Jesse Iwuji

At a young age, Dallas, TX native and Nigerian-American, Jesse Iwuji was interested and driven in the sporting world. Being a Texan, football naturally took its course in his life and landed him a full ride scholarship to one of the nation's top universities, the US Naval Academy. There he played NCAA Division 1-A College football four years, graduated with a Bachelors of Science, and was commissioned as a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy. He is still currently an officer and he has been on two Arabian Gulf deployments totaling out to 15 months of deployment time on two different Naval Warships. Outside of the Navy, Jesse has always had a passion in Motorsports. In 2015 Jesse made history by becoming the first US Naval Officer and Naval Academy graduate to compete in NASCAR. 2015 was Jesse's first official stockcar racing season and he began it in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series at Irwindale Speedway. From late model stockcars he transitioned toward the end of 2015 into the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West and competed in the 2016 season with Patriot Motorsports Group where he finished Top 10 in the overall points standing as a Rookie. Over the next 2 years Jesse continued to accelerate through the ranks of NASCAR and also became a 2-time NASCAR Diverse Driver of the Year winner. In Aug 26th 2018 Jesse made history again by being the first current serving member of the US Navy to debut in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series where he had a Top 25 finish and moving into 2019 had multiple Top 20 finishes even on a smaller underfunded team competing against much higher budget teams. Outside of racing & the Navy, Jesse has also starred in various TV & Online shows distributed nationally, owns his own auto racing events company called The Red List Group, and owns a successful transportation & logistics trucking company called JBJE Transportation.