Atom Trefl Sopot was a Polish women's

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Sum ...

club based in

Sopot Sopot is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, and has the status of the county, being the smallest ci ...

and playing in the

Orlen Liga * Orlen Basket Liga, the Polish Basketball League name from 2023 *Polish Women's Volleyball League The Polish Women's Volleyball League, known for sponsorship reasons as TAURON Liga (previously known as Orlen Liga and PlusLiga Kobiet) is the h ...

Previous names

Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names: * Trefl Gdynia (2008–2009) * Trefl Sopot (2009–2010) * Atom Trefl Sopot (2010–2014) * PGE Atom Trefl Sopot (2014–2016) * Atom Trefl Sopot (2016–2017)

History

The club was founded in 2008 as and since its creation is a project designed to focus on professional sport at the highest league. The club reached the top Polish league after two seasons, in 2010 and achieved league success shortly after, winning the Championship in 2011–12 and 2012–13. The club proved to be very competitive at the highest national level as on its first six seasons (from 2010 until 2016), apart from the two titles mentioned earlier, it finished the league no lower than third placed. In the same period, it has also reached the Polish Cup finals on four occasions (winning in 2014–15) and was involved in three Polish Super Cups. In international competitions the club has yet to win a title, it has been often featuring in European competitions with a second place at the 2014–15 CEV Cup as its best result. In 2017 club replaced by Proxima Kraków and changed name on Trefl Proxima Kraków. This new club had promoted from I liga.

Honours

National competitions

Polish Championship: 2 :2011–12, 2012–13 * Polska Kokarda Narodowa typ IVa

Polish Cup The Polish Cup in football ( pl, Puchar Polski w piłce nożnej ) is an elimination tournament for Polish football clubs, held continuously from 1950, and is the second most important national title in Polish football after the Ekstraklasa title. ...

: 1 :2014–15

Team

''Season 2016–2017, as of February 2017.''

Notable players

* Izabela Bełcik * Eleonora Dziękiewicz * Zuzanna Efimienko * Klaudia Kaczorowska * Paulina Maj *

Anna Podolec Anna Barbara Miros (née Podolec) (born 30 October 1985) is a Polish volleyball player. She plays for MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza (volleyball), MKS Dąbrowa Górnicza in Poland and is also a member of Poland women's national volleyball team. She won t ...

* Dorota Pykosz *

Magdalena Śliwa Magdalena Joanna Śliwa (née Szryniawska; born 17 November 1969) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1990–2007, double European Champion ( 2003, 2005), three-time Polish Champion (1994, 1995, ...

Dorota Świeniewicz Dorota Świeniewicz (born 27 July 1972) is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team in 1991–2009, double European Champion (2003, 2005), Polish Champion (1996, 2010), Italian Champion (2003, 2005). Perso ...

* Maja Tokarska * Sylwia Wojcieska * Mariola Zenik * Rachel Rourke *

Charlotte Leys Charlotte Leys (born 18 March 1989) is a Belgian female volleyball player. She was a member of the Belgium women's national volleyball team and played for Atom Trefl Sopot in 2014. Now she's a member of the Hermes Volley Oostende in the new sea ...

Érika Coimbra Érika Kelly Pereira "Kiki" Coimbra (born March 23, 1980 in Belo Horizonte) is a volleyball player who competed for Brazil in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympic Games, and at the 1999 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Cup. She is a free agent. Coim ...

* Noris Cabrera * / Kinga Maculewicz * /

Margareta Kozuch Margareta "Maggie" Kozuch ( pl, Małgorzata Kożuch; born 30 October 1986) is a German female volleyball player who played for Atom Trefl Sopot, and previously played as a wing-spiker for TuS Berne Hamburg, CVMJ Hamburg, TV Fischbek (who chang ...

* Corina Ssuschke-Voigt * Simona Rinieri *

Judith Pietersen Judith Pietersen (born 3 July 1989 in Eibergen) is a Dutch volleyball player, who plays as an opposite. She is a member of the Women's National Team, and competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics. She plays for Volley Millenium Brescia. She learned ...

* Olga Fateeva * Amaranta Fernández * / Yulia Shelukhina *

Alisha Glass Alisha Rebecca Glass Childress (born April 5, 1988) is an American former professional volleyball player who played as a setter for the United States women's national volleyball team. Glass played collegiate volleyball for Penn State, where she ...

Megan Hodge Megan Hodge Easy (born October 15, 1988) is an American indoor volleyball player who won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics with the US team and played for Pennsylvania State University's volleyball team. Currently, she plays in Brazilian ...

* Meryem Boz * Neriman Özsoy * Kimberly Hill

References

External links

Official website
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