İpar Özay Kurt

İpar Özay Kurt (born 10 November 2003) is a Turkish volleyball player. She played for Fenerbahçe as wing spiker with jersey number 16 and now plays for Stanford University. She is 1.86m tall at 69 kg.

İpar Özay Kurt was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 10 November 2003.

Club
After playing for the İlbank in Ankara, she joined the Istanbul-based club Fenerbahçe in 2017. Between 2015 and 2017, she enjoyed several local and national champion titles.

Girls' U15/U16
Kurt was part of the girls' national youth team, which finished the U16 Balkan Championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2017 at fourth place.

Girls' U17/U18
She won the bronze medal with the national U17/U18 team the 2018 Girls' U17 European Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was a member of the bronze-medalist women's national U18 team at the 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival held in Baku, Azerbaijan. Kurt played for the national team at the 2019 FIVB Girls' U18 World Championship in Cairo, Egypt, which ranked 9th. As of 2020, she has represented Turkish national youth and junior teams in 22 games.

Women's U19/U20
She was named the "Most valuable player" of the 2020 Women's U19 European Championship in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzogovina, where the Turkey national U20 team became champion.

Individual

 * Most Valuable Player 2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship

International

 * 2018 Girls' U17 Volleyball European Championship – Third place
 * 2019 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival – Third place
 * 2020 Women's U19 Volleyball European Championship – Champion