title: Nurşah Sancak
text: # Nurşah Sancak
  
  Nurşah Sancak (born 24 October 1997) is a Turkish handballer, who plays as left wing for Kastamonu Bld. GSK in the Turkish Super League and the Turkey national team.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Nurşah Sancak was born in Bursa, Turkey on 24 October 1997. She studied at Nişantaşı University in Istanbul.
  
  ## Club career
  
  She started handball playing in the high school when a handball coach founded a school team, and invited her to join. Her mother was not willing to ket her perform sport as she was very introvert. Believed in her talent, her class teacher convinced her mother. Her father approved from the very beginning.
  
  She is 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) tall. She plays in the right wing position.
  
  ### Osmangazi Bld. SK
  
  She started her sport career in the farm team of Osmangazi Bld. SK in her hometown Bursa. She was promoted to the A team, and played in the 2018–19 season of the Turkish Women's Handball Super League.
  
  ### Yalıkavak SK
  
  For the 2019–20 Super League season, she went to Bodrum, Muğla to join Yalıkavak SK. She played in total three seasons.
  
  ### Kastamonu Bld. GSK
  
  Late July 2022, she transferred to Kastamonu Bld. GSK. Mid March 2023, she suffered an anterior cruciate ligament rupture on her left leg, and underwent a reconstructive surgery in Istanbul. She won the 2022–23 Turkeish Super League wşth her team.
  
  ## International career
  
  Sancak was admitted to the national team in June 2019. She played at the 2022 European Championship qualification.
  
  In 2015, she was called up to the Turkey women's national under-19 beach handball team for participation at the 2015 European Beach Handball Championship's junior women's division in Lloret de Mar, Spain.
  
  ## Honours
  
  ### Turkish Women's Handball Super League
  
      Yalıkavak SK
         Runners-up (2): 2020–21, 2021–22
      Kastamonu Bld. GSK
         Champions (1): 2022–23
  