{"id":109403,"date":"2026-01-03T09:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109403\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:18:30","slug":"texas-tech-signs-tallest-player-in-womens-college-basketball-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/109403\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tech Signs Tallest Player in Women\u2019s College Basketball History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Texas Tech Signs Tallest Player in Women\u2019s College Basketball History\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;top:0\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/8213e7457b72a37a3efd145c98ba009e.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Texas Tech University&#8217;s Lady Raiders have signed the tallest player in the history of U.S. women\u2019s college basketball, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian athlete Stephanie Okechukwu stands at 7 feet (213 cm). The previous record was held by Middle Tennessee State&#8217;s Nicole Dominguez and Eastern Illinois&#8217; Abbie Boutilier, who both stood at 6 feet 10 inches (209 cm). Several other universities were reportedly in the running to sign Okechukwu.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently in the process of obtaining eligibility from the NCAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Tech University&#8217;s Lady Raiders have signed the tallest player in the history of U.S. women\u2019s college basketball,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-109403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}