Korel Engin
Korel Engin (born April 8, 1980), aka Cori Enghusen, is an American-born Turkish female basketball player at the center position for Beşiktaş Cola Turka. At 201 cm (6'7"), she is the tallest member of the Turkish women's basketball national team.
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| Born | April 8, 1980 Bothell, Washington | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | American / Turkish | |||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) | |||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 231 lb (105 kg) | |||||||||||||
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| High school | Inglemoor (Kenmore, Washington) | |||||||||||||
| College | Stanford (1998–2002) | |||||||||||||
| WNBA draft | 2002 / Round: 4 / Pick: 58th overall | |||||||||||||
| Selected by the Houston Comets | ||||||||||||||
| Position | Center | |||||||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Migrosspor | |||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Fenerbahçe | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Botaşspor | |||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Gospic | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | BC Moscow | |||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Galatasaray | |||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi | |||||||||||||
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Born in Bothell, Washington, Enghusen started playing basketball at the age of 12. 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
- Turkish League
- Winners (1): 2005-06
- Turkish Cup
- Winners (1): 2005-06
- Turkish League
- Turkish Presidents Cup
- Winners (1): 2007-08
- EuroCup Women
- Winners (1): 2008-09
- Turkish Presidents Cup