Nevriye Yılmaz
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| No. 11 – Galatasaray | |||||||||||||
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| Position | Center | ||||||||||||
| League |
TKBL Euroleague Women |
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||
| Born |
June 16, 1980 Plovdiv, Bulgaria |
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| Nationality | Turkish-Bulgarian | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 192 lb (87 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1997–present | ||||||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||||||
| 1997–99 | I.U.S.B.K. | ||||||||||||
| 1999–01 | Galatasaray | ||||||||||||
| 2001–02 | Apollon Ptolemaida | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Academic Plovdiv | ||||||||||||
| 2002–03 | Termini di Mareze | ||||||||||||
| 2003–04 | La Spezia Basket | ||||||||||||
| 2004–05 | Pool Comense Como | ||||||||||||
| 2005–12 | Fenerbahçe | ||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Galatasaray | ||||||||||||
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| All tournament team (EuroBasket Women 2011) | |||||||||||||
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Nevriye Yılmaz (pronounced [ˈnevɾiːye jɯɫˈmaz]; born June 16, 1980) is a Turkish retired professional female basketball player of Galatasaray. Yılmaz, who grew up in Bulgaria in a Turkish family, moved to İstanbul, Turkey with her parents when she was nine years old.
In 1997, she won the World High School Basketball Championship with Boğaziçi Lisesi.
She began her basketball career with I.U.S.B.K. (1997–99) and then she played Galatasaray (1999-01) where she won her first Turkish Championship in Turkey.
She moved first to the Greek team Apollon Ptolemaida (2001–02) then later to the Bulgarian team Academic Plovdiv (2002). Yılmaz moved then to Italy to play for Termini di Mareze (2002–03), La Spezia Basket (2003–04) and Pool Comense Como (2004–05).
Yılmaz is the first Turkish woman to play in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In 1999, she participated in the Charlotte Sting's training camp, but was released before the season started. In 2000, she attended the training camp for the now-defunct Miami Sol, but was also released prior to the start of the regular season. Then in 2003, Yılmaz signed a free agent contract with the Phoenix Mercury and played five games for them. The following year, 2004, she played seven games for the San Antonio Silver Stars.
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