Maja Ognjenovic
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Maja Ognjenovic

Serbia

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Height183 cm
Player Overview

About Maja Ognjenovic

Maja Ognjenovic represents Serbia at senior level as a setter, with a club career that includes professional club volleyball. Ognjenović is one of the defining setters of her generation, with a senior international career stretching across multiple Olympic and World Championship cycles. Her club career has also crossed several of Europe’s strongest leagues, giving her unusually broad experience in managing different offensive systems.

Maja Ognjenovic plays the distribution role at the center of the offense. Setters connect reception to attack, vary tempo and manage matchups, so their influence is spread across nearly every rally rather than concentrated in a scoring total. Listed at 183 cm, that physical profile is relevant context for the role, but it does not replace timing, reading and technical execution. For Maja Ognjenovic, the position therefore links technical detail with the tactical demands of both club and national-team volleyball.

She returned to Serbia’s EuroVolley squad in 2026 and captained a group that finished with bronze. For a setter, that longevity is especially significant because the position depends on reading, tempo control and relationships with changing groups of attackers; Ognjenović has sustained those demands across many roster generations. Club continuity and international selection now sit side by side in Maja Ognjenovic’s career, giving the player experience across two different competitive rhythms.

Player Information

FieldDetails
Full NameMaja Ognjenovic
NationalitySerbian
PositionSetter
Height183 cm
National TeamSerbia Women’s National Volleyball Team
Career StatusActive
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