Sinead Jack

Sinead Jack-Kısal
Jack-Kısal in 2025
Personal information
Full nameSinead Jack Kısal
NationalityTrinidad and Tobago
Turkish (from 2025)
BornSinead Jack
(1993-11-08) 8 November 1993
San Juan, Trinidad and Tobago
Height1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight83 kg (183 lb)
Spike324 cm (128 in)
Block314 cm (124 in)
Volleyball information
PositionMiddle blocker
Current clubFenerbahçe
Number88
Career
YearsTeams
2010–2013AZS Białystok
2013–2016VC Uralochka-NTMK
2016–2018Galatasaray
2018–2020Denso Airybees
2020–2021İlbank
2021Chemik Police
2021–2022Megabox Volley Vallefoglia
2022–2026Eczacıbaşı Dynavit
2026–Fenerbahçe
National team
2011–2018Trinidad and Tobago
2025–Turkey
Honours
Women's volleyball
Representing  Turkey
FIVB World Championship
Silver medal – second place2025 ThailandTeam
FIVB Nations League
Gold medal – first place2026 MacauTeam

Sinead Jack Kısal (born Sinead Jack, 8 November 1993) is a professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Sultans League club Fenerbahçe. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she plays for the Turkey national team. She is a former Trinidad and Tobago international.

Personal life

Sinead Jack was born in Trinidad and Tobago on 8 November 1993.[2] On 8 August 2019, she married Turkish volleyball player Murathan Kısal (born 22 November 1989),[3] and gained Turkish citizenship.[2][4]

Club career

She is 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) and plays in the middle blocker position.[2]

After starting her sports career in Trinidad and Tobago, Sinead Jack made her first professional signing with the Polish team AZS Białystok in 2010. Later, she took part in the squad of Uralochka-NTMK in Russia (2013-2016).[5] For the 2016–17 season, she signed with the Turkish club Galatasaray in Istanbul. Due to her significant contribution to the team's success, her contract was extended for one year in July 2017.[6] Later, she was with Denso Airybees in Japan (2018-2020), İlbank in Turkey (2020-2021), Chemik Police in Poland (2020-2021) and Megabox Del Savio Vallefoglia in Italy (2021-2022), respectively.[5] In 2022, she transferred to Eczacıbaşı in Turkey.[2][5][7]

In 2026, in her final season with Eczacıbaşı Jack-Kısal won a silver medal in the 2026 Champions League 2025–26 CEV Women's Champions League and was named Best Middle Blocker [8].

She has signed with Fenerbahçe for the 2026/2027 season [9].

International career

Trinidad and Tobago

Playing for the Trinidad and Tobago women's national volleyball team, she participated at the 2011 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup.[10] Jack won the 2013 NORCECA Championship Best Middle Blocker award.[11] She won the 2017 Pan-American Cup Best Middle Blocker award,[12] and the same award in the 2018 Central American and Caribbean Games.[13]

Türkiye

In January 2025, the Turkish Volleyball Federation stated that Jack Kısal will be eligible to play for the Turkey women's national volleyball team due to her Turkish citizenship obtained by marriage years ago.[2] In April 2025, she was selected to the Türkiye national team for the 2025 FIVB Women's Volleyball Nations League.[7]

Awards

Clubs

Individuals

References

  1. ↑ "A Milli Kadın Takımı Kadro".
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Tekin, Ragıp (21 January 2025). "Sinead Jack-KISAL Türk Milli Takımı Yolunda…". Maraton Türk (in Turkish). Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  3. ↑ "Murathan Kısal ile Sinead Jack Aşkında Mutlu Son". voleybolunsesi.com. 9 August 2019. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "Türk Oyuncu Olarak Sahalarda". voleybolunsesi.com. 24 December 2022. Retrieved 6 February 2024.
  5. 1 2 3 "Sinead Jack-Kısal" (in Turkish). Eczacıbaşı Spor Kulübü. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  6. ↑ "Sinead Jack bir yıl daha Galatasaray'da" (in Turkish). Galatasaray Spor Kulübü. 6 July 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  7. 1 2 "Sinead Jack Kısal ve Alexia Carutasu Filenin Sultanları'nın geniş kadrosuna davet". Voleybol Magazin (in Turkish). 21 April 2025. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
  8. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/DX47emtDlzz/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  9. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/DZU4KMxiEfn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
  10. ↑ "X Pan American Women's Volleyball Cup 2011 : Group-B" (PDF). Norceca.net. Retrieved 2017-04-04.
  11. ↑ "Kelly Murphy Named NORCECA Women's Championship MVP". Omaha, Nebraska: NORCECA. 21 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
  12. ↑ "Micha Hancock named MVP of XVI Pan Am Cup". NORCECA. 25 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "Voleibol: Las soberanas son dominicanas" [Volleyball: The sovereigns are Dominican] (in Spanish). Cuba Ahora. 27 July 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2022.


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