Pinar Shehrin Season 2026-27

PositionBACKSTROKE/FREESTYLE
Height5-6
ClassFreshman
HometownAnkara, Turkey
High SchoolMETU Development Foundation

Honors:

  • Eight-year national-level competitive swimmer specializing in the backstroke and freestyle events.
  • Selected as a member of the Turkish National Swimming Team multiple times and represented Turkey at international competitions, including Multinations Europe, International Gymnasiade and the Turkey Mixed Regional Team.
  • Maintained a continuous podium-level presence at Turkish National Championships from 2022-2025 across short-course and long-course competition.
  • Turkish National Champion in the 200 backstroke at the 2024 Turkish School Sports Federation Youth Swimming Championship.
  • Placed third in the 200 backstroke in the open-age division at the 2026 Turkish National Championships.
  • Placed second in the 200 backstroke in the open-age division at the 2026 Turkish National Team Selections.
  • Placed second in the 100 backstroke in the junior division at the 2025 Turkish National Championships.
  • Won the 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke and 200 freestyle junior titles at the 2024 Turkish National Championships.
  • Won the 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke junior titles at the 11th Swimming Cup Bulgaria in 2024.
  • Won the 50 backstroke and 100 backstroke junior titles at the 2024 Turkish National Team Selections.
  • Member of multiple Turkish national age-group relay record-setting teams in the 15-16 age group in both short-course and long-course competition.
  • Has trained competitively for 14 years, including eight years at the national level, and has competed for AYKON Sports Club, Galatasaray SK and currently ENKA Sports Club.

Personal:

  • Daughter of Aehan Shehrin and Petek Kovancı Shehrin.
  • Plans to major in Neuroscience.
  • Interested in connecting her studies in physiology, biology and neuroscience with swimming and human athletic performance.
  • Hopes to explore the intersection of academic research, athletic performance and emerging AI practices.
  • Earned Turkish Ministry of Education Academic Recognition and was named to the Honor Roll in ninth and 10th grades.