# 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:
* BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała (1951–2006)
* BKS Aluprof Bielsko-Biała (2006–2015)
* BKS Aluprof Profi Credit Bielsko-Biała (2015–2016)
* BKS Profi Credit Bielsko-Biała (2016–2019)
* BKS Stal Bielsko-Biała (2019-2020)
* BKS BOSTIK Bielsko-Biała (2020-2023)
* BKS BOSTIK ZGO Bielsko-Biała (2023-present)

## History

The sports club Bialski Klub Sportowy was established in 1922 and through the years had many different sports departments (today only the men's football and the later founded women's volleyball are still active). 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 (Bielsko Sewing Machine factory or in short "Befama"), and as sports associations were under supervision of trade unions, the club was renamed Bialski Klub Sportowy Stal (Bialski Sports Club Steel). It was under this set up that in 1951 the women's volleyball department was created. It has various teams (girls, youth, second and first senior team) 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 (1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91) and three consecutive Polish Cups (1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90). In the period that followed, the club won another four Championships (1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10), three Cups (2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09) and two Polish Super Cups (2006, 2010).
In 2011 the club became a corporation and changed its name to Bialski Klub Sportowy Spółka Akcyjna (BSK S.A.).

## Honours
### National competitions

* Polish Championship: 8
    1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1995–96, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10
* Polish Cup: 8
    1954–55, 1978–79, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2008–09
* Polish Super Cup: 2
    2006, 2010

## Team

2016–2017 squad, as per March 2017.
| Number | Player | Position | Height (m) | Weight (kg) | Birth date |
| 1 | Natalia Perlińska | Middle blocker | 1.90 | 73 | (1988-06-04) 4 June 1988 (age 36) |
| 2 | Joanna Staniucha-Szczurek | Outside hitter | 1.84 | 73 | (1981-12-05) 5 December 1981 (age 42) |
| 3 | Mariola Wojtowicz | Libero | 1.64 | 60 | (1980-01-04) 4 January 1980 (age 44) |
| 4 | Aleksandra Wańczyk | Opposite | 1.93 | 81 | (1996-01-01) 1 January 1996 (age 28) |
| 6 | Jaroslava Pencová | Middle blocker | 1.90 | 86 | (1990-06-24) 24 June 1990 (age 34) |
| 7 | Natalia Skrzypkowska | Outside hitter | 1.80 | 68 | (1989-02-23) 23 February 1989 (age 35) |
| 8 | Aleksandra Pasznik | Setter | 1.83 | 63 | (1990-02-26) 26 February 1990 (age 34) |
| 9 | Erica Handley | Setter | 1.83 | 68 | (1995-04-22) 22 April 1995 (age 29) |
| 11 | Soňa Mikysková | Opposite | 1.89 | 79 | (1989-05-02) 2 May 1989 (age 35) |
| 12 | Aleksandra Trojan | Middle blocker | 1.96 | 68 | (1991-06-06) 6 June 1991 (age 33) |
| 13 | Magdalena Gryka | Setter | 1.79 | 69 | (1994-03-28) 28 March 1994 (age 30) |
| 14 | Ewelina Brzezińska | Outside hitter | 1.83 | 73 | (1988-01-26) 26 January 1988 (age 36) |
| 15 | Kornelia Moskwa | Middle blocker | 1.86 | 80 | (1996-10-30) 30 October 1996 (age 27) |
| 16 | Emilia Mucha | Outside hitter | 1.86 | 73 | (1993-12-07) 7 December 1993 (age 30) |
| 17 | Aneta Wilczek | Libero | 1.76 | 63 | (1997-12-11) 11 December 1997 (age 26) |
| 18 | Wiktoria Szumera | Outside hitter | 1.82 | 67 | (1999-12-28) 28 December 1999 (age 24) |