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Agata Mróz-Olszewska (born on April 7, 1982 in Dąbrowa Tarnowska

Dabrowa Tarnowska

Dąbrowa Tarnowska is a town in Poland, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, about north of Tarnów. It is the capital of Dąbrowa County. Before reorganization Dąbrowa Tarnowska was part of Tarnów Voivodeship . Population is 11'402...

 – June 4, 2008 in Wrocław) was a Polish

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

-Tatar volleyball player, and a member of the women's national team

Poland women's national volleyball team

The Poland women's national volleyball team is the national volleyball team from Poland, controlled by the Polski Związek Piłki Siatkowej , and represents the country in international competitions and friendly matches....

. She died of an infection following a bone marrow transplant. The transplant was to treat Myelodysplastic syndrome

Myelodysplastic syndrome

The myelodysplastic syndromes are a diverse collection of hematological medical conditions that involve ineffective production of the myeloid class of blood cells....

, which she had suffered from since the age of 17.

Olszewska-Mroz began her career in Tarnovia Tarnów

Tarnovia Tarnów

Tarnovia Tarnów is a Polish sports club, founded in 1909 in the southern city of Tarnów. With white and red hues, the club's founders wanted to emphasize their patriotism, during the time when their homeland was divided into three powers .Tarnovia was based on two smaller teams, which had been...

, then moved to SMS Sosnowiec, WSBiP Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski and BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała, where she was twice champion of Poland (2003 and 2004). She also played for the Spanish

Spain

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 team Grupo 2002 Murcia, winning both the Championship of Spain and the Cup of Spain tournament (2007). In 2007 she gave up her volleyball career because of her bone marrow disease. Polish and international volleyball authorities as well as numerous fans organized a campaign to help her.

For her sport achievements, on November 22, 2005 president Aleksander Kwaśniewski

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a Polish politician who served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. He was born in Białogard, and during communist rule he was active in the Socialist Union of Polish Students and was the Minister for Sport in the communist government in the 1980s...

 awarded her a Golden Cross of Merit.

She is survived by her husband Jacek Olszewski and daughter Liliana, who was born on April 4, 2008, just two months before Mróz-Olszewska's death.