Meet Awak Sabit Bior Kuier, a 23-year-old South Sudanese

Meet Awak Sabit Bior Kuier, a 23-year-old South Sudanese

Meet Awak Sabit Bior Kuier, a 23-year-old South Sudanese who plays as a Finnish professional basketball player who competes for Reyer Venezia in the Italian Lega Basket Femminile and in the EuroLeague Women, and for the Dallas Wings of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).

She competes internationally for the Finnish national team. Selected by the Wings with the second overall pick in the 2021 WNBA draft, she was the second Finnish player in the history of the league after Taru Tuukkanen to be drafted, and she became the first Finnish player to play in the WNBA in May 2021.

She was born in Cairo, Egypt and is of South Sudanese origin. She moved to Finland as a refugee with her family when she was two years old, first settling in the city of Kotka.

Today, her family has settled in the coastal town of Uusikaupunki and she holds dual Finnish and Egyptian citizenship.

She speaks Italian, Arabic, Finnish, and English. Kuier has four older brothers and her parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Source: This is South Sudan