Monica Okoye is fine about being labeled as the sister of professional baseball player Rui Okoye — for now.
"I am where I am because of my (older) brother," Okoye humbly said at the first training camp of the Japan women's provisional national team in Tokyo on Tuesday.
The 19-year-old forward has become a candidate to play on the senior national team for the first time. Japan will compete at the Asian Games in Jakarta this summer and at the FIBA Women's World Cup in late September.