Turkish Women's Basketball League
Encyclopedia
The Turkish Women’s Basketball League (Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...

: "Türkiye 1. Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi", TKBL) is the top women’s professional basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 league in Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 organized by the Turkish Basketball Federation
Turkish Basketball Federation
The Turkish Basketball Federation is the governing body of basketball in Turkey. Formed in 1959, it is based in Istanbul. The TBF is a member of the International Basketball Federation and the Union of European Leagues of Basketball . Current chairman of the federation is Turgay Demirel.It...

. The women’s league started in 1980. There is also a Turkish Women’s Second Basketball League (TKB2L).

The competition

The competitions are played in two categories: Standard league and playoffs. There are 12 teams in the league and they play against each other twice in the league manner, once at their home and the other away. At the end of the season, the top 8 teams qualify for the playoff games. The two lowest placed teams of the Premier League, ranking 11th and 12th, relegate into the Second League. The two top teams of the Second League are promoted to the Premier League.

The playoffs follow a tournament format in three rounds for 8 teams: first round, semifinals and final. The four winners of the first round go to the semifinal round. The two victors of the semifinals compete in the final playoff round for the TBBL championship.

Galatasaray
Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

 is the most successful team of this competition with 11 trophies.

History

  • 1980-1981 ODTÜ
    Middle East Technical University
    Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

  • 1981-1982 ODTÜ
    Middle East Technical University
    Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

  • 1982-1983 ODTÜ
    Middle East Technical University
    Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

  • 1983-1984 Beşiktaş
  • 1984-1985 Beşiktaş
  • 1985-1986 MTA
    MTA
    MTA may refer to:* 4-Methylthioamphetamine* Manufacturing Technologies Association, UK trade association* Material transfer agreement, governing the transfer of research materials between two organizations* Metastasis-associated protein:**MTA1**MTA2...

  • 1986-1987 MTA
    MTA
    MTA may refer to:* 4-Methylthioamphetamine* Manufacturing Technologies Association, UK trade association* Material transfer agreement, governing the transfer of research materials between two organizations* Metastasis-associated protein:**MTA1**MTA2...

  • 1987-1988 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1988-1989 İÜSBK
  • 1989-1990 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1990-1991 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1991-1992 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1992-1993 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1993-1994 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1994-1995 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1995-1996 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1996-1997 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1997-1998 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 1998-1999 Fenerbahçe
  • 1999-2000 Galatasaray
    Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
    Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

  • 2000-2001 Botaş Spor
    Botaş Spor
    Botaş Spor is a women's basketball club based in Adana, Turkey, founded in 1984.-Achievements:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Winners : 2000-01, 2002-03**Runners-up : 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97*Turkish Cup...

  • 2001-2002 Fenerbahçe
  • 2002-2003 Botaş Spor
    Botaş Spor
    Botaş Spor is a women's basketball club based in Adana, Turkey, founded in 1984.-Achievements:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Winners : 2000-01, 2002-03**Runners-up : 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97*Turkish Cup...

  • 2003-2004 Fenerbahçe
  • 2004-2005 Beşiktaş
  • 2005-2006 Fenerbahçe
  • 2006-2007 Fenerbahçe
  • 2007-2008 Fenerbahçe
  • 2008-2009 Fenerbahçe
  • 2009-2010 Fenerbahçe
  • 2010-2011 Fenerbahçe

Titles

Team Championships Winning Years
Galatasaray
Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team
Galatasaray Medical Park is the women's basketball section of Galatasaray S.K., a major sports club in Istanbul, Turkey. The club is sponsored by Medical Park....

11 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000
Fenerbahçe 9 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
Beşiktaş 3 1984, 1985, 2005
ODTÜ
Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University is a public technical university located in Ankara, Turkey...

3 1981, 1982, 1983
Botaş Spor
Botaş Spor
Botaş Spor is a women's basketball club based in Adana, Turkey, founded in 1984.-Achievements:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Winners : 2000-01, 2002-03**Runners-up : 1992-93, 1995-96, 1996-97*Turkish Cup...

2 2001, 2003
MTA
MTA
MTA may refer to:* 4-Methylthioamphetamine* Manufacturing Technologies Association, UK trade association* Material transfer agreement, governing the transfer of research materials between two organizations* Metastasis-associated protein:**MTA1**MTA2...

2 1986, 1987
İÜSBK 1 1989

Notable Players

  • Işıl Alben
    Isil Alben
    Işıl Alben is a Turkish professional female basketball player. Işıl plays for Galatasaray Medical Park.-Honors:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Runners-up : 2007-08, 2009–10*Turkish Cup...

  • Gülşah Akkaya
    Gülsah Akkaya
    Gülşah Akkaya is a Turkish professional woman basketball player in forward position. The 1.81 m tall national player is a top scorer....

  • Melike Bakırcıoğlu
    Melike Bakircioglu
    Melike Bakırcıoğlu is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as forward position. She is 190 cm tall and 79 kg weights. She is playing for Beşiktaş Cola Turka and also played for Fenerbahçe İstanbul between 2005-10 seasons...

  • Melisa Can
    Melisa Can
    Melisa Can aka Michelle Marie Campbell is U.S. born Turkish female basketball player at the power forward position who plays for Galatasaray Medical Park....

      
  • Bahar Çağlar
    Bahar Çaglar
    Bahar Çağlar is a Turkish professional basketball player of Galatasaray Women's Basketball Team.-Honors: Galatasaray**Turkish Presidents Cup***Winners : 2007-2008**EuroCup Women...

  • Olcay Çakır
    Olcay Çakır
    Olcay Çakır is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as both guard position. Olcay Çakır is 182 cm tall and 60 kg weights. She is playing for Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 2005 in youth level and since 2010 in senior level.-External links:*...

  • Begüm Dalgalar
    Begüm Dalgalar
    Begüm Dalgalar is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as forward position. She is 185 cm tall and 69 kg weight. She is playing for Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 1998 in youth level and since 2005-06 in senior level...

  • Selin Ekiz
    Selin Ekiz
    Selin Ekiz is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as center position. She is 190 cm tall and 80 kg weights. She is playing for Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 2001 in youth level and since 2006-07 in senior level...

  • Korel Engin
    Korel Engin
    Korel Engin , aka Cori Enghusen, is U.S. born Turkish female basketball player at the center position. At 201 cm , she is the tallest member of the Turkish women's basketball national team....

      
  • Burcu Erbaş
    Burcu Erbas
    Burcu Erbaş is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as point guard. Burcu is 175 cm tall and 60 kg weights. She is playing for Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 2000 in youth level and since 2006-07 in senior level...

  • Seda Erdoğan
  • Duygu Fırat
    Duygu Firat
    Duygu Fırat is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as center position. Duygu is 188 cm tall and 74 kg weights. She is currently plays for Burhaniye Belediyespor on loan from Fenerbahçe İstanbul where he played since 2005. She also played...

  • Ecem Güler
    Ecem Güler
    Emel Ecem Güler is a Turkish basketball player. She plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as both small and power forward position. She is 187 cm tall and 75 kg weights. She has played for Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 2004 in youth level and since 2010 in senior level.-External links:**...

  • Gülşah Gümüşay
    Gülşah Gümüşay
    Dürdane Gülşah Gümüşay is a Turkish professional female basketball player. She is a small forward playing for Galatasaray Medical Park.-Awards/Achievements:*Turkish U18 National Team -2005, -2007...

  • Yasemin Horasan
    Yasemin Horasan
    Yasemin Horasan is a Turkish professional basketball player of Beşiktaş Cola Turka.-Career:Horasan played in the season 2002–2003 for Beşiktaş J.K. and was elected Most Valuable Player of Turkish Women's Basketball League including all domestic and foreign players...

  • Tuğçe İnöntepe
    Tugçe Inöntepe
    Tuğçe İnöntepe is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi on loan from Fenerbahçe Istanbul with her team-mate Tuğçe Murat....

  • Naile İvegin
  • Şaziye İvegin
    Saziye Ivegin
    Şaziye İvegin is a Turkish female basketball player. Nicknamed "Şaz" , the 1.80 m national plays forward. She currently plays for Galatasaray Medical Park....

  • Özge Kavurmacıoğlu
    Özge Kavurmacıoğlu
    Özge Kavurmacıoğlu is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as both small and power forward position. Özge is 187 cm tall and 77 kg weights. She is playing for Fenerbahçe İstanbul since 2006 in youth level and since 2010 in senior...

  • Ceyda Kozluca
    Ceyda Kozluca
    Ceyda Kozluca is a Turkish professional female basketball player. She is a shooting guard playing for Ceyhan Belediye.-Career:...

  • Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu
    Sebnem Kimyacioglu
    Şebnem Kimyacıoğlu is a player on the Turkish American Women's Basketball Team. She was born in Santa Clara, California, USA. She is an alumnus from Pinewood High School in California and graduated from Stanford before returning to Turkey...

  • Sariye Kumral
  • Tuğçe Murat
    Tugçe Murat
    Tuğçe Murat is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi on loan from Fenerbahçe İstanbul with her team-mate Tuğçe İnöntepe....

  • Nevin Nevlin
    Nevin Nevlin
    Kristen Michelle Newlin aka Nevin Nevlin is a Turkish American female basketball player at the center position who plays for Fenerbahçe Istanbul. She is 1.96 m and her primary position is center. Nevlin became a valuable member of a EuroLeague Women side of Fenerbahçe Istanbul...

      
  • Arzu Özyiğit
  • Tuğba Palazoğlu
    Tugba Palazoglu
    Tuğba Palazoğlu is a Turkish professional basketball player of Free Agent.-Honors: Galatasaray**Turkish Presidents Cup***Winners : 2007-2008**EuroCup Women***Winners : 2008-2009-External links:*...

  • Nalan Ramazanoğlu
    Nalan Ramazanoglu
    Nalan Ramazanoğlu , also known as Nalan Mete Ramazanoğlu, was born in istanbul-Turkey is a professional basketball player and captain of Fenerbahçe İstanbul and currently player of national team. She is 1.87 m tall and weighs 75 kg. Her name was Nalan Mete before getting married...

  • Kübra Siyahdemir
    Kübra Siyahdemir
    Kübra İmren Siyahdemir is a Turkish professional basketball player who played for Tarsus Belediyesi in 2010-11 season and transferred to Turkish Women's Basketball League champion Fenerbahçe Istanbul.-Honors: Galatasaray...

  • Yasemen Saylar
    Yasemen Saylar
    Yasemin Saylar is a Turkish professional female basketball player of Galatasaray Medical Park.-Honors:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Runners-up : 2007-08, 2009–10*Turkish Cup**Winners : 2009-10...

  • Esra Şencebe
    Esra Sencebe
    Esra Şencebe is a Turkish professional female basketball player of Beşiktaş Cola Turka.-Honors:*Turkish Women's Basketball League**Winners : 2003-04, 2005–06**Runners-up : 2004-05, 2007–08, 2009–10...

  • Devran Tanaçan
    Devran Tanaçan
    Devran Tanaçan is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul as center position...

  • Esmeral Tunçluer
    Esmeral Tunçluer
    Esmeral Özçelik Tunçluer is a Dutch-Turkish female basketball player for Fenerbahçe İstanbul. The national competitor plays in the guard position....

      
  • Birsel Vardarlı
    Birsel Vardarli
    Birsel Vardarlı is a Turkish female basketball player. The young national plays for Fenerbahçe İstanbul. She is 175 cm tall and 64 kg weight. The guard also played for Migrosspor between 2005-07....

  • Aylin Yıldızoğlu
    Aylin Yildizoglu
    Aylin Yıldızoğlu is a Turkish female basketball player.-Career:Aylin played 13 years for Ceyhan Municipality and then for Botaş Spor. In 2003, she won three titles with Botaş Spor in one season, Turkish Women's Basketball League championship, Turkey Cup and President’s Cup...

  • Nevriye Yılmaz
    Nevriye Yilmaz
    Nevriye Yılmaz is a Turkish-Bulgarian professional female basketball player of Fenerbahçe Istanbul. Yılmaz, who grew up in Bulgaria as a member of Turkish minority, moved to İstanbul, Turkey with her parents when she was nine years old.In 1997, she won the World High School Basketball Championship...

      
  • Nilay Yiğit
    Nilay Yigit
    Nilay Yiğit is a Turkish professional female basketball player of Beşiktaş Cola Turka. She is marrieded with Fenerbahçe Istanbul volleyball player Cengizhan Kartaltepe on 5 June 2010...

  • Serap Yücesir
  • Müjde Yüksel

Penny Taylor  

  • Marina Kress
    Marina Kress
    Marina Kress , is a Belarusian professional basketball player currently playing for Botaş SK of the TKBL. -Honors: Galatasaray**Turkish Presidents Cup***Winners : 2007-2008**EuroCup Women...

  • Sviatlana Volnaya
    Sviatlana Volnaya
    Sviatlana Volnaya is a Belarusian women's basketball player. She plays for Dynamo Moscow as guard and forward position. She is 187 cm tall and 72 kg weights...

  • Yelena Leuchanka
    Yelena Leuchanka
    Yelena Leuchanka is a Belarusian professional women's basketball player with the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA in the United States. Prior to joining the Dream for their inaugural 2008 season, Leuchanka was a member of the Charlotte Sting in 2006 and Washington Mystics in 2007. She began her college...


Gergena Baranzova
Gergena Baranzova
Gergana 'Gigi' Branzova Erdenay is a former professional basketball player from Bulgaria. Member of Bulgarian National team. She began her career in Nephtohimik, Burgas...

  
Tammy Sutton-Brown
Tammy Sutton-Brown
Tamara "Tammy" Kim Sutton-Brown is a Canadian professional women's basketball player in the WNBA. Her primary position is center.-High school years:...


Korana Longin-Zanze
Hana Horáková
Alba Torrens
Alba Torrens
Alba Torrens Salom is a Spanish female basketball player at the Shooting guard position who plays for Galatasaray Medical Park.-National team:...


Linda Frohlich
Linda Frohlich
Linda Fröhlich is a German professional basketball player in the WNBA.Considered the best women’s player in Germany, Fröhlich enters her fifth WNBA training camp and first in Indiana. She is a versatile power forward and her game has improved during the past two seasons overseas in Italy and...


Émilie Gomis
Émilie Gomis
Émilie Gomis is a French-Senegalese professional basketball player currently playing point guard position for French club ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq and also played for Fenerbahçe of the TWBL league. She wears the number 4....

  

  • Andrea Nagy
    Andrea Nagy
    Andrea Nagy is a retired professional basketball player. After a stand-out career playing at Florida International University, Nagy was drafted into the ABL before finishing her career in the WNBA playing as a point guard....

  • Anna Vajda
    Anna Vajda
    Anna Vajda is a professional basketball player from Perfumerías Avenida from Spain. She is 1.90 m height and plays as power forward.Vajda is the best player of the Hungary national women's basketball team...



  • Shay Doron
    Shay Doron
    Shay Doron is an Israeli professional basketball player in the Israeli league. She plays for Elitzur Ramla.-Biography:Doron was born in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, to Yehuda and Tamari Doron...



  • Elīna Babkina
    Elina Babkina
    Elīna Babkina is a Latvian women's basketball player currently playing for Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Latvia women's national basketball team....

  • Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota
  • Zane Tamane
    Zane Tamane
    Zane Tamane is a Latvian women's basketball player currently playing for Fenerbahçe Istanbul and Latvia women's national basketball team....


Gintarė Petronytė
Gintarė Petronytė
Gintarė Petronytė is a Lithuanian professional female basketball player. She Played center for Galatasaray Medical Park.-Career:...



  • Elena Baranova
    Elena Baranova
    Elena Viktorovna Baranova is a Russian professional basketball player. She is a former Women's National Basketball Association player, where she became the first player from Europe in 1997 WNBA inaugural season, the first All-Star from Russia in 2001 and played for the New York Liberty until the...

  • Epiphanny Prince
    Epiphanny Prince
    Epiphanny Prince is an American basketball player for Rutgers University Women's team and Galatasaray Medical Park from Turkey. She is best known for scoring 113 points for Murry Bergtraum in a high school game in 2006, breaking a girls' national prep record previously held by Hall of Famer Cheryl...

      


  • Milica Dabović
    Milica Dabovic
    Milica Dabović is a Serbian professional basketball player. She plays for ŽKK Partizan.-External links:****...

  • Ivona Jerković
    Ivona Jerkovic
    Ivona Jerković is a Serbian women's basketball player. She plays for ŽKK Partizan in Serbia. She also played for Fenerbahçe İstanbul and Migrosspor in Turkey. She is 200 cms and plays center position....

  • Ivana Matović
    Ivana Matović
    Ivana Matović is a Serbian female basketball player who plays for Fenerbahçe Istanbul. She is 197 cms and plays center position...

  • Ivanka Matić
    Ivanka Matić
    Ivanka Matić is a Serbian professional female basketball player. She played center for Galatasaray Medical Park.-Career:...

  • Jelena Spirić
    Jelena Spiric
    Jelena Spirić is a Serbian women's basketball forward at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She is also a member of the Serbia women's national basketball team.-Sources:* *...


  • Matee Ajavon
    Matee Ajavon
    Matee Ajavon is a Liberian American player in the WNBA for the Washington Mystics. A 5'8" guard, Ajavon was chosen by the Houston Comets as the fifth overall draft pick in the 2008 WNBA Draft.-Early life:...

  • Chantelle Anderson
    Chantelle Anderson
    Chantelle Denise Anderson, pronounced "shawn-tell", is a retired collegiate and professional basketball player who has played in the Women's National Basketball Association and overseas.-Personal:...

  • Seimone Augustus
    Seimone Augustus
    Seimone Augustus is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the Minnesota Lynx, WBC Spartak Moscow Region and the US national team...

  • Kara Braxton
    Kara Braxton
    Kara Liana Braxton is an American professional basketball player for the New York Liberty in the WNBA.-Early life:...

  • Kiesha Brown
    Kiesha Brown
    Kiesha Brown is an American professional basketball player.-High school:White attended Woodward Academy in Atlanta, where she was named a High School All-American by the WBCA...

  • Tamika Catchings
    Tamika Catchings
    Tamika Devonne Catchings is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the WNBA and Turkish team Galatasaray. She is a prolific scorer close to and far from the basket, as well as a capable rebounder, ball handler, and defender. After playing at Adlai E...

  • Tina Charles
    Tina Charles
    Tina Charles is an English singer, who achieved success as a disco artist in the mid-to-late 1970s, selling 36 million records within a few years. Her most successful single was the #1 hit "I Love to Love " in 1976...

  • Monique Currie
    Monique Currie
    Monique Currie is a WNBA basketball player who plays for the Washington Mystics.Currie was traded from the Chicago Sky during the 2007 season in exchange for Chasity Melvin...

  • Clarissa Davis
    Clarissa Davis
    Clarissa Davis is former Texas women's basketball All-American, who is also known as Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil. She is a National Player of the Year, Olympic and pro standout, and was inducted into The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in April 2006...

  • Bethany Donaphin
    Bethany Donaphin
    Bethany Donaphin , is an American female basketball player. She played for New York Liberty as forward during the 2004-2005 season. She is 190 cms tall and 85 kg weight. She currently plays for Famila Schio in Italy and played for Fenerbahçe İstanbul in Turkey .She played for Stanford...

  • Katie Douglas
    Katie Douglas
    Kathryn Elizabeth “Katie” Douglas is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever in the WNBA...

  • Summer Erb
    Summer Erb
    Summer Erb is an American female basketball player. She played for Charlotte Sting in 2002 as center. She is 198 cms tall and 109 kg weight. She also played for Bursa Yıldırım and Fenerbahçe İstanbul in Turkey....

  • Marie Ferdinand-Harris
  • Sylvia Fowles
    Sylvia Fowles
    Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky in the WNBA. She is 6 ft 6 in tall and weighs 200 lbs .-Personal:...

  • Andrea Gardner
    Andrea Gardner
    Andrea Gardner Andrea Gardner Andrea Gardner (born December 23, 1979 in Southeast, Washington, D.C., is an American basketball player. She is 191 cm (6'3") tall and weighs 86 kg (190 lb)....

  • Laura Harper
    Laura Harper (basketball)
    Laura Harper is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, currently playing for the San Antonio Silver Stars. Laura was the 10th pick in the 2009 WNBA draft. Harper's basketball pedigree includes her father, Haviland Harper, who played at George Washington University in the 1970s...

  • Vanessa Hayden
    Vanessa Hayden
    Vanessa L'asonya Hayden-Johnson is a former American college and professional basketball player who was a center in the Women's National Basketball Association for five seasons in the 2000s...

  • Doneeka Hodges
    Doneeka Hodges
    Doneeka Lewis, née Hodges , is an American professional basketball player most recently for the Tulsa Shock of the WNBA. The 5-9 guard, was drafted with the 25th overall pick in the 2004 WNBA Draft for the Los Angeles Sparks, out of LSU....

  • Ebony Hoffman
    Ebony Hoffman
    Ebony Vernice Hoffman is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks in the WNBA. She currently plays and won the championship with Fenerbahçe İstanbul in Turkey...

  • Alexis Hornbuckle
    Alexis Hornbuckle
    Alexis Kay'ree Hornbuckle is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-High school years:...

  • Katrina McClain Johnson
    Katrina McClain Johnson
    Katrina McClain Johnson, born September 19, 1965 in Charleston, South Carolina, is a retired American basketball player.-College years:...

  • Shannon Johnson
    Shannon Johnson
    Shannon Regina Johnson is an American basketball player who last played for the Seattle Storm in the WNBA.-Career:...

  • Vickie Johnson
    Vickie Johnson
    Vickie Johnson , is a WNBA player who played for the San Antonio Silver Stars until her retirement in 2009. She grew up in Coushatta, Louisiana.-High School Years:Johnson was a letterman in basketball and track and field...

  • Ivory Latta
    Ivory Latta
    Ivory Latta is an American professional basketball player. A 5'6" guard noted for her three-point shooting and on-court enthusiasm, she played college basketball for the North Carolina Tar Heels...

  • Erlana Larkins
    Erlana Larkins
    Erlana Larkins is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA.-High school:Larkins played for The Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, Florida, where she was named a WBCA All-American...

  • Doneeka Lewis
  • Stacey Lovelace-Tolbert
    Stacey Lovelace-Tolbert
    Stacey Lovelace-Tolbert is an American professional basketball player in the WNBA, who played in the WNBA.Lovelace-Tolbert attended college at Purdue University and graduated in 1996. On May 2, 2000 she was assigned with the Indiana Fever later in 2000 Lovelace-Tolbert played with the Seattle Storm...

  • Angel McCoughtry
    Angel McCoughtry
    Angel Lajuane McCoughtry is a professional basketball player who completed her college career at the University of Louisville in 2009. She was selected first overall by the Atlanta Dream in the 2009 WNBA Draft and is considered its franchise player...

  • Danielle McCulley
    Danielle McCulley
    Danielle McCulley, is a former professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever between 2000–02 and Seattle Storm between 2002-04 in the Women's National Basketball Association.-NCAA Career:...

  • Taj McWilliams-Franklin
  • Coco Miller
    Coco Miller
    -External links:**...

  • Kelly Miller
    Kelly Miller (basketball player)
    -External links:***...

  • Courtney Paris
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Italic players still plays in the league

External links

Turkish Basketball League Official Website Turkish Basketball Federation Official Website
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