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Place of Birth: Tarsus, Turkey
About Arzu Özyiğit
- Arzu Özyigit Bildirir (born Arzu Özyigit on October 16, 1972 in Tarsus, Turkey), is a Turkish female basketball player.
- The 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) international competitor plays in the center position. Özyigit started basketball in 1984 with Botas Spor in Adana.
- After she played with several clubs like IÜSK, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Özyigit moved to the Greek club Panserraikos in 2002.
- Özyigit returned home and played for Fenerbahçe, Kocaeli BB and Besiktas.She was 5-time member of the Turkish girls’ and 190-time member of the Turkish women’s national team, a record in the country.
- Özyigit won 18 champion title with her clubs.
- She is the first player in Turkey, who won the championship at four different teams.
- The latest one with Besiktas as the team’s captain in 2005.
- She transferred to Mersin BB team in July 2005. Özyigit was also captain of the gold medal-winning team at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain.
- She could not play at the final match because of complications with her pregnancy, but the team squad dedicated the medal to her. In 2009, she became trainer of the Turkey under-20 women's national basketball team that participated at the 2009 FIBA U20 championships held in Gdynia, Poland.
- She served in 2010 also as trainer at a basketball school in Kartal, Istanbul.
- In November 2010, Arzu Özyigit returned to active sports transferring to Canik Belediyespor, a club in Samsun Province, which plays in the Turkish Women's Basketball Second League (TKB2L).In June 2003, she married to businessman Mustafa Bildirir.
- He owns an Italian cuisine restaurant "Pulcinella" at Kozyatagi neighborhood in Kadiköy district of Istanbul, where she also helps out whenever she finds time.
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