This is our special tribute to Polish volleyball player Agata Mróz-Olszewska who passed away 6 years ago (June 4th, 2008).
Agata won two European Champions’ titles: Turkey 2003 and Croatia 2005.
She died of an infection following a bone marrow transplant to treat Myelodysplastic syndrome, which she had suffered from since the age of 17.
Agata was born in Dąbrowa Tarnowska, but raised in Tarnów. Her sister Katarzyna is a volleyball player, and her brother Paweł a basketball player. On June 9, 2007 she married Jacek Olszewski. Since the age of 17, she suffered Myelodysplastic syndrome. In 2007 she gave up her volleyball career because of her bone marrow disease, and began treatment.
On January 12, 2008 she announced she was pregnant, and that as a result she could not charge treatment. Their daughter Liliana was born prematurely on April 4, 2008.
On May 22, 2008 she had a bone marrow transplant in the Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation, Oncology and Hematology of the Medical University in Wrocław. She died fourteen days later from sepsis and septic shock.
Her funeral was held on her first wedding anniversary, June 9, 2008.
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