Tuğçe Canıtez

Tuğçe Canıtez — Biography

Tuğçe Canıtez is a 1.90 m power forward who spent nine seasons at Fenerbahçe, won five league titles there, and played at the Olympics with the Turkish women's national team. She also served as team captain. On August 29, 2023, she announced that she had retired from professional basketball.

She started playing in İzmir and continued in the Ceyhan Belediyespor youth system in 2005, then decided at a young age to play college basketball in the United States. At North Idaho College she averaged 15.2 points and 9.4 rebounds over two seasons before moving to Westmont College, with which she won a national title in 2012-13 and was named player of the year in 2012. She wore the Fenerbahçe shirt from 2013 to 2022, winning the Women's Basketball Super League five times, the Turkish Cup four times and the Presidential Cup four times, and she was Turkish Cup MVP in 2020. In July 2022 she moved to Hatay Büyükşehir Belediyespor, and on November 28, 2022, to Galatasaray.

For Turkey she played at under-18 level in 2006-2008 and under-20 level in 2009-2010; at the 2010 Under-20 European Championship she averaged 9.9 rebounds per game, the second-best figure in the tournament. With the senior team she took part in the 2012 Olympic qualifying tournament, played at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, and won a bronze medal at the 2013 European Championship in France.