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Nationality
  
Turkish

Name
  
Serap Yucesir

Position
  
Pro career
  
1990–2008

Weight
  
75 kg

Listed weight
  
165 lb (75 kg)

Height
  
1.91 m

Listed height
  
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

Role
  
Basketball Player


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League
  
Turkish Women\'s Basketball League-Euroleague Women

Born
  
March 18, 1973 (age 51) Kars, Turkey (
1973-03-18
)

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

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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.

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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. She is married with a son.

Achievements with Fenerbahçe

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
  • References

    Serap Yücesir Wikipedia