Cansu Özbay

Cansu Özbay
Cansu Özbay
	Cansu Özbay for Vakıfbank Istanbul (April 2018)
Personal information
Born	17 October 1996 (age 27); İzmir, Turkey
Height	182 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Spike	285 cm (112 in)
Block	284 cm (112 in)
Volleyball information
Position	Setter
Current club	Vakıfbank Istanbul
National team
2013	Turkey girls' U18
2015	Turkey women's U20
2017–	Turkey
Honours
Women’s volleyball
Representing Turkey
World Cup
FIVB Nations League
European Championship

Cansu Özbay (Turkish pronunciation: [dʒɑnsu ˈœzbɑj] ^ⓘ; born 17 October 1996) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She plays in the setter position. Currently, she plays for Vakıfbank Istanbul.^[1] She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

Playing career

Club

Cansu Özbay started her volleyball career in Göztepe than continued in the youth development team of Arkas Spor at her hometown in Izmir. She then transferred to the Istanbul-based club Beşiktaş .K.^[2] In January 2015, Özbay was loaned out from her club Beşiktaş JK to Nilüfer Belediyespor in Bursa, where she played the second half of the 2014–15 Turkish Women's Volleyball League season.^[3] At the end of the season, she returned to her relegated club to play in the 2015–16 Second League season. Her team finished the season as champion, and was promoted to the First League. For the 2016–17 League season, she was transferred by Vakıfbank Istanbul.^[2]^[4] She succeeded Naz Aydemir Akyol as setter in the team.^[5]^[6] She enjoyed her team's league champion title in the 2016–17 and 2017–18 League seasons. She was awarded the title of "Best Setter" of the 2017–18 season's final series.^[7]

Özbay participated at the 2016 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship held in Metro Manila, Philippines, where her team Vakıfbank Istanbul placed third. The next year, her team became champion of the 2017 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Kobe, Japan.

Club	From	To
Arkas Spor	2009–2010	2013–2014
Beşiktaş JK	2014–2015	2014–2015
Nilüfer BS	2015	2015
Beşiktaş JK	2015–2016	2015–2016
Vakıfbank Istanbul	2016–2023

International

Özbay was part of the Turkey girls' U18 team at the 2013 CEV Youth Volleyball European Championship – Girls held in Serbia^[8] and at the 2013 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship held in Thailand.^[9]

She was a member of the Turkey women's U20 team, and played at the 2015 FIVB Volleyball Women's U20 World Championship held in Puerto Rico.

She competed at the 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship held in Azerbaijan and Georgia,^[10] where the Turkey women's team ranked third. She was part of the national team at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League,^[11] which became silver medalist after losing to the United States in the final.^[12]