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Yuko Oga

Japanese basketball player

Yuko Oga

Toyota Antelopes

Position

Assistant coach

League

Women's Japan Basketball League, FIBA 3X3

Personal information

Born

(1982-10-17) October 17, 1982 (age 41)
Yamagata, Yamagata

Nationality

Japanese

Listed height

5 ft 7 in (1.70 m)

Listed weight

139 lb (63 kg)

Career information

High school

Nagoya College High (Shōwa-ku, Nagoya)

Playing career

2001–2018

Position

Point guard

Coaching career

2018–present

Career history

As player:

2001-08

JOMO Sunflowers

2008

Phoenix Mercury

2008-12

JX-Eneos Sunflowers

2013-14

Shanxi Flame

2015-18

Toyota Antelopes

As coach:

2018-19

Toyota Antelopes (Development)

2019-present

Toyota Antelopes (asst)

2018-present

Japan women's national 3x3 team (Support)

Career highlights and awards

2x Japanese High School Champion
2x National Sports Festival Champion
2x Winter Cup Champion
9x WJBL Champion
WJBL Regular Season MVP
6x WJBL Best Five
3x WJBL All-Star
7x Empress Cup Champion
8x Empress Cup Best Five
2010 FIBA World Championship for Women Scoring Leader
Women's Chinese Basketball Association Champion

Medals

Women's basketball

Representing Japan
Asian Games
	2006 Doha	Team competition
	2010 Guangzhou	Team competition
FIBA Women's Asia Cup
	2001 Bangkok	Japan
	2007 Incheon	Japan
	2009 Chennai	Japan
	2011 Omura	Japan
	2013 Bangkok	Japan
Basketball coaching
Representing Japan
FIBA 3x3 Under-23 World Cup
	2018 Xi'an	Japan 3x3
	2019 Lanzhou	Japan 3x3
FIBA 3x3 Women's Series
	2019 Chengdu	Japan 3x3^[1]
	2019 Xiong An	Japan 3x3^[2]
	2019 Tokyo	Japan 3x3^[3]^[4]
	2019 Montreal	Japan 3x3^[5]

Yuko Oga (大神雄子, Ōga Yūko, born October 17, 1982 in Yamagata city)^[6] is a Japanese basketball coach and former professional basketball player. A point guard, she played for JX Sunflowers of the Women's Japan Basketball League and the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA.^[7] Her nickname is Shin.

Career

She started playing basketball influenced by her father who was a basketball coach of the Yamagata University. She was educated at and played for Nagoya College High School (currently Ōka Gakuen High School). While there, she helped the school win 7 national titles. After graduation in 2001, she joined Japan Energy basketball club. In the same year, she received her first call-up for the national team.

In 2004, she represented Japan at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and became the youngest Japanese female basketball player at the Olympics ever.

In 2007, she became the first Japanese female player to sign a professional contract in the domestic leagues. In 2008, she signed a training camp contract with Phoenix Mercury. The club announced on May 16, 2008, that she made the opening day roster. She is the second Japanese player to play in the WNBA after Mikiko Hagiwara who also played for the Mercury from 1997 to 1998. She recorded 4 points and 1 assist in her WNBA debut on May 17, 2008, in the season opener, a 94–99 loss against the Los Angeles Sparks.