Basketball: Chatham teenager gets scholarship to play for top US side

A teenager from Kent has been awarded a scholarship to play basketball for a top American team.

Tamara Fournillier-Onadeko, 18, from Chatham, recently arrived in Chicago, where she will be playing for the University of Illinois for the next four years.

She said: "It's important to me to be a role model for young, black girls. There are less opportunities for us."

Video Journalist: Stuart Maisner

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4 August 2021