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2006-07: Ekworomadu was named an All-SLC Second Team selection and Academic All-SLC First Team ... Ranked in the top 20 in the Southland in points per game (13.9), rebounds per game (5.2), field goal percentage (39.5), free throw percentage (70.0), three-point percentage (36.0) and steals per game (1.5) ... Ranked 10th in the Southland in scoring and fourth in three-point percentage ... Averaged a team-high 13.9 points while ranking second on the Bobcats in rebounds and steals ... Led the team in scoring 15 times and rebounds five times ... Twice scored a career-high 29 points, first in a 62-59 win over Texas-Pan American where she also was a season-best 11-of-12 at the free throw line and again in Texas State's 78-77 overtime loss to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in the SLC Tournament ... The 29 points was the highest single game tally by any player for the SLC Tournament ... Reached the 20 point mark in five games ... Recorded two double-doubles, including a 26 point, 11 rebound game in a 51-33 win over Maryland-Eastern Shore ... Had a season-high 11 rebounds in each of her double-doubles
2005-06: Earned Second-Team All-Southland honors after starting in all but one of Texas State's 28 games last season ... Averaged 25.3 minutes per contest ... Was Texas State's second-leading scorer and the seventh-best in the Southland Conference at 13.7 points per game ... Was 14th in the league and tops at Texas State with 45 steals and finished 17th in the league with 68 assists, which ranked third for the Bobcats ... Shot 43.7 percent on 135-of-309 shooting, a figure that ranked 11th in the SLC ... Had the league's 20th-best rebounding average at 5.2 per game and pulled down 145 rebounds on the season ... Was a 71.1 percent free-throw shooter, ranking 15th in the Southland ... Rounded out her SLC ranking totals with 17 blocked shots, which registered 16th in the conference ... Opened the season by setting a career-high with 23 points against Oklahoma State and later broke the mark, scoring 27 at home against Northwestern State ... Went 12-for-17 in the win over the Demons ... Had her best two shooting nights of the year against NSU, shooting 70.6 percent in the game in San Marcos and 70 percent in Natchitoches ... Hit 8-of-11 from the foul line against Lamar ... Registered two double-doubles, both in losses to Louisiana-Monroe ... Scored 13 and had 12 rebounds in the regular-season match-up with ULM and had 15 points and ten boards in the first round of the Southland Conference tournament ... Had eight assists in January against ULM ... Finished the season with 25 three's on 75 attempts (33.3 percent). 2004-05: Ekworomadu played in all 28 games as a freshman, making 21 starts in her first season as a Bobcat ... Averaged 24.5 minutes, 6.4 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists per game ... Had the team's second-best steals total with 33 ... Shot 73.5 percent from the foul line ... Went 8-for-11 from the field, scored a season-high 22 points and played a season-high 38 minutes at Stephen F. Austin on Feb. 10 ... Recorded her first collegiate double-double (10 points, 10 rebounds) at Sam Houston State Jan. 22 ... Pulled down a season-best 12 rebounds Jan. 29 at Nicholls State.
Coppell High School: At Coppell HS Joyce played guard and forward under coach Mitchell Davis ... She was honored as team MVP her junior and senior years ... She was also named to the First-Team All-District her junior and senior years ... In 2002 Coppell High School won the 7-5A Co-District Title ... The team went on in Joyce's junior and senior years to become Frisco Tournament Champs...For the 2001-2002 season Joyce was honored as Newcomer of the District ... Her senior year she averaged 14 points, six rebounds and three steals per game.
Personal: Joyce considered North Texas, Tulsa, Stephen F. Austin, and University of Texas-El Paso before becoming a Bobcat ... She is the only child of Samuel and Justina Ekworomadu ... Joyce Eziaku Ekworomadu was born in Edmond, Oklahoma on August 6, 1986 ... Joyce plans on majoring in pre-pharmacy.
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