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Full name | Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku | ||||||||
Nationality | United States | ||||||||
Hometown | Tulsa, Oklahoma | ||||||||
Height | 6-3 | ||||||||
College / University | Stanford Cardinal team. | ||||||||
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Position | Middle blocker | ||||||||
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Oyinkansola OluSeun Ajanaku, better known as Inky Ajanaku, is an American volleyball player from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Besides her collegiate career, she won a gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games. She plays as a middle blocker.
Ajanaku attended Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2012 she joined the Stanford Cardinal team. She won a gold medal with the United States team at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto but sustained a knee injury during the competition, so she missed the 2015 collegiate season.[1] She won the 2016 NCAA Division I Tournament with the Cardinal as a redshirt senior and was named the Most Outstanding Player. She was a member of the AVCA All-America First-Team in 2013, 2014 and 2016.[2][1] She was a Honda Sports Award finalist in 2015,[3] and went on to win the Award as the nation's best female collegiate volleyball athlete in 2017.[4][5] In 2017 she was nominated for the Best Female College Athlete ESPY Award.[6]
After her college career, Anjanaku joined Volero Zurich for the 2017–18 season[7] but missed the Swiss Championships because of an injury.[8] In May 2017, she announced that she would leave Voleo Zurich and join Galatasaray S.K., but the contract was cancelled by Galatasaray on September 18.[8]
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