.theage.com.au

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2 Responses

  1. suburbanwinemom2020 says:

    Change Nigerian to Yoruba. Folake is a Yoruba name.

  2. Akwaba says:

    Her mother is named Julia Cambage and her maternal grandmother is named Aileen Roberts : https://amp.theage.com.au/national/victoria/bouncing-boomers-high-hopes-20110325-1ca51.html

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