Saliha Şahin
Turkish volleyball player
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Saliha Şahin (born 5 November 1998) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 68 kg (150 lb) and plays in the Outside Hitter position. After four years with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit and a single season in Poland with KPS Chemik Police, she has come back in Istanbul plated for Beşiktaş and Zeren S.K She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.
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| Nationality | Turkish | ||||
| Born | 5 November 1998 Ankara, Turkey | ||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||
| Spike | 304 cm (120 in) | ||||
| Block | 294 cm (116 in) | ||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||
| Current club | Fenerbahçe | ||||
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Club career
Saliha Şahin is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 68 kg (150 lb), and plays in the Outside Hitter position.[1] She started her sport career in the academy of Karayolları SK in her hometown Ankara in 2015.[2] In 2018, she transferred to the Istanbul-based Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, formerly Eczacıbaşı Vitra.[1] She was loaned out to her former club for the 2018–19 season.[2] In 2019, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit.[1] She took part at the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship in Shaoxing, China, where she won the silver medal.[1] In the 2019–20 season, she was laoned out to Sarıyer Bld. SK.[2] She experienced her club's champion title at the 2020–21 AXA Sigorta Champions Cup. She won also the 2021–22 Women's CEV Cup.[1] She won the bronze medal at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Antalya, Turkey.[3]
On 22 May 2023, she announced that she left Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, where she played for four years.[4] She was loaned out to the Polish club KPS Chemik Police to play in the 2023–24 season Tauron Liga.[5][6]
For the 2024-2025 season she played for Beşiktaş.
On June 2nd, Ankara based club, Zeren Spor Kulübü announced the signing of Şahin for the 2025-2026 season. [7]
Saliha is set to return to Istanbul to play for Fenerbahçe for the 2026/2027 season.[8]
International career
Saliha won the gold medal with the Turkey U-17 team at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan.[6]
She played for the Turkey U-19 team to play at the 2016 U19 European Championship in Nitra, Slovakia, where she took the bronze medal.[9]
She played in the Turkey U-20 team, which placed fourth at the 2017 FIVB U20 World Championship in Mexico.[1][10]
She was part of the Turkey U-23 team, which became champion at the 2017 FIVB U23 World Championship in Ljubljana, Slovenia.[1][11]
Şahin became a member of the Turkey national team. She won the silver medal at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China.[1] She played in the bronze medalist team at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain. At the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ankara, Turkey, her team placed fourth.[12] She was part of the national team, which placed eight at the 2022 FIVB World Championship in Poland and the Netherlands.[13] She won the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in Arlington, Texas, United States.[14]
Personal life
Honours
Club
Eczacıbaşı Dynavit
- Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup
2020–21
2021–22
- Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup
2019, 2020- 2021–22
