Agata Mróz-Olszewska

Agata Mróz - Olszewska ( born April 7, 1982 in Dąbrowa Tarnovska, † June 4, 2008 in Breslau) was a Polish volleyball player.

The 191 cm tall middle blocker was active initially for their home club Tarnovia Tarnów. After an engagement in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski she played between 2003 and 2006 for the Polish elite team BKS Stal Bielsko- Biała, with which it was in 2003 and 2004 Polish Champion. In 2006 she moved to the Spanish club CAV Murcia 2005, with whom she had also won the 2007 championship and the Spanish Cup straight away.

With the Polish national volleyball team, it was 2003 and 2005 European champion.

Since the age of 17 Agata Mróz was suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome. As her health deteriorated in 2007, the public informed she and her husband Jacek Olszewski about their disease. In the same year she finished her sporting career.

On 22 May 2008, Agata Mróz - Olszewska underwent in Wroclaw successful bone marrow transplantation. However, on June 4, 2008, she died of sepsis. She left behind her husband and daughter Liliana, which was, on 4 April 2008, born two months before her death.

The Polish President Lech Kaczyński posthumously conferred Agata Mróz - Olszewska the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the second highest civilian award of the country.