Personal Statement
hello,
my name is Selen Ozbilen, and I am a student at Istanbul Saint Joseph high school, class 10, I will be graduated from my high school in 2020.
I have been swimming at Istanbul Fenerbahce sports club since 2007 with the same coach, Mr. Ibrahim Onur Aksoy. at the moment I have 9 trainings per week, being 3 of them in the morning before school and 6 of them in the afternoon. my school starts at 08:00 and ends at 15:10. I have afternoon training every weekday except mondays and I take french lessons on monday afternoons. I also take piano classes when I have time.
I have been elected to turkish national team when I was 13 years old and ever since I am a member of turkish national team. I have participated many international competitions so far. important ones are EYOF in 2015 where I broke turkish record of my age in 200 free and won a bronze medal in 4x100 free relay together with my team mates, european juniors in 2017 where swam in semi-final and broke turkish record of my age in 100 free. world juniors in 2017 where I also swam semi-final in 100 free, and european short course in 2017. I have also participated many multinations competitions, commen cup, balkans competition, islamic solidarity games, french golden tour etc.
as of now, I hold the turkish short course records in 50-100-200-400-800 free, and turkish long course records in 100-200-400 free. some of them are 15-16 years age and some of them are 19+ years age records. I broke 16 turkish records in december 2016 turkish short course competition.
I love swimming and I didnt quit swimming when I was preparing for the central high school exams in 2015, most of my team mates did quit swimming to prepare for this exam to be able to enter a good high school. In my country high school exams are very important for ones academic career. In 2015, I have managed to participate to EYOF and I have also managed to make a good exam and enter to 3rd top private high school of Turkey which is a french high school. so I will be speaking french and english when I am graduated.
I have 25% scholarship in my high school for being a national teamer and school teamer as well.
I very much would like to study in USA.
