Star Volleyball Player Dies at Age 26
Agata Mróz
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Agata Mróz, a member of the women’s national volleyball team that won European titles in 2003 and 2005, died on Wednesday in a Wrocław hospital just two weeks after a bone marrow transplant intended to treat her progressing illness.
“She had been unconscious for the last two days,” teammate Małgorzata Niemczyk-Wolska told the Dziennik daily.
Mróz had been suffering from from a rare marrow disease for nine years, but continued her sports career despite it, helping the national side, which success-starved Polish fans had dubbed the “Golden Girls”, win two European titles. In her club career she also won several Polish and Spanish titles. She only quit her career in 2007, after being diagnosed with full-blown leukaemia.
Two months before her death she gave birth to a daughter, Liliana.
Agata Mróz in 2008 
Agata Mróz, who together with Poland's national team won the European women's volleyball championships in 2003 and 2005, died on June 4 in a Wrocław hospital just two weeks after a bone marrow transplant intended to treat her progressing acute myeloid leukemia. She had myelodysplastic syndrome since childhood.

Polish fans dubbed the national team on which Mróz played the "Golden Girls", both due to their looks and their successes in international competitions.

Her club career had been equally successful, with two Polish and one Spanish championships under her belt.

She gave birth to a daughter two months before her death.