Tuğba Şenoğlu İvegin (born 2 February 1998) is a Turkish

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player. She is tall and plays in the wing spiker position for

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in Turkey. She is part of the team which qualified for the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics.

Sports career

Club

At the age of 14, she entered the nursery team of the Vakıfbank S.K. In 2013–14 season, she was part of the team which won the champions title in the Turkey youth and juniors championships. In the 2014–15 season, she was loaned out to

İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyespor İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K., shortly Istanbul BB SK or IBBSK, is a multi-sports club of the Istanbul Province, metropolitan municipality of Istanbul in Turkey. Branches *İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (volleyball team), Volley ...

and in the 2016–17 season to

Beşiktaş J.K. Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü (, ), abbreviated as BJK, is a Turkish professional sports club founded in 1903 that is based in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul. The club's football team is one of the Big Three in Turkey and one of the most ...

In the 2017–18 season, Şenoğlu was promoted to the Vakıfbank A-team. In the 2018–19 season, she was loaned out to AtlasGlobal Yeşilyurt. She returned to Vakıfbank in May 2020. Her university team were runners-up at the 2019

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held in

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, Poland. She was part of the team which won champions titles in one IVB Club World Championship (2018), one

CEV Champions League The CEV Champions League is the top official competition for men's volleyball clubs from the whole of Europe. The competition is organised every year by the European Volleyball Confederation. Formula (2018–19 to present) Qualification A tota ...

(2017–18), three

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s (2017–18, 2018–19 and 2020–21), two Turkish Cups and a

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. In May 2022, she transferred to the Japanese team Kurobe Aqua Fairies to play in the V.League. After one season, she returned home, and joined the

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-based club Kuzyboru GSK.

International

She played at the 2015 Girls' Youth European Volleyball Championship in Bulgaria with the Turkey girls' U-18 team. She was part of the Turkey women's U-20 team at the

2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship was the nineteenth edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for women's national teams under the age of 20, organized by the sport's world governing body ...

in Mexico, where she was named as a "Best outside spiker" of the "Dream Team" alongside Wu Han of China. She is a member of the Turkey women's volleyball team, which qualified for the

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Personal life

Tuğba Şenoğlu was born in

Tarsus, Mersin Tarsus (; Hittite language, Hittite: 𒋫𒅈𒊭 ; ; ; ) is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,029 km2, and its population is 350,732 (2022). It is a historic city, inland from the ...

, southern Turkey on 2 February 1998. She attended

Istanbul Aydın University Istanbul Aydın University () is a private university founded on May 18, 2007, in Istanbul, Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called Ea ...

. On 23 July 2022, she married to basketball coach Burhan İvegin in

Adana Adana is a large city in southern Turkey. The city is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the northeastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the administrative seat of the Adana Province, Adana province, and has a population of 1 81 ...

Awards

Individual

* Best outside spiker (Dream team)

, Mexico

Club

2017–18 Turkish Women's Volleyball League The 2017–18 Turkish Women's Volleyball League is the 35th edition of the top-flight professional women's volleyball league in Turkey. League table Results Head-to-Head results Statistic Results Week 1 Week 2 ...

, Vakıfbank *

2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League The CEV Champions League was the highest level of European club volleyball in the 2017–18 season and the 58th edition. The Turkish club VakıfBank Istanbul won its fourth overall and second consecutive title. The Romanian club CSM Volei Alba Bl ...

, Vakıfbank *

2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship The 2018 FIVB Women's Club World Championship was the 12th edition of the tournament. It was held in Shaoxing, China from 4 to 9 December. Eight teams will compete in the tournament, including four wild cards. Qualification Pools composition ...

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, China Vakıfbank *

2018–19 Turkish Women's Volleyball League The 2018–19 Turkish Women's Volleyball League is the 36th edition of the top-flight professional women's volleyball league in Turkey. League table Results Head-to-Head results Statistics League stage Play-Off Stage Results Week 1 ...

, Vakıfbank * 2020–21 Turkish Women's Volleyball League, Vakıfbank *

2021–22 Turkish Women's Volleyball League The 2021–22 Turkish Women's Volleyball League is the 39th volleyball tournament year and the top-level women's volleyball tournament of the newly branded and reorganized Turkish Women's Volleyball League. The winner, runner-up and third of Turki ...

, Vakıfbank *

2021–22 CEV Women's Champions League The 2021–22 CEV Women's Champions League was the 62nd edition of the highest level European volleyball club competition organised by the European Volleyball Confederation. Qualification Pools composition Drawing of Lots was held on 24 Septe ...

, Vakıfbank

International

2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship The 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 30th edition of the European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. The tournament was co-hosted by Azerb ...

, Georgia and Azerbaijan *

2018 Mediterranean Games The 2018 Mediterranean Games (, ), officially known as the XVIII Mediterranean Games (, ) and commonly known as Tarragona 2018, was an international multi-sport event held from 22 June to 1 July 2018 in Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. Tarragona was ...

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, Spain *

2021 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League The 2021 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League was the third edition of the FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League, an annual women's international volleyball tournament. The 2021 version of VNL was scheduled to start earlier than the previous ...

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, Italy *

2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship The 2021 Women's European Volleyball Championship was the 32nd edition of the Women's European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the CEV. For the second time the Women's EuroVolley was held in four countri ...

, Serbia/Bulgaria/Croatia/Romania

References

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Senoglu, Tugba 1998 births Living people People from Tarsus, Mersin Sportspeople from Mersin Province Sportspeople from Mersin Turkish women's volleyball players Wing spikers VakıfBank S.K. volleyballers Beşiktaş volleyballers Yeşilyurt volleyballers Türk Hava Yolları volleyballers Turkey women's international volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2018 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Turkey Mediterranean Games medalists in volleyball Volleyball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players for Turkey Istanbul Aydın University alumni 21st-century Turkish sportswomen Turkish expatriate volleyball players Turkish expatriate sportspeople in Japan Expatriate volleyball players in Japan Volleyball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics