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.[1][2]
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.[3]
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.[5] On 1 June 2023, she left VakıfBank S.K.[4]
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.[3]
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.[6] 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.[7]
