Gülşah Gümüşay

Gülşah Gümüşay — Biography

Gülşah Gümüşay is a 1.80 m Turkish basketball player who played small forward for clubs including Galatasaray and Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyespor. She made her name in the national youth teams, wore the national jersey 105 times and won the Turkish Cup twice. On 11 August 2021, while with Adana BK, she announced on Instagram the end of her active career.

She started out in the Botaş academy. She played for the Turkey under-18s in 2005 and 2007 and at the under-18 European Championships in 2005 and 2006, averaging 13.1 points a game at the 2006 tournament in Tenerife; she played in the league semi-finals in 2006 and 2007; in 2008 she was called up to the senior national team and the league's all-star game. Her standout year was 2009: that summer she played for the senior national team at EuroBasket Women in Latvia, and at the under-20 European Championship in Poland she averaged more than 15 points a game, placing among the tournament's top ten scorers. The same year she was nominated for FIBA's award for the best young female player in Europe.

She moved to Galatasaray in 2010 and in 2010-11 appeared in 19 league games, averaging 4.8 points and 1.5 rebounds. In later years she played for Canik Belediyespor, Homend Antakya and, from 2015, Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyespor, finishing her career at Adana BK.