A two-time Ivy League Player of the Year and four-time All-Ivy honoree, Ugonna Onyekwe helped the Quakers to Ivy League titles in three of his four campaigns from 1999-2003. As a freshman, he collected Ivy League Rookie of the Year accolades and was second-team All-Big 5. He returned to the All-Big 5 lists as a junior and senior, when he was named to the first team—coinciding with his back-to-back Ivy League Player of the Year selections and Associated Press All-America Honorable Mentions in 2001-02 and 2002-03.

Onyekwe graduated second on Penn’s all-time scoring list, with 1,762 points, and eighth on the all-time rebounding list with 759. He was part of two Penn teams that went unbeaten in Ivy League play—in 1999-2000 and 2002-03—and three Quaker squads that participated in NCAA Tournaments as the Ivy League’s automatic bid. In recognition of his Quaker career, Onyekwe was inducted into the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame in 2015.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in economics and marketing, Onyekwe had an eight-year professional basketball career in Israel and Spain. He then embarked on a career in the music industry, co-founding Podini Media before earning a professional certificate in general music studies, production, composition and songwriting from Berklee College of Music. Onyekwe currently works in business development for Hits Songs Deconstructed, which is the number-one source for hit songwriting analysis and trends.