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P o rtlan d O b serv er
Black History Month ____________
Allen Temple CME Church
63rd Church Anniversary
Theme
“ Transforming Lives, Families,
and Communities"
Romans 12:1-2
Schedule of Events
“ Celebrating Grandparents in Worship"
4:00pm - Sunday, February 26, 2012
Message by: Rev. Robert Jointer
Bethesda Baptist Church
Allen Temple Annual Prayer Breakfast
9:00am — Saturday. March 3, 2012
Rose Room - Rose Carden
Tickets - $20.00
Family & Friends Worship Celebration
4:00pm -Sunday, March 4, 2012
Speaker: Bishop A.R. Obey - New Life Baptist
Lacey, WA
Februay 22, 2012
E ducation1S the Prize
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Peg Swadener, whom she cred­
ited with helping prepare her
emotionally for the rigorous fall
schedule, agree that she had just
begun to come into her own
toward the end of last season,
which led to her earning the
team ’s Most Improved Player
award.
“ Last year, it felt like it was
my com ing out y ea r,” said
Egwuatu, who has a 3.208 GPA
at Portland State.
Sw adener described her as
a “true five, a post player, back
to the basket, a physical post.
S h e’s alw ays been our best
physical post player. She re­
ally understands the game and
the position. She can score with
her back to the basket."
Following in the footsteps of
her older sister Patricia, who is a
23-year-old pre-med student at
the University of Washington,
Egwautu started playing sports
in kindergarten at the encour­
agement of her parents Fred and
Florence Egwautu, first genera­
tion immigrants (Florence from
Uganda and Fred from Nigeria)
who met whilestudents at West-*
em Washington University.
Her dad is a tennis player
and played soccer growing up
in N igeria, and all three of
E g w a u tu ’s siblin g s play or
played sports. Patricia was a
D ivision I bound basketball
player before tearing an ACL
in high school, w hile brothers
Em ka, 17, and Chike, 12, both
play basketball. C hike also
plays football.
She chose PSU as a ju n io r at
Riverside High School in A u­
burn, W ash., after a family visit
to Portland.
“I liked the city and the feel­
ing and atm osphere at PSU ,”
she said. Also, sh e’s from a
close fam ily and her parents
have been able to com e to
w eekend gam es.
In her spare tim e, she volun­
teers in the pediatric oncology
clinic at O regon H ealth S ci­
ences U niversity. N am ed to
the Big Sky C onference W in­
ter A ll-A cadem ic T eam last
year, Egw autu would like to be
a pediatrician specializing in
oncology or neurology.
A trip to N igeria has in­
spired her to dream of opening
a clinic for poor children there.
“I love kids, and it was an
experience going back to Africa
where a lot of kids don’t have
health care. I’d like to give back,
maybe open a clinic in Nigeria.
You see a lot of kids with sickle
cell anemia, who don’t have the
care we have here,” she said.
W hen E gw autu has tim e,
she likes to read, and espe­
cially loves H arry Potter books
or “anything th a t’s on the New
York Tim es best seller list."
Since sh e’s had her eye on
the prize since she was nine, it
probably was a no brainer to
rank her academ ic path as her
first priority.
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