Tia Weledji played basketball at Princeton University from 2014-2018. She's also played on the Cameroon National Team and professionally overseas. She talks about growing up in Overland Park, Kansas, coming from an athletic family, her father's influence on her basketball career, her great high school career at Saint Thomas Aquinas where she won a State Championship with her older sister, Nelly, and her recruiting process that led her to choose Princeton. Tia discusses Princeton's dominance in Ivy League Women's Basketball, playing for then Head Coach Courtney Banghart, playing against Nelly at Brown, the addition of Ivy Madness, and making the NCAA Tournament 3 out of 4 years. She also details the experiences she had playing on the Cameroon National Team in the summers of her Junior and Senior years. Tia also talks about her professional basketball career overseas, the countries she was able to play in, continuing to play for Cameroon, going through rehab after tearing her Achilles, supporting her younger sister, Serena at UPenn, joining Courtney Banghart's coaching staff at the University of North Carolina for a period of time, why her retirement from basketball isn't set in stone, and what's she's up to now.
