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Nationality | Turkish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Istanbul, Turkey | 10 November 2003||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spike | 305 cm (120 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Block | 290 cm (114 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Position | Wing spiker | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current club | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Honours
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İpar Özay Kurt (born 10 November 2003) is a Turkish volleyball player. She played for Fenerbahçe as wing spiker with jersey number 16 and now plays for Stanford University. [2] She is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 69 kg (152 lb). [1] [3]
İpar Özay Kurt was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 10 November 2003. [3]
After playing for the İlbank in Ankara, [4] she joined the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe in 2017. [3] [5] Between 2015 and 2017, she enjoyed several local and national champion titles. [3]
Kurt was part of the girls' national youth team, [4] which finished the U16 Balkan Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2017 at fourth place. [6]
She won the bronze medal with the national U17/U18 team the 2018 Girls' U17 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. [7] [8] She was a member of the bronze-medalist women's national U18 team at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in Baku, Azerbaijan. [9] Kurt played for the national team at the 2019 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship in Cairo, Egypt, which ranked 9th. [10] As of 2020, she has represented Turkish national youth and junior teams in 22 games. [3]
She was named the " Most valuable player" of the 2020 Women's U19 European Championship in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzogovina, where the Turkey national U20 team became champion. [11]