Esra Gümüş Kırıcı

She was born on October 2, 1982, in Ankara. She started Volleyball in 1995 at Ankara Vakıfbank Sports Club and in 1999 she stepped into professionalism for the first time in this club. Between 1999 and 2017, she played professionally for 18 seasons in the Turkish Volleyball Super League. She transferred to Istanbul Yeşilyurt Sports Club with the relocation of Vakıfbank's headquarters to Istanbul. After playing here for 4 seasons, she was transferred to Eczacıbaşı Sports Club. She also served as team captain of Eczacıbaşı Sports Club and in the A national team for a long time. She was the captain of the National Volleyball Team at the 2012 London Olympic Games, the first Olympic Games participated in Turkish volleyball history. She played nearly 300 (star, young, and A) times for the Turkish national team.

With Eczacıbaşı Sports Club, she experienced 4 league championships, 3 Turkish Cup Champions, 2 Super Cup Champions, and various 2nd and 3rd places. In this process, she also won the best bump-setting player and most valuable player awards in the league. In national teams, Esra Gümüş reached 2nd place in Europe in 2003, 3rd place in Europe in 2011, 3rd place in the FIVB World Grand Prix, 1st place in the European Continental Qualifications in 2012, and she qualified for the London Olympic Games with the national team.

Esra Gümüş ended her active volleyball life in 2017 and became a permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Sports Sciences, Marmara University in 2018. He still continues his work there.