Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata
Personal information
Full nameKatarzyna Ewa Skowrońska-Dolata
NicknameKasia
NationalityPolish
Born (1983-06-30) June 30, 1983
Warsaw, Poland
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Spike317 cm (125 in)
Block302 cm (119 in)
Volleyball information
PositionOpposite spiker / Wing Spiker
Current teamBrazil Barueri
Number18
Career
YearsTeams
1995–1998
1998–2001
2001–2003
2003–2005
2005–2006
2006–2008
2008–2010
2010–2011
2011–2013
2013–2015
2015–2016
2016–2017
2017–2019		Poland Skra Warszawa
Poland SMS PZPS Sosnowiec
Poland AZS AWF Danter Poznań
Poland Nafta-Gaz Piła
Italy Vicenza Volley
Italy Asystel Novara
Italy Scavolini Pesaro
Turkey Fenerbahçe Istanbul
China Guangdong Evergrande
Azerbaijan Rabita Baku
Poland Impel Wrocław
Italy Foppapedretti Bergamo
Brazil Hinode Barueri
National team
2003–2016 Poland
Honours
Representing  Poland
Women’s Volleyball
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2003 Turkey
Gold medal – first place 2005 Croatia
European Games
Silver medal – second place2015 Baku
Last updated: 14 May 2016

Katarzyna Ewa Skowrońska-Dolata (born 30 June 1983) is a former Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team and Italian club Foppapedretti Bergamo, double European Champion (2003, 2005), gold medalist of Italian, Turkish, Chinese and Azeri national championships.

Personal life

Skowrońska was born in Warsaw, Poland. On June 17, 2006 she married Jakub Dolata, her manager.

Early Years

She became interested in volleyball as a teenager, after watching her brother play the sport. As a 15 year old Skowrońska went to the School of Sports Championship Polish Volleyball Federation in Sosnowiec and started to play as a middle blocker. Her first success when she was a student of this school was the gold medal of Cadet European Championship 1999 and Junior European Championship 2000.

Skowrońska as a player of Scavolini Pesaro in 2010.

Career

Skowrońska-Dolata began her career as an attacker at the club Skra Warszawa, where her coach was Teofil Czerwiński. In 2003 she debuted in the Polish national team. During her debut season she won the title of European Champion 2003 in Ankara, Turkey.[1]

In 2001-2003, she was a player of AZS AWF Danter Poznań and won with this club a silver medal of Polish Championship in season 2002/2003. Then after two seasons 2003-2005 in Polish club Nafta-Gaz Piła and winning a bronze medal of Polish Championship 2004/2005 she moved to Italian League to Vicenza Volley, where spent season 2005/2006. In 2005 the Polish national team repeated its success from 2003 and Skowrońska won the second title of European Champion 2005 in Zagreb, Croatia. For her sport achievements, she received the Golden Cross of Merit in 2005 by Aleksander Kwaśniewski.[2] In 2007 Skowrońska achieve a title of Best Scorer in FIVB World Cup despite the fact that Poland has not won a qualifications for the Olympic Games.[3][4]

In the 2007-8 season she won a bronze medal in the CEV Champions League as well as the title of Best Scorer in the tournament alongside Asystel Novara. In 2008 she played at Olympic Games 2008. However the Polish women's national team was eliminated in the group stage. In 2008-2010 she played for the Italian side Scavolini Pesaro, a two-year period that was to prove amongst the most successful of her career. In 2008/2009 she won a SuperCup 2008, Italian Cup. She also won for the first time Italian Champion. In 2009/2010 she won the SuperCup 2009 and the Italian Champion for the second time.

At the end of the 2009/10 season, Skowrońska-Dolata moved to Turkish side Fenerbahçe Acıbadem Istanbul.[5][6] Here Katarzyna won the 2010 FIVB World Club Championship, played in Doha, Qatar. She earned the Most Valuable Player and the Best Scorer awards.[7] Skowrońska won the bronze medal with Fenerbahçe Acıbadem at the CEV Champions League 2010/2011. In the same season she won the title of Turkish Champion.[8] In 2011 she moved to Chinese club - Guangdong Evergrande. With this club she won the title of Chinese Champion 2011/2012, silver medal of Chinese Championship 2012/2013 and Asian Club Championship 2013. In 2013 moved to Azeri Rabita Baku.[9] She won the bronze medal of the CEV Champions League 2013/2014 after losing match (0-3) against Russian Dinamo Kazan in the semifinals, but defeating 3-0 to the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul in the third place match.[10][11]

Skowrońska won a title of Azeri Champion 2013/2014 after winning match 3-0 against Baki-Azeryol[12] and Skowrońska was Best Scorer and Most Valuable Player of the final series.[13][14] In March 2014 Skowrońska-Dolata signed a new one-year contract with Rabita.[15] In season 2013/2014 she achieved title of Azeri Champion and bronze medal of CEV Champions League.

In May 2015 she signed a contract with Polish club Impel Wrocław, making a return to the Polish league after a period of 10 years.[16] She took part in 1st edition of European Games. Skowrońska-Dolata helped Poland beat Serbia in the semifinals, thereby qualifying for the tournaments final.[17] On June 27, 2015 Poland was beaten by Turkey and Skowrońska-Dolata with her teammates achieved silver medal.[18]

Sporting achievements

CEV Champions League

FIVB Club World Championship

Asian Club Championship

National championships

National team

Individually

State awards

References

  1. ↑ Polskie siatkarki mistrzyniami Europy! - eurosport.onet.pl - 28-09-2003
  2. ↑ Spotkanie Prezydenta RP z polskimi siatkarkami – mistrzyniami Europy - prezydent.pl - 27-09-2005
  3. ↑ PŚ: Włoszka Simona Gioli MVP japońskiego turnieju - siatka.org - 16-11-2007
  4. ↑ Skowrońska wyróżniona - sport.interia.pl - 16-11-2007
  5. ↑ Türkiye’nin en büyük kulübündeyim Archived 2010-06-05 at the Wayback Machine - fenerbahce.org - 02-06-2010
  6. ↑ Katarzyna Skowrońska podpisała kontrakt z Fenerbahce! - sportowefakty.pl - 02-06-2010
  7. ↑ KMŚ: Skowrońska-Dolata MVP turnieju! - sport.wp.pl - 21-12-2010
  8. ↑ Fenerbahce Stambuł ze Skowrońską-Dolatą mistrzem Turcji - eurosport.onet.pl - 11-05-2011
  9. ↑ Skowronek w wieży Babel - sport.fakt.pl - 12-10-2013
  10. ↑ Bronze consolation for Rabita at home Final Four Archived 2016-08-21 at the Wayback Machine - cev.lu - 16-03-2014
  11. ↑ Rabita Baku trzecią drużyną Ligi Mistrzyń 2014 - eurosport.onet.pl - 16-03-2014
  12. ↑ Azerbaijan: Sesto scudetto consecutivo per il Rabita Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine - volleyball.it - 18-04-2014
  13. ↑ Azerbaijan: I premi individuali del campionato Archived 2014-04-19 at the Wayback Machine - volleyball.it - 18-04-2014
  14. ↑ Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata mistrzynią Azerbejdżanu z Rabitą Baku - eurosport.onet.pl - 18-04-2014
  15. ↑ Skowrońska-Dolata zostaje na kolejny sezon w Rabicie Baku Archived 2014-10-29 at the Wayback Machine - sport.pl - 10-03-2014
  16. ↑ Katarzyna Skowrońska-Dolata wraca na polskie partkiety - orlenliga.pl - 13-05-2015
  17. ↑ Poland ‘create horror movies’ on way to final[usurped] - baku2015.com - 25-06-2015
  18. ↑ Turks triumph over Poland in final, Serbia beat Azerbaijan to bronze[usurped] - baku2015.com - 27-06-2015
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