Ceyda Aktaş

Who is Ceyda Aktaş?

Ceyda Aktaş is a Turkish female volleyball player. She is 189 cm tall at 77 kg and plays in the wing spiker position.

Born on August 18, 1994 in Ankara, she describes herself as a hyperactive one in her childhood. For this, her parents canalized her to performing sports and dancing. She first began with basketball playing, however left it because she was not interested anymore. Ceyda learnt and performed then Latin dances, participating at dance competitions as well. Due to her physique, she was then discovered by volleyball coaches Zeycan Acar and Taner Atik, who visited her class in the school in and searched for potential volleyballers. At the age of ten, Ceyda began with volleyball sport in 2004 as a member of Ankara VakıfBank's girls team.

After having played for TVF Sport High School between 2009-2011, she transferred to the Istanbul club VakıfBank Türk Telekom in the 2011-12 season. Returned to her hometown to study at the TED University, Ceyda is currently with the TED Ankara Kolejliler. Aktaş debuted in the Turkey girls' youth national volleyball team in 2011 and is currently a member of the Turkey women's junior national volleyball team. She wears number 7.