Ukiah native Elias Obenyah scores Stanford basketball scholarship

UKIAH, CA., 12/10/25 – Elias Obenyah’s basketball journey started as a child in Ukiah and has led him to become one of the top high school players in the state for his senior year at a school in the Bay Area. Now his journey has a new destination: Stanford University, which recently announced Obenyah will play there starting next year.  

Obenyah still comes back on the weekends to Ukiah where his family lives, but he spends his weekdays attending Salesian College Preparatory in Richmond and lives with a host family there, said his mother Christina Obenyah, who was born and raised in Ukiah and still lives there with the rest of their family.