Zehra Güneş


Zehra Güneş is a Turkish female volleyball player. She is tall at and plays in the middle blocker position. Currently, she plays for Vakıfbank Istanbul and is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

Playing career

Club

In the 2016–17 Turkish Women's Volleyball League season, Güneş was loaned out to Beşiktaş J.K., another women's volleyball team. The next season, she returned to her home club. She enjoyed her first league champion title in the 2017–18 season with Vakıfbank Istanbul. She was awarded the "Vestel Special Prize" of the 2017–18 Vestel Venus Sultans League, which is the Turkish top-level volleyball league sponsored by the electronics and appliances manufacturing company Vestel.
She participated at the 2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League with her team Vakıfbank Istanbul, which became champion.
ClubFromTo
Vakıfbank Istanbul2011–20122013–2014
Istanbul BBSK2014–20152014–2015
Vakıfbank Istanbul2015–20162015–2016
Beşiktaş J.K.2016–20172016–2017
Vakıfbank Istanbul2017–2018–

International

Güneş played at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in Georgia. She took part at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Girls' U18 World Championship in Peru, and was awarded the Best Middle Blocker title. Güneş played at the 2016 FIVB World Grand Prix. She was a member of the Turkey women's U20 team, and took part at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship in Mexico, where she was named one of the Best Middle Blockers. She played for the Turkey women's U23 team at the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship in Slovenia, where her team won a champion title.
In January 2017, she was invited to the Turkey women's team, and was admitted to the team in March 2018.Currently, she plays at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League as part of the Turkish team.

Honours

Club

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2018 Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup,
2017–18 Turkish Women's Volleyball League,
2017–18 CEV Women's Champions League,
2019 FIVB Club World Championship – Bronze medal, with VakıfBank

National team