Didem Sarıca

Didem Sarıca — Biography

Didem Sarıca, who also used the married surname Süer, is a retired Turkish basketball player, 1.88 m tall. Her peak years came at BOTAŞ, with whom she won the Women's Basketball Super League twice and the Turkish Cup three times, and finished runner-up in the Ronchetti Cup in 2000-01. She also wore the shirt of the Turkish national team at the 2007 European Championship.

She began her career at İzmir Büyükşehir Belediyespor and in 1999-00 won the Turkish Women's Basketball League title with Güre Belediyespor. Before the 2000-01 season she moved to BOTAŞ; in her first season there she won the Turkish Women's Basketball League (now the Women's Basketball Super League) and the Turkish Cup and reached the Ronchetti Cup final in Europe. The team opened the next season as Presidential Cup winners and took the Turkish Cup for a second time, and in 2002-03 it topped league and cup again. In later years she played for Ceyhanspor, Mersin BŞB and Tarsus Belediyespor (now Adana ASKİ); she spent 2007-08 at Galatasaray, then returned to Tarsus in 2008-09 and to BOTAŞ in 2009-10.

In 2010-11 she signed with First League side TED Ankara Kolejliler and finished the season as league champion. She then played two seasons for Samsun Canik Belediyespor and after that for Konak Belediyespor; she spent 2014-15 with Antalya'nın Yıldızları in the Second League and ended her career at Urla Belediyesi in 2016. Her husband is also a basketball player.