Inky Ajanaku
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 Ajanaku in 2013 | |||||||||
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| Full name | Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku | ||||||||
| Nationality |  United States | ||||||||
| Hometown | Tulsa, Oklahoma | ||||||||
| Height | 6-3 | ||||||||
| College / University | Stanford Cardinal team. | ||||||||
| Volleyball information | |||||||||
| Position | Middle blocker | ||||||||
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Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku,better known asInky Ajanaku,is an Americanvolleyballplayer fromTulsa, Oklahoma.Besides hercollegiatecareer, she won a gold medal at the2015 Pan American Games.She plays as a middle blocker.
Career
[edit]Ajanaku attendedBishop Kelley High Schoolin Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2012 she joined theStanford Cardinal team.She won a gold medal with the United States team at the2015 Pan American GamesinTorontobut sustained a knee injury during the competition, so she missed the 2015 collegiate season.[1]She won the2016 NCAA Division I Tournamentwith the Cardinal as a redshirt senior and was named the Most Outstanding Player. She was a member of the AVCA All-America First-Team in 2013, 2014 and 2016.[2][1]She was aHonda Sports Awardfinalist in 2015,[3]and went on to win the Award as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball athlete in 2017.[4][5]In 2017 she was nominated for theBest Female College Athlete ESPY Award.[6]
After her college career, Anjanaku joinedVolero Zurichfor the 2017–18 season[7]but missed the Swiss Championships because of an injury.[8]In May 2017, she announced that she would leave Voleo Zurich and joinGalatasaray S.K.,but the contract was cancelled by Galatasaray on September 18.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ab"Inky Ajanaku".TeamUSA.org.United States Olympic Committee.Archived fromthe originalon October 4, 2018.RetrievedOctober 3,2018.
- ^"Inky Ajanaku Biography".volleymob.com.RetrievedOctober 3,2018.
- ^"Washington's Vansant Repeats As Honda Volleyball Sport Award Winner - CWSA".www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com.RetrievedMay 1,2016.
- ^Athletics, Stanford."Stanford's Ajanaku earns volleyball's Honda Sports Award".www.paloaltoonline.com.Retrieved2020-03-27.
- ^"Ajanaku of Stanford Named the Honda Sport Award Winner for Volleyball".CWSA.2017-01-05.Retrieved2020-03-27.
- ^"Canada's Kadeisha Buchanan gets ESPY nomination for best female college athlete".CBC News.The Canadian Press.June 22, 2017.Archivedfrom the original on January 11, 2018.RetrievedApril 3,2018.
- ^"Mittelblockerin aus den USA".volerozuerich.ch(in German). July 5, 2017.
- ^ab"Former Stanford Star Inky Ajanaku's Contract Terminated By Galatasaray".September 20, 2018.RetrievedOctober 3,2018.