BKS Bielsko-Biała


BKS Bielsko-Biała, is the women's volleyball department of Polish sports club BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała based in Bielsko-Biała and plays in the Orlen Liga.

Previous names

Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names:
The sports club was established in 1922 and through the years had many different sports departments. All activities were suspended during World War II and when the club resumed its activities after the war, with sports facility reconstruction efforts, it was under the patronage of several industries, most notably the Bielska Fabryka Maszyn Włókienniczych, and as sports associations were under supervision of trade unions, the club was renamed . It was under this set up that in 1951 the women's volleyball department was created. It has various teams playing across many divisions in the Polish leagues. The main senior team reached the first division three years after its foundation and in the 1954–55 season won the Polish Cup for the first time, with a second Cup title arriving in 1978–79. During the late 1980s the club achieved success winning the Polish Championships for four consecutive years and three consecutive Polish Cups. In the period that followed, the club won another four Championships, three Cups and two Polish Super Cups.
In 2011 the club became a corporation and changed its name to .

Honours

National competitions

2016–2017 squad, as per March 2017.
NumberPlayerPositionHeight Weight Birth date
1 Natalia PerlińskaMiddle blocker1.9073
2 Joanna Staniucha-SzczurekOutside hitter1.8473
3 Mariola WojtowiczLibero1.6460
4 Aleksandra WańczykOpposite1.9381
6 Jaroslava PencováMiddle blocker1.9086
7 Natalia SkrzypkowskaOutside hitter1.8068
8 Aleksandra PasznikSetter1.8363
9 Erica HandleySetter1.8368
11 Soňa MikyskováOpposite1.8979
12 Aleksandra TrojanMiddle blocker1.9668
13 Magdalena GrykaSetter1.7969
14 Ewelina BrzezińskaOutside hitter1.8373
15 Kornelia MoskwaMiddle blocker1.8680
16 Emilia MuchaOutside hitter1.8673
17 Aneta WilczekLibero1.7663
18 Wiktoria SzumeraOutside hitter1.8267