Katarzyna Skowrońska Dolata

Personal life

Skowrońska was born in Warszawa, Poland. On June 17, 2006 married to Jakub Dolata, who is her manager.

Career

She became interested in volleyball as a teenager, when she saw her brother, who began to train this sport. She began her career as an attacker at the club Skra Warszawa, where her coach was Teofil Czerwiński. As a 15 years old Skowrońska went to the School of Sports Championship Polish Volleyball Federation in Sosnowiec and started to play as a middle blocker. Her first success when she was a student of this school was the gold medal of Cadet European Championship 1999 and Junior European Championship 2000. In 2003 debuted in Polish national team. In year of her debut she won a title of European Champion 2003 in Ankara, Turkey. In 2001-2003 was a player of AZS AWF Danter Poznań and won with this club a silver medal of Polish Championship in season 2002/2003. Then after two seasons 2003-2005 in Polish club Nafta-Gaz Piła and winning a bronze medal of Polish Championship 2004/2005 she moved to Italian League to Vicenza Volley, where spent season 2005/2006. In 2005 Polish natioan team repeated success from 2003 and Skowrońska won the second title of European Champion 2005 in Zagreb, Croatia. For her sport achievements, she received the Golden Cross of Merit in 2005 by Aleksander Kwaśniewski. In 2007 Skowrońska achieve a title of Best Scorer in FIVB World Cup despite the fact that Poland has not won a qualifications for the Olympic Games. In 2007/2008 won a bronze medal of CEV Champions League and a title of Best Scorer in this tournament with Asystel Novara. In 2008 played at Olympic Games 2008, but Polish women's national team was eliminated in the group stage. In 2008-2010 played for Italian Scavolini Pesaro. In 2008/2009 won a SuperCup 2008, Italian Cup and her first title of Italian Champion. In 2009/2010 won SuperCup 2009 and a second title of Italian Champion with the same team. Season 2010/2011 spent in Turkish Fenerbahçe Acıbadem Istanbul. Katarzyna won the 2010 FIVB World Club Championship, played in Doha, Qatar. She earned the Most Valuable Player and the Best Scorer awards. Skowrońska won the bronze medal with Fenerbahçe Acıbadem at the CEV Champions League 2010/2011. In the same season won a title of Turkish Champion. In 2011 moved to Chinese club - Guangdong Evergrande. With this club won a title of Chinese Champion 2011/2012, silver medal of Chinese Championship 2012/2013 and Asian Club Championship 2013. In 2013 moved to Azeri Rabita Baku. She won the bronze medal of the CEV Champions League 2013/2014 after losing match (0-3) against Russian Dinamo Kazan in the semifinals, but defeating 3-0 to the Turkish Eczacıbaşı VitrA Istanbul in the third place match. Skowrońska won a title of Azeri Champion 2013/2014 after winning match 3-0 against Baki-Azeryol and Skowrońska was Best Scorer and Most Valuable Player of the final series. In March 2014 Skowrońska-Dolata signed a new one-year contract with Rabita. In season 2013/2014 she achieved title of Azeri Champion and bronze medal of CEV Champions League.

In May 2015 she signed a contract with Polish club Impel Wrocław. She came back to Polish league after 10 years. She took part in 1st edition of European Games. In semi final her national team beat Serbia and qualified to final match. On June 27, 2015 Poland was beaten by Turkey and Skowrońska-Dolata with her team mates achieved silver medal.

CEV Champions League

FIVB Club World Championship

Asian Club Championship

National championships

National team

Individually

State awards