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Wajdi Dawo

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Wajdi Dawo
No. 15 – Al Ahli Tripoli
PositionForward
LeagueLibyan Division I Basketball League
Personal information
Born (1988-10-29) 29 October 1988 (age 36)
Tripoli, Libya
Listed height2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)
Career history
Al Ahli Tripoli
Career highlights

Wajdi Omran Saied Dawo (born 29 October 1988) is a Libyan basketball player who currently plays for Al Ahli Tripoli and the Libya national basketball team.

Club career

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Dawo has played for Al Ahli Tripoli for the majority of his career. He was part of Al Ahli's championship roster that won the Basketball Africa League (BAL) in the 2025 season.[1]

National team careernal team career

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Dawo plays for the Libya national team, with whom he competed at the FIBA Africa Championship 2009.[2] Dawo averaged 5 points and 3 rebounds per game in the tournament while playing in seven of Libya's eight games.[3] In his first extended action for the team, Dawo scored a game high 15 points for the Libyans against Angola in the eighthfinals.[4]

Six years later, Dawo also played at AfroBasket 2015.[5]

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References

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  1. ^ "Al Ahli Tripoli are the 2025 BAL Champions". The BAL. 14 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.
  2. ^ Player Page at FIBA.com
  3. ^ Player Page at FIBA Archive
  4. ^ "archive.fiba.com: 2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Men". archive.fiba.com. Archived from the original on 5 September 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Wajdi Omran Saied Dawo (Libya) - Basketball Stats, Height, Age | FIBA Basketball". www.fiba.basketball. 14 June 2025. Retrieved 15 June 2025.