American volleyball player
Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku , better known as Inky Ajanaku , is an American volleyball player from Tulsa, Oklahoma . Besides her collegiate career, she won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games . She plays as a middle blocker.
Career
Ajanaku attended Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2012 she joined the Stanford Cardinal team . She won a gold medal with the United States team at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto but sustained a knee injury during the competition, so she missed the 2015 collegiate season.[1] She won the 2016 NCAA Division I Tournament with 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 a Honda Sports Award finalist 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 the Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award .[6]
After her college career, Anjanaku joined Volero Zurich for 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 join Galatasaray S.K. , but the contract was cancelled by Galatasaray on September 18.[8]
References
^ a b "Inky Ajanaku" . TeamUSA.org . United States Olympic Committee . Archived from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
^ "Inky Ajanaku Biography" . volleymob.com . Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
^ "Washington's Vansant Repeats As Honda Volleyball Sport Award Winner - CWSA" . www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com . Retrieved May 1, 2016 .
^ Athletics, Stanford. "Stanford's Ajanaku earns volleyball's Honda Sports Award" . www.paloaltoonline.com . Retrieved 2020-03-27 .
^ "Ajanaku of Stanford Named the Honda Sport Award Winner for Volleyball" . CWSA . 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2020-03-27 .
^ "Canada's Kadeisha Buchanan gets ESPY nomination for best female college athlete" . CBC News . The Canadian Press . June 22, 2017. Archived from the original on January 11, 2018. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
^ "Mittelblockerin aus den USA" . volerozuerich.ch (in German). July 5, 2017.
^ a b "Former Stanford Star Inky Ajanaku's Contract Terminated By Galatasaray" . September 20, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018 .
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