The route Josephine Owino took into university basketball
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Kenyan
Athlavia had no involvement with Josephine Owino. She has not used this product, is not connected to it and has not endorsed it. Everything on this page about her is drawn from the published sources listed at the foot, and cited so you can read the originals. The sentences about what an association’s rules permit are ours; they are statements about a rulebook, they are marked as such where they appear, and they are not about her.
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3 pages, all on en.wikipedia.org. Treat that as one source, not 3. The only site is Wikipedia — an encyclopaedia, not a primary record.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
One institution on the record: Union University (Jackson, Tennessee), NAIA. 17 of the 110 routes documented here include a stop on that row. The rows above and below are the frame of reference, not places she was.
Left to right is the order the sources place her stops in. It is not a time axis: 54 of the 181 stops recorded across this site carry a bare pair of dates and the rest are prose, so the years are printed as written, in the list below.
The rows are the NCAA’s own three divisions, plus two dashed rows for everything outside them. NAIA and U SPORTS are separate associations rather than a lower NCAA tier, and nothing in these records ranks them against it; the two-year colleges sit at the foot because a junior college is an institution players transfer on from, which the records do say. The shaded bar behind each row is how many of the 110 routes documented here include a stop at that level.
The institution on the record
Printed as written. The drawing above compresses these; this list does not, because every caveat in the research lives inside these sentences.
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Union University (Jackson, Tennessee)
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TranSouth Athletic Conference
2005-2009
What these levels are, and what money can exist at them
These are facts about rulebooks. They apply to everyone at that level, and none of them is a statement about her.
NAIA
This association permits athletic scholarships. Whether any particular player received one, and how much of one, is not published.
Where she was before she left
Mombasa High School in Kenya; played club basketball for Kenya Commercial Bank and Kenya Ports Authority.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Owino came from Mombasa and the Kenyan club league to a small NAIA university in Tennessee rather than to a Division I programme. She was named NAIA player of the year twice, in 2008 and 2009, and was then selected 28th overall in the third round of the 2009 WNBA draft by the Washington Mystics - the first Kenyan player in WNBA draft history.
What is known about money
Athletic scholarships are permitted at every level on this route. That is a fact about the rulebook, not about her.
No source we fetched states what she received, if anything.
6 of the 110 routes documented here have a source stating any financial term at all. The other 104 do not, and that is normal rather than a gap in the research: a university announces a signing as a roster addition, and what a player was offered stays between her and the programme. Read silence as silence.
No source states anything about money.
Copied without editing. Like the checking notes further down, some of these sentences are instructions to the person writing this page rather than statements about her.
No scholarship, amount, percentage or financial term is stated in any source I read.
What happened since
Drafted 28th overall by the Washington Mystics in 2009. Wikipedia records that she was waived three games into the season when a replacement was needed for the injured Marissa Coleman, and that she never appeared in a regular-season game; the Wikipedia draft table separately marks her as a player who never appeared in the WNBA regular season or playoffs. She debuted for the Kenya women's national team in 2000.
No retrieval date is stored against these sources, so treat anything time-sensitive — a current club, a current roster — as needing a fresh check.
Athlavia’s note on this route
Everything above is drawn from the sources. This is our editorial judgement about why the route is worth showing, and it is the only opinion on this page.
A useful corrective in both directions. The NAIA took her all the way to a WNBA draft pick, so the ceiling is higher than families assume. But she was waived three games into the season and never played a regular-season WNBA game, which is the far more common ending and worth saying plainly.
This set has not been through the balancing pass, so it may over-represent Division I.
What we could not confirm
These are the checking pass’s own notes, copied without editing. They address the person writing this page, which is why some are phrased as instructions. They are published because a list of what we removed is worth more than an assurance that we checked.
What the second pass removed or corrected
- CORRECTED: the previous draft published her Union University span as 2003-2009 and flagged it as an odd six-year window. The article states 2005-2009, a normal four-year span. The 2003 start date was wrong and has been removed.
- CORRECTED: the previous draft described Union as 'NAIA Division I'. The sources say NAIA and TranSouth Athletic Conference without specifying an NAIA division, so the division qualifier has been dropped.
What is still unknown
- Union University moved to NCAA Division II in 2012 and now plays in the Gulf South Conference. Do not describe it by its present-day affiliation when telling her story.
- Her prior Kenyan clubs are listed without dates.
- The draft and the waiving are now double-sourced within Wikipedia (biography plus draft table). I could not load an official Union University or WNBA page for her; the earlier draft's single-source warning is partly, not fully, resolved.
Our own summary above carried her date of birth. It has been taken out: it is on no route, it explains nothing about one, and it is the most identifying thing in our file about a living woman who did not ask to be in it. Nothing else in those paragraphs has been changed.
Researcher’s own rating: 80 out of 100. This is the checking agent’s self-assessment, not a measurement. Across the 110 records it runs from 62 to 93, so the source count above it tells you more.
Sources
3 pages fetched and re-checked. Found by one researcher and re-checked by a second whose instruction was to fetch every cited URL and delete whatever the page did not support.
| # | Title | Publisher | Site | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Josephine Owino | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | 2009 WNBA draft (confirms pick 28, Washington Mystics, Union University, Kenya) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 3 | Union University (confirms Jackson, Tennessee, and NAIA / TranSouth Athletic Conference membership 1996-97 to 2011-12) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
These 3 pages come from 1 site, so some of them share one. The strip at the top of this page counts sites, not links.
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (8 of the 108 women documented here)
The first 6 of 7, in alphabetical order.
- Alina Jahnke — Germany · NAIA · 1 site
- Carly Boag — Australia · NAIA · 2 sites
- Dominique Stephens — New Zealand · NAIA · 2 sites
- Frida Schmidt — Germany · NAIA · 1 site
- Marieme Lo — Senegal · NAIA · 2 sites
- Melissa (Mellissa) Akullu — Uganda · NAIA · 3 sites
Other routes from Kenya
- Madina Okot — Kenya · NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
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This set has not been through the balancing pass, so it may over-represent Division I.
110 routes, 44 countries, 32 through a junior or community college, 36 never played NCAA Division I — so you can see whether this record is typical of the set or unusual within it.