TEAM COMPOSITION

BCH / PGE Skra Belchatow

Belchatow, Poland

Team manager	GASZEK Sebastian
Coach	NAWROCKI Jacek
Assistant coach	BARTODZIEJSKI Maciej
Assistant coach 2	LECOUNA Daniel
Doctor	LUCARZ Wojciech
Physiotherapist	KUCIAPINSKI Tomasz
Journalist	ZYZYNSKI Zelislaw

	No.	Name	Lastname	Shirt Name	Birthdate	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	Country
C	2	Mariusz	WLAZLY	WLAZLY	04.08.1983	194	80	360	329	POL
	4	Daniel	PLINSKI	PLINSKI	10.12.1978	204	100	345	325	POL
	5	Wytze	Kooistra	Kooistra	03.06.1982	209	102	360	340	NED
	6	Karol	KLOS	KLOS	08.08.1989	201	87	357	326	POL
	8	Konstantin	CUPKOVIC	CUPKOVIC	02.01.1987	202	87	365	340	SRB
	9	DEJAN	VINCIC	VINCIC	15.09.1986	200	90	345	330	SLO
	12	Pawel	WOICKI	WOICKI	29.06.1983	183	80	330	305	POL
	13	Michal	WINIARSKI	WINIARSKI	28.09.1983	200	82	345	332	POL
	14	Aleksandar	Atanasijevic	ATANASIJEVIC	04.09.1991	200	92	350	329	SRB
L	16	Pawel	ZATORSKI	ZATORSKI	21.06.1990	184	73	328	304	POL
	17	YOSLEYDER	CALA GERARDO	CALA GERARDO	22.10.1984	204	96	370	340	USA
	18	Michal	BAKIEWICZ	BAKIEWICZ	22.03.1981	197	92	339	318	POL

C=Captain L=Libero

Team profile

Founded in 1930 as a football club, PGE Skra became a volleyball club in 1957.

The team advanced to the top-flight league for the first time in 1999. Two years later PGE Skra managed to come back to the elite and started to biuld its leading position in Poland. After taking their first bronze medal in 2002, they won the national championship in 2005 and started a period of absolute domination in Poland, winning seven consecutive titles.

PGE Skra has also competed every year in the CEV Champions League, always advancing to at least the Top 12. They took silver in 2012 and finished third in 2008 and 2010. Last year PGE Skra took the Polish Cup, but lost the Polish Championship final for the first time in 8 years.

“This year is going to be full of challenges,” said team president Konrad Piechocki. “We want to regain the Polish Championship and be successful in the Champions League and FIVB World Club Championships. Two times we finished as runners-up, and it was a great result. This year we dream, we may improve. We believe everything is possible.”

Coach profile

Originally arriving at PGE Skra as a setter, Jacek Nawrocki chose to remain with the team past his playing career – becoming assistant coach first under Ireneusz Mazur, the former national team coach, then under Daniel Castellani. When Castellani moved to the Polish national team, PGE Skra gave Nawrocki the chance to prove his knowledge and coaching skill.

“He has a great skills and he will be a perfect coach,” said Castellani about his former protégé. “The only things that are missing are the trophies.”

Nawrocki earned his first medal in Doha in 2010, when his team took silver. PGE Skra had remained unbeaten in league play coming into the FIVB Men’s Club Championship, and the final against Trentino was Nawrocki’s first lost as coach.

Nawrocki, 47, has led PGE Skra to seven consecutive Polish titles. He has two children – son Bartlomiej and daughter Aleksandra. A professional educator, when Nawroki first started his tenure as an assistant coach for PGE Skra he was still working as a primary school teacher.