Naile İvegin

Naile İvegin — Biography

Naile İvegin is a power forward who carries two European Championship medals from her years with the Turkish women's national team: silver in 2011 and bronze in 2013. Standing 1.85 m tall, she played for several clubs in the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League and later in her career also for Antalya Toroslar Basketbol. She also uses the surname Çırak since her marriage.

Born in Niksar in Tokat Province, the daughter of a basketball player, she took up the sport in elementary school on the same day as her older sister Şaziye and her sister Ayşe, and the three played together at the Adana-based club Botaşspor. During her eight years with Botaş she won two national youth titles (1999 and 2000), finished second in the Ronchetti Cup in 2000, won the Turkish championship in 2001, and took both the Turkish Cup and the Turkish Presidents Cup in 2002 and 2003. She moved to Beşiktaş in 2008 and played there for two seasons. After two seasons at Tarsus Belediyespor she returned to Botaş, and in 2012-13 she signed with Homend Antakya Belediyespor.

She was in the national squad at EuroBasket Women 2009 in Latvia, where Turkey finished ninth. Two years later the team took silver in Poland, and in 2013 bronze in France. Her older sister Şaziye and her sister Ayşe are also professional basketball players.