Ayşenur Sormaz

Ayşenur Sormaz (born 10 May 2000) ) is a Turkish handballer, who plays as centre back for the Italian club A.S.D. Ariosto Pallamano Ferrara in the Serie A1 and the Turkey national team.

Personal life
Ayşenur Sormaz was born in Ardeşen district of Rize Province, northeastern Turkey on 10 May 2000.

Club career
Sormaz is 1.76m tall at 65 kg. She plays in the left back, and sometimes in the center back position.

She played in the Turkish Super League (Türkiye Kadınlar Hentbol Süper Ligi, TKHSL) for Muratpaşa Bld. SK (2018–2020) in Antalya, Ego Spor (2021) in Ankara and Anadolu University (2022) in Eskişehir. She scored a total of 53 goals in 24 matches played. She was with Muratpaşa Bld. SK when her team became runners-up in the 2018–19 TKHSL season, and won the 2018–19 Turkish Cup (Hentbol Kadınlar Türkiye Kupası) ), defeating the league champion Kastamonu Bld. GSK

In January 2023, the Italian Serie A1-club A.S.D. Ariosto Pallamano Ferrara announced that they had signed a deal with her.

International career
Sormaz played in the 2017 European Handball Women's U-17 EHF Championship for non-Euro participants in Klaipėda, Lithuania, where she finished third with Turkey U-17. Two years later, she played in the same place at the U-19 tournament and came third again.

Admitted to the Turkey national handball team, she took part in 2019 at the 2020 European Championship qualification, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She played at the 2022 European Championship qualification. In 2022, at the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya, Turkey, she was with the national team, which became champion.

She is also a member of the Turkey national beach handball team. She participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Club

 * Turkish Women's Handball Super League
 * Muratpaşa Bld. SK
 * Runners-up (1): 2018–19


 * Women's Handball Turkish Cup
 * Muratpaşa Bld. SK
 * Winners (1): 2018–19

International

 * Turkey women's national U-17 handball team
 * European Handball Women's U-17 EHF Championshipfor non-Euro participants
 * Third places (1): 2017


 * Turkey women's national U-19 handball team
 * European Handball Women's U-19 EHF Championshipfor non-Euro participants
 * Third places (1): 2019


 * Turkey women's national handball team
 * Islamic Solidarity Games
 * Champions (1): 2021