# Saliha Şahin

Saliha Şahin (born 5 November 1998) is a Turkish professional volleyball player. She is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 68 kg (150 lb) and plays in the Outside Hitter position. She last played for Eczacıbaşı Dynavit in Istanbul. She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.

## Club career

Saliha Şahin is 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) tall at 68 kg (150 lb), and plays in the Outside Hitter position. She started her sport career in the academy of Karayolları SK in her hometown Ankara in 2015. In 2018, she transferred to the Istanbul-based Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, formerly Eczacıbaşı Vitra. She was loaned out to her former club for the 2018–19 season. In 2019, she won the Spor Toto Champions Cup with Eczacıbaşı Dynavit. She took part at the 2019 FIVB Club World Championship in Shaoxing, China, where she won the silver medal. In the 2019–20 season, she was laoned out to Sarıyer Bld. SK. She experienced her club's champion title at the 2020–21 AXA Sigorta Champions Cup. She won also the 2021–22 Women's CEV Cup. She won the bronze medal at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship in Antalya, Turkey.
On 22 May 2023, she announced that she left Eczacıbaşı Dynavit, where she played for four years. She was loaned out to the Polish club KPS Chemik Police to play in the 2023–24 season Tauron Liga.

## International career

Saliha won the gold medal with the Turkey U-17 team at the 2015 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan.
She played for the Turkey U-19 team to play at the 2016 U19 European Championship in Nitra, Slovakia, where she took the bronze medal.
She played in the Turkey U-20 team, which placed fourth at the 2017 FIVB U20 World Championship in Mexico.
She was part of the Turkey U-23 team, which became champion at the 2017 FIVB U23 World Championship in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Şahin became a member of the Turkey national team. She won the silver medal at the 2018 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Nanjing, China. She played in the bronze medalist team at the 2018 Mediterranean Games in Tarragona, Spain. At the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Nations League in Ankara, Turkey, her team placed fourth. She was part of the national team, which placed eight at the 2022 FIVB World Championship in Poland and the Netherlands. She won the gold medal at the 2023 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League in Arlington, Texas, United States.

## Personal life

Saliha Şahin was born in Ankara, Turkey on 5 November 1998. She has two sisters. Her two-years younger sister Elif is also a professional volleyball player in the Setter position playing in the same club.

## Honours
### Club
#### Eczacıbaşı Dynavit
##### Turkish Women's Volleyball League

    2021–22
    2022–23

##### Turkish Women's Volleyball Cup

    2020–21
    2021–22

##### Turkish Women's Volleyball Super Cup

    2019, 2020
    2021–22

##### CEV Women's Champions League

    2022–23

##### FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship

    2019
    2018, 2022

##### Women's CEV Cup

    2021–22

### International
#### European Youth Olympic Festival

    2015

#### Women's Junior European Volleyball Championship

    2016

#### FIVB Volleyball Women's U23 World Championship

    2017

#### Mediterranean Games

    2018

#### FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League

    2023
    2018