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Personal information
Born	(2000-10-24) 24 October 2000 (age 24) Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Spike	304 cm (120 in)
Block	292 cm (115 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Outside hitter
Career
Years Teams 2014–2017 2018 2019 2020 2021–2022 2023– VakıfBank II →Bahçelievler VakıfBank →Sistem9 Yeşilyurt VakıfBank Kurobe AquaFairies
National team
2014 2017 2018 2017–2019 2022– Turkey U-15 Turkey U-18 Turkey U-19 Turkey U-20 Turkey
Honours Women's Volleyball Representing  Turkey World Cup Gold 2023 Japan Team European Championship Gold 2023 Belgium/Estonia/Germany/Italy Team FIVB Nations League Gold 2023 Arlington Team Mediterranean Games Silver 2022 Oran Team

Derya Cebecioğlu (born 24 October 2000) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 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.

Club career

Cebecioğlu is 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 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.

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.

Before she was promoted to the VakıfBank A team in the 2018–19 season, she was loaned out to Bahçelievler S.K. 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. 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.

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. On 1 June 2023, she left VakıfBank S.K.

International career

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

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

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. 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.

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

Cebecioğlu debuted in the Turkey national team playing at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Japan. 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. She became gold medalist at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in Arlington, Texas, United States.

Personal life

Derya Cebecioğlu was born in Mersin, Turkey on 24 October 2000.

Honours

Club

VakıfBank

Turkish Women's Volleyball League

1 2019, 2021, 2022

Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup

1 2021, 2022, 2023

Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup

1 2021

2 2020, 2022

FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship

1 2018, 2021

2 2022

3 2019

CEV Women's Champions League

1 2021–22, 2022–23

2 2020–21

International

Turkey U-15

Balkan Volleyball Championship

1 2014

Turkey U-19

Balkan Volleyball Championship

2 2018

Turkey

Mediterranean Games

2 2022

FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League

1 2023

CEV European Championship

1 2023

Individual

Best Outside Hitter

2018 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship,

Top Scorer

2019 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship,

Fair Play Award

2018 Balkan Volleyball U19 Championship.