Inky Ajanaku
| Inky Ajanaku | |||||||||
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 Ajanaku in 2013 | |||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Full name | Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku | ||||||||
| Nationality |  United States | ||||||||
| Hometown | Tulsa, Oklahoma | ||||||||
| Height | 6-3 | ||||||||
| College / University | Stanford Cardinal team. | ||||||||
| Volleyball information | |||||||||
| Position | Middle blocker | ||||||||
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Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku, better known as Inky Ajanaku, is an American
collegiate career, she won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games
. She plays as a middle blocker.
Career
Ajanaku attended
Honda Sports Award finalist in 2015,[3] and went on to win the Award as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball athlete in 2017.[4][5] In 2017 she was nominated for the Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award.[6]
After her college career, Anjanaku joined
Volero Zurich for the 2017–18 season[7] but missed the Swiss Championships because of an injury.[8] In May 2017, she announced that she would leave Voleo Zurich and join Galatasaray S.K., but the contract was cancelled by Galatasaray on September 18.[8]
References
- ^ United States Olympic Committee. Archived from the originalon October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
- ^ "Inky Ajanaku Biography". volleymob.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
- ^ "Washington's Vansant Repeats As Honda Volleyball Sport Award Winner - CWSA". www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
- ^ Athletics, Stanford. "Stanford's Ajanaku earns volleyball's Honda Sports Award". www.paloaltoonline.com. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^ "Ajanaku of Stanford Named the Honda Sport Award Winner for Volleyball". CWSA. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
- ^ "Canada's Kadeisha Buchanan gets ESPY nomination for best female college athlete". CBC News. The Canadian Press. June 22, 2017. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2018.
- ^ "Mittelblockerin aus den USA". volerozuerich.ch (in German). July 5, 2017.
- ^ a b "Former Stanford Star Inky Ajanaku's Contract Terminated By Galatasaray". September 20, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.