Derya Cebecioğlu (born 24 October 2000) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in) tall at 69 kg (152 lb), and plays in the Outside Hitter position. She last played for VakıfBank S.K. in Istanbul. She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

Derya Cebecioğlu
Personal information
Born (2000-10-24) 24 October 2000 (age 23)
Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Spike304 cm (120 in)
Block292 cm (115 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOutside hitter
Career
YearsTeams
  • 2014–2017
  • 2018
  • 2019
  • 2020
  • 2021–2022
  • 2023–
National team
  • 2014
  • 2017
  • 2018
  • 2017–2019
  • 2022–
Honours
Women's Volleyball
Representing  Turkey
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2023 Japan Team
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2023 Belgium/Estonia/Germany/Italy Team
FIVB Nations League
Gold medal – first place 2023 Arlington Team
Mediterranean Games
Silver medal – second place 2022 Oran Team

Club career edit

Cebecioğlu is 1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in) tall at 69 kg (152 lb). She has a spike height of 304 cm (120 in) and a block height of 292 cm (115 in) playing in the Outside Hitter position.[1][2]

She started her sport career at the age of 14 in VakıfBbank S.K. and played in the academy teams. With the youth team, she won the Turkish Cup, and later with the junior women's team, she won two consecutive years Turkish Championship.[3]

Before she was promoted to the VakıfBank A team in the 2018–19 season, she was loaned out to Bahçelievler S.K.[3] She won several times titles at the Turkish Women's Volleyball League, Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup, Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup as well as at the FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship and the CEV Women's Champions League.[4] In the 2019–20 Turkish Women's Volleyball League season, she was loaned out to Sistem9 Yeşilyurt for two seasons. She returned to her club VakıfBank in the 2020–21 season.[3]

Late May 2023, it was announced that Cebecioğlu signed a deal with Kurobe AquaFairies to play in the 2023–24 season of the Japanese top-level league V.League.[5] On 1 June 2023, she left VakıfBank S.K.[4]

International career edit

In 2014, she was admitted to the Turkey girls' national U-15 team, and won the gold medal at the Balkan Volleyball championship.[3]

She took part at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Argentina with the Turkey U-18 team, which ranked fourth.[3]

In 2018, she won the silver medal with the Turkey national U-19 team at the Balkan Volleyball Championship in Čačak, Serbia. She also received the Fair Play Award of the competition.[6] Her national team placed fourth at the 2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship in Albania. She was named one of the Best Outside Hitters of the competition.[7]

She was part of the Turkey U-20 team, which placed fourth at the FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championships in 2017,[8] again in 2019, both held in Mexico.[3][9]

Cebecioğlu debuted in the Turkey national team playing at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan.[10] The team finished the competition at tenth place. At the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship, her team ranked eighth .She won the silver medal at the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran, Algeria.[11] She became gold medalist at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in Arlington, Texas, United States.[12]

Personal life edit

Derya Cebecioğlu was born in Mersin, Turkey on 24 October 2000.[1][11][3]

Honours edit

Club edit

VakıfBank edit

Turkish Women's Volleyball League
  2019, 2021, 2022
Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup
  2021, 2022, 2023
Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup
  2021
  2020, 2022
FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship
  2018, 2021
  2022
  2019
CEV Women's Champions League
  2021–22, 2022–23
  2020–21

International edit

Turkey U-15 edit

Balkan Volleyball Championship
  2014

Turkey U-19 edit

Balkan Volleyball Championship
  2018

Turkey edit

Mediterranean Games
  2022
FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League
  2023
CEV European Championship
  2023

Individual edit

Best Outside Hitter
2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship,[3][7]
Top Scorer
2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship,[3]
Fair Play Award
2018 Balkan Volleyball U19 Championship.[13][6]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Derta Cebecioğlu" (in Turkish). Women VolleyballBox. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  2. ^ "Derya Cebecioğlu kimdir? Derya Cebecioğlu nereli? Derya Cebecioğlu boyu kaç?". CNN Türk (in Turkish). 17 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Derya Cebecioğlu Vakıfbank'a döndü". Voleybol Plus (in Turkish). 26 May 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b "VakıfBank'ta Derya Cebecioğlu ile yollar ayrıldı". Milliyet (in Turkish). 1 June 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Vakıfbank'ta ayrılık! Milli yıldız Japonya yolcusu". Fanatik (in Turkish). 21 May 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Genç Sultanlar Balkan ikincisi". Anayurt (in Turkish). 30 August 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Derya Cebecioğlu, U19 Avrupa Şampiyonası'nda Rüya Takım'da !" (in Turkish). Türkiye Voleybol Federasyonu. 10 September 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  8. ^ "=FIVB Women'sU20 World Championship 2017 ITA 2–3 TUR" (PDF). FIVB Volleyball Mexico 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  9. ^ "FIVB Women'sU20 World Championship 2019 TUR 3–2 SRB". Women's U20 World Championship Mexico 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  10. ^ "Derya Cebecioğlu, ilk kez A Milli oldu". Haber Ola (in Turkish). 2 October 2018. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  11. ^ a b "Derya Cebecioğlu". olimpiyatkomitesi.org.tr (in Turkish). Türkiye Milli Olimpiyat Komitesi. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  12. ^ "TUR 3–0 ITA". Volleyball Nations League Women. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  13. ^ "Derya Cebecioğlu" (in Turkish). VakıfBank Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 1 August 2023.