Nevriye Yılmaz

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Nevriye Yılmaz
Fenerbahçe
2012–2016Galatasaray
Stats at
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Medals
Representing  Turkey
EuroBasket
Silver medal – second place
2011 Poland
Bronze medal – third place 2013 France

Nevriye Yılmaz (pronounced

Turkish family, moved to Istanbul, Turkey
with her parents when she was nine years old.

In 1997, she won the World High School Basketball Championship with Boğaziçi Lisesi.

Career in Europe

She began her basketball career with I.U.S.B.K. (1997–99) and then she played

Galatasaray (1999–01) where she won her first Turkish Championship
in Turkey.

She moved first to the Greek team Apollon Ptolemaida (2001–02) then later to the Bulgarian team Academic Plovdiv (2002). Yılmaz moved then to Italy to play for Termini Imerese (2002–03), La Spezia Basket (2003–04) and Pool Comense Como (2004–05).

WNBA

Yılmaz is the first Turkish woman to play in the

San Antonio Silver Stars
.

Fenerbahçe

In 2005, she returned home to play in

Fenerbahçe Istanbul
.

She won 2005 Europe Cup Ribaund Quenn and 2007 EuroLeague Women All-Star player honor.

Galatasaray

On 6 July 2012, she signed a two-year contract with Galatasaray Women’s Basketball Team.[1]

Yılmaz officially announced her retirement from active sport on 24 October 2016.[2]

She won Euroleague cup 2014 with Galatasaray.

National team

She participated at the

Turkey national women's basketball team
.

With more than 180 games (188 games until 7 December 2007) played Yılmaz the most capped national player or Turkey. She was a student in the Sports Academy at the Istanbul University.

She participated London Olympic games 2012 and Rio Olympic games 2016.

Honors

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nevriye Yılmaz Become Gala Woman". Galatasaray SK. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  2. ^ "Nevriye Yılmaz basketbolu bıraktı". Hürriyet (in Turkish). October 23, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  3. ^ "Danilochkina Heads All-Tournament Team". Eurobasket Women 2011. 2011-07-03. Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-07-04.