Paola Egonu

Paola Ogechi Egonu (born 18 December 1998) is an Italian professional volleyball player.

She plays for Italian volleyball club Vero Volley Milano and is part of the Italy women's national volleyball team.

At club level, she played for Club Italia in 2015.

She was selected to play in the Italian League All-Star game in 2017.

In 2017, she moved to AGIL Novara.

She participated at the 2018 Montreux Volley Masters, 2018 FIVB Volleyball World Championship, and 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League.

She was awarded the prize for Woman of the Year 2019 by D - la Repubblica delle donne, a weekly magazine of La Repubblica.

She was one of the flagbearers of the Olympic Flag at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.

Egonu was born in Cittadella, in Veneto, to Nigerian parents.

Her father, Ambrose, is Igbo from Imo State and her mother, Eunice, from Benin City.

She has two siblings, Angela and Andrea.

Her cousin Terry Enweonwu is a volleyball player as well.

In 2020, she dubbed the character Dreamerwind (italian: Sognaluna Dibrezza), originally voiced by Cathy Cavadini, for the Italian version of the animation movie Soul, produced by Disney and Pixar.

In the season 2020-2021, she co-presented the italian show Le Iene.