Serap Yücesir

Turkish basketball player

Serap YücesirFenerbahçe Istanbul (15 seasons: 1990-2003, 2004-2006)

Position| Power forward
Personal information
Born|  (1973-03-18) March 18, 1973 (age 50)
Kars, Turkey
Nationality| Turkish
Listed height| 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight| 165 lb (75 kg)
Career information
Playing career| 1990–2008
Career history
2007-2008| Panküp TED Kayseri College
2006-2007| Istanbul University
2004-2006| Fenerbahçe Istanbul
2003-2004| Galatasaray Medical Park
1990-2003| Fenerbahçe Istanbul

Serap Yücesir (*18 March 1973 in Kars, Turkey) is a former Turkish female basketball player.[1] The 1.91 m (6' 3") national competitor played in the power forward position.[2]

She started basketball in her age of 13 with Bayraklıspor in İzmir and played later for Urla Gençlik. Yücesir moved to Fenerbahçe İstanbul in 1990, where she played 13 seasons long. She transferred then to Galatasaray Medical Park, but returned to her previous club after one season. The captain won 12 championship titles. After playing for Istanbul University, she transferred in the season 2007-2008 to Turkish Women's Basketball League team Panküp TED Kayseri College. After ending her active sports career, she serves together with her former teammate Arzu Özyiğit as trainer in a women's basketball school in Kartal, Istanbul.[3][4][5]

Yücesir played in the gold medal winning national team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.

Yücesir studied pharmacy, although she had not been able to perform her profession because of basketball, she has now been running her own community pharmacy in Maltepe, Istanbul.[6] She is married with a son.

## Achievements with Fenerbahçe[edit]

Turkish Championship

* Winners (4): 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006

Turkish Federation Cup

* Winners (6): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006

Turkish Super Cup

* Winners (5): 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005

## See also[edit]

* Turkish women in sports

## References[edit]

1. ^ Aras, Yaprak (10 April 2005). "En iyi kadın basketbol takımı en başarısız erkekleri yenemez". MİLLİYET (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 April 2011.
2. ^ "Serap Yücesir (Fenerbahçe SK Istanbul)". FIBA Europe. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
3. ^ "Biz Kimiz? Asİstanbull Spor Kulübü – Basketbol Okulları" (in Turkish). AsIstanbul. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
4. ^ "Serap Yücesir TED Kayseri Klj.'nde" (in Turkish). 2007-10-30. Archived from the original on 2011-09-05. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
5. ^ "Panküp TED Kayseri, Apollon'u Farklı Yendi" (in Turkish). Kanka.net. 2007-11-20. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
6. ^ "Serap'ın Pozitif Eczanesi" (in Turkish). Fenebahçe. 2005-11-17. Retrieved 2011-04-02.

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