The route Marieme Lo took into university basketball
Forward (183 cm)
Senegalese
Athlavia had no involvement with Marieme Lo. 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 across 2 sites.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
One institution on the record: Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio), a public historically Black land-grant university, 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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Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio), a public historically Black land-grant university
NAIANAIA at the time she played (the university has since moved to NCAA Division II)
Conference not established by the sources we read.
a four-year career ending with the 1998 season
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
Born in Dakar, Senegal, 10 September 1972. No club or school in Senegal is named in the sources I read.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Lo went from Dakar to a small historically Black university in rural Ohio, not to a major programme. The Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame records that in four years at Central State she became the school's all-time leading scorer with 2,580 points and its leading rebounder with 1,268, averaging 20.9 points and 10.3 rebounds across 123 games, and was NAIA Division I National Player of the Year in 1998. She did it while majoring in computer information systems with a cumulative 3.91 grade point average, and went on to play at the Sydney Olympics for Senegal.
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
The Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame records that between her junior and senior years she played for Senegal's winning team at the 1997 African National Championships. Wikipedia records that she competed for Senegal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was inducted into the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. No professional club career is recorded in the sources I read.
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.
An older example, but the most complete answer to the question 'can a smaller university still lead somewhere?' A NAIA school in Ohio produced a national player of the year, a computer information systems degree, an Olympic appearance and eventually a state hall-of-fame induction. Her academic record is published alongside her scoring record, which is the balance families should be looking for.
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
- VERIFIED. All three cited URLs loaded and support the claims made.
- CORRECTED: the previous draft gave her years as 'approx. 1994-1998'. No source states a start year, so only 'a four-year career ending with the 1998 season' is claimed here.
What is still unknown
- Central State's athletic affiliation has changed since the 1990s - it now competes in NCAA Division II in the SIAC. Do not describe the university by its present-day division when telling her story.
- This pathway is from the 1990s. Recruiting, eligibility and transfer rules have all changed substantially since, so present it as proof that small universities can lead somewhere, not as a procedural guide.
- No conference could be established for her one stop.
Researcher’s own rating: 84 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 | Marieme Lo - 2016 inductee | Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame | ohiobasketballhalloffame.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | Marieme Lo | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
| 3 | Central State University (used to confirm HBCU status and the NAIA-then, NCAA Division II-now athletic affiliation) | Wikipedia | en.wikipedia.org | Loaded and re-checked |
These 3 pages come from 2 sites, 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
- Josephine Owino — Kenya · NAIA · 1 site
- Melissa (Mellissa) Akullu — Uganda · NAIA · 3 sites
Other routes from Senegal
- Charlotte Carvalho — Senegal · Two-year college → Two-year college → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Fatou Pouye — Senegal · Two-year college → 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.