Turkish basketball player

Müjde Yüksel (born 9 March 1981 in Kadıköy, İstanbul) is a former Turkish female basketball player. The 1.80 m (5' 11") national compe*or played in the forward position.

After Yüksel played for Migrosspor, she transferred to Fenerbahçe İstanbul. She played for two seasons with Fenerbahçe and won one Turkish Women's Basketball League championship, two Turkey Cup and one President’s Cup *le. Yüksel signed a contract with Beşiktaş J.K. for the 2005-06 season, then transferred to Mersin BŞB for the 2006-07 season.

Yüksel played in the national team, which participated in the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Almería, Spain where she won a gold medal.

Upon earning her PhD from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of M*achusetts Amherst, Yuksel joined the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University in August 2014 as an *istant professor of Marketing.

In October 2015 Müjde married Clint Palermo in Harvard, M*achusetts. In November 2017 they had a baby.

See also

• Turkish women in sports

External links

• Player profile at eurobasket.net