Korel Engin

Korel Engin

Mersin Büyükşehir Belediyesi
Position	Center
League	Turkish Women's Basketball League
Personal information
Born	(1980-04-08) April 8, 1980 Washington, United States
Nationality	United States Turkey
Listed height	6 ft 7 in (2.01 m)
Listed weight	231 lb (105 kg)
Career information
Playing career	2003–present

Korel Engin (born April 8, 1980 in Bothell, Washington), aka Cori Enghusen, is U.S. born Turkish female basketball player at the center position. At 201 cm (6'7"), she is the tallest member of the Turkish women's basketball national team.

Enghusen started playing basketball in her age of 12 years. 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

• Fenerbahçe Istanbul
  • Turkish League
    • Winners (1): 2005-06
  • Turkish Cup
    • Winners (1): 2005-06
• Galatasaray
  • Turkish Presidents Cup
    • Winners (1): 2007-08
  • EuroCup Women
    • Winners (1): 2008-09

External links

• Player Profile at Eurobasket Women 2007
• Profile at tbl.org.tr