Seda Demir

Seda Demir
Born June 21, 1994
Altındağ, Ankara, Turkey
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Right
Czech Extraliga team HC Litvinov
National team  Turkey
Playing career 2007–present

Seda Demir (born June 21, 1994) is a Turkish women's ice hockey player. Curremtly, she is a member of HC Litvínov team in Litvínov, Czech Republic playing in the forward position. She takes part in the Turkey women's national ice hockey team. The 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall woman at 60 kg (130 lb) shoots left handed.[1][2]

Seda Demir was born in Altındağ, Ankara on June 26, 1994.[1]

Career

Club

Seda Demir started her ice hockey career at the age of fourteen in Başkent Yıldızları in her hometown.[3][4][5] There, she played three seasons.[3][4] Then, she moved to Milenyum Paten SK and finally to Genç Ankaralılar, where she enjoyed championships.[3][4] With Milenyum Paten SK, Demir took part at the 2012–13 IIHF European Women's Champions Cup - Group B matches.[3][4]

In 2012, she won the "International Tachov Women Challenge Cup" in the Czech Republic with her team, she was the captain of.[3][4] In October 2013, Seda Demir was transferred by the Czech Extraliga-team HC Litvínov.[1][3][4][5][6] She became so the first ever Turkish women's ice hockey player to join a foreign team.[3][4][5][6]

Played for Istanbul Buz Korsanları, she was named Most Valuable Player of the 2013–14 Turkish Ice Hockey Women's League (TBHBL).[7]

International

She was called up for the Turkey national team, and played in the 2011 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships – Division V in Sofia, Bulgaria and 2013 IIHF Women's World Championship Division II Group B qualification matches in Izmir, Turkey.[4][8][9][10][11] She scored two goals against Bulgaria in the World championship match.[10][11]

Honors

Individual

Club

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Hockey - Seda Demir". Point Streak. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  2. ↑ "IIHF Ice Hockey Women's World Championship Div II Group B - Team Roster". IIHF. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 "Buzda tarihi transfer". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2013-10-13. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 "Bayan buz hokeycinin büyük başarısı". İnternet Haber (in Turkish). 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Tarihi transfer". Sabah (in Turkish). 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Tarcan, Pınar (2013-12-07). "Ne orak ne de süpürge bu bir hokey sopası!". Vatan (in Turkish). Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "2013-2014 Sezonu TBHF Kadınlar Ligi 1'incisi Milenyum Paten SK Oldu" (in Turkish). Türkiye Buz Hokeyi Federasyonu. 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-04-02.
  8. ↑ "İşte 21 kişilik milli kadro!". İnternet Spor (in Turkish). 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  9. ↑ "Buz Hokeyi Milli Takımı'ndan tarihi galibiyet". Haber 7 (in Turkish). 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 [backPid=10&cHash=03b0b98d0f "Turkey downs Bulgaria"]. IIHF. 2012-12-08. Retrieved 2014-03-16.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Women's World Championship Division II Group B - Round Robin Game 1". IIHF. 2012-12-07. Retrieved 2014-03-16.