Chiney and Nnemkadi Ogwumike

The Ogwumike sisters, senior Nnemkadi and sophomore Chiney, were among the 30 collegiate women’s basketball players named to the 2011-12 John R. Wooden Award Preseason List, the Los Angeles Athletic Club announced this week. The Ogwumikes are the only players from the Pac-12 on the list.

The 36th annual Wooden Award ceremony, which will take place the weekend of April 9-12, 2012, will honor the Men’s and Women’s Wooden Award winners.

Nnemkadi Ogwumike, entering her fourth season at Stanford, is a two-time Wooden Award All-American (2010-11) and was named to the award’s final ballot last season. In 2010-11 she was selected to three additional All-America Teams, the WBCA Coaches squad, the USBWA’s team and to the Associated Press’ Second Team.

She led the Cardinal and the Pac-10 last year with 17.5 points per game and a 58.6 shooting percentage, also grabbing 7.6 rebounds per game. Over NCAA Tournament games she averaged 23.4 points and 6.6 rebounds while shooting 62.5 percent from the field as Stanford reached its fourth straight Final Four.

Younger sister Chiney Ogwumike enters her sophomore season at Stanford in 2011-12. In last year’s campaign, she led the Cardinal with 8.0 rebounds (281 total) per game, averaged 11.7 points a game and shot 57.4 percent from the field en route to being named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year. Her all-around performance, one that included 52 steals and 29 blocked shots as she established a fierce defensive reputation, also earned her selections to the All-Pac-10 Team, All-Freshman Team and All-Defensive Team. In the NCAA Tournament, she averaged 12.2 points and 9.4 rebounds a game while shooting 54.2 percent from the field.

Read more about the Ogwumike sisters, as well as the Stanford women basketball team’s upcoming season on Stanford Athletics’ website.