Serap Yücesir is a former Turkish female basketball

Basketball

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 player. The 1.91 m (6' 3") national competitor played in the power forward

Center (basketball)

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 position.

She started basketball in her age of 13 with Bayraklıspor in İzmir

Izmir

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 and played later for Urla Gençlik. Yücesir moved to Fenerbahçe İstanbul

Fenerbahçe Istanbul

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 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

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 won 12 championship titles. After playing for Isanbul University, she transferred in the season 2007-2008 to Turkish Women's Basketball League

Turkish Women's Basketball League

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 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

Kartal

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, Istanbul.

Yücesir played in the gold medal

Gold medal

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 winning national team

Turkey national women's basketball team

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 at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

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 in Almería

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, Spain

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.

Yücesir studied pharmacy

Pharmacy

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, although she had not been able to perform her profession because of basketball, she has now been running her own community pharmacy in Maltepe

Maltepe

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, Istanbul

Istanbul

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. 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