- Korel Engin
-
Korel Engin Position Center Height 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Weight 231 lb (105 kg) League Turkish Women's Basketball League Team Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi Born April 8, 1980
Washington, United StatesNationality 
United States 
TurkeyPro career 2003–present Career history Migrosspor (2004-2005)
Fenerbahçe (2005-2006)
Botaşspor (2006-2007)
Gospic (2007-2008)
BC Moscow (2008)
Galatasaray (2008-2009)
Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi (2009-)Korel Engin (born April 8, 1980 in Bothell, Washington), aka Cori Enghusen, is U.S. born Turkish female basketball player at the center position. At 201 cm (6'7"), she is the tallest member of the Turkish women's basketball national team.
Enghusen started playing basketball in her age of 12 years. She played for Inglemoor High School in Washington until her graduation in 1998. She was named “1998 Gatorade Washington State Player of the Year”. While she studied sociology in major and psychology at Stanford University between 1998–2002, she played as center of the college team, the sixth-ranked women's basketball team in the NCAA.
Cori Enghusen was member of the US national team at the 2001 Basketball World University Games in Beijing, China. She helped lead the U.S. to gold at the Games.
In 2003, she played professionally in Greece. Then she moved to Turkey and was with Migrosspor in Istanbul in 2004. In 2005, she agreed to become a Turkish citizen in order to join the Turkey women’s basketball national team and to participate at the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain. She helped Turkey earn gold medal. Engin signed a two-years contract with Fenerbahçe Istanbul in July 2005.
Honors
- Fenerbahçe Istanbul
- Turkish League
- Winners (1): 2005-06
- Turkish Cup
- Winners (1): 2005-06
- Turkish League
- Galatasaray
- Turkish Presidents Cup
- Winners (1): 2007-08
- EuroCup Women
- Winners (1): 2008-09
- Turkish Presidents Cup
External links
2002 WNBA Draft First Round Sue Bird • Swin Cash • Stacey Dales • Asjha Jones • Nikki Teasley • Tamika Williams • Sheila Lambert • Deanna Jackson • Shaunzinski Gortman • Michelle Snow • Danielle Crockrom • Hamchétou Maïga • Tawana McDonald • LaNeishea Caufield • Tamara Moore • Rosalind RossSecond Round Zuzi Klimesova • Lenae Williams • Lucienne Berthieu • Ayana Walker • Jill Chapman • Kathy Wambe • Davalyn Cunningham • Brandi McCain • Tootie Shaw • Linda Frohlich • Andrea Gardner • Felicia Ragland • Lindsey Yamasaki • Gergana Slavtcheva • Angie Welle • Jackie HigginsThird Round LaNisha Cartwell • Kelly Komara • Takeisha Lewis • Teresa Geter • Mandy Nightingale • Lindsey Meder • Saundra Jackson • Kayte Christensen • Edniesha Curry • Shondra Johnson • Edmarie Lumbsley • Alayne Ingram • Jerica Watson • Tracy Gahan • Ericka Haney • Rashana BarnesFourth Round LaKeisha Taylor • Melody Johnson • Jermisha Dosty • Jillian Danker • Monique Cardenas • Shárron Francis • Tomeka Brown • Amba Kongolo • Jessie Stomski • Cori Enghusen • Jaclyn Winfield • Elizabeth Pickney • Jerkisha Dosty • Deedee Warley • Marché Strickland • Tiffany ThompsonCategories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- People from Bothell, Washington
- American emigrants to Turkey
- Turkish people of American descent
- Naturalized citizens of Turkey
- Turkish women's basketball players
- American women's basketball players
- Migrosspor basketballers
- Fenerbahçe basketballers
- Botaş SK players
- Galatasaray women's basketball players
- Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi S.K. players
- Centers (basketball)
- Turkish expatriates in Russia
- Turkish expatriates in Croatia
- Turkish basketball biography stubs
- American basketball biography, 1980s birth stubs
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
