Inky Ajanaku

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.

Inky Ajanaku
Personal information
Full nameOyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku
Nationality United States
HometownTulsa, Oklahoma
Height6-3
College(s)Stanford Cardinal team.
Volleyball information
PositionMiddle blocker
Honours

2016 NCAA Division I Tournament winner

Pan American Games
2015 Toronto Team competition

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]

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References
  1. "Inky Ajanaku". teamusa.org. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  2. "Inky Ajanaku Biography". volleymob.com. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
  3. "Washington's Vansant Repeats As Honda Volleyball Sport Award Winner - CWSA". www.collegiatewomensportsawards.com. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
  4. Athletics, Stanford. "Stanford's Ajanaku earns volleyball's Honda Sports Award". www.paloaltoonline.com. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  5. "Ajanaku of Stanford Named the Honda Sport Award Winner for Volleyball". CWSA. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  6. "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.
  7. "Mittelblockerin aus den USA". volerozuerich.ch (in German). July 5, 2017.
  8. "Former Stanford Star Inky Ajanaku's Contract Terminated By Galatasaray". September 20, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2018.
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