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Barbora Wrzesiński
Barbora Wrzesiński (née Bálintová; born 15 December 1994) is a Slovak basketball player for Arka Gdynia. She was named Female Slovak Basketball Player of the Year four times in a row from 2018 to 2021. Biography Wrzesiński was born in Košice on 15 December 1994. She started playing basketball at the age of five. She studied finance at the Technical University of Košice, graduating in 2016. In July 2022 she married Arka Gdynia physio Norbert Wrzesiński. Basketball career Wrzesiński started her career with the team DANNAX Šport Košice in 2010. After the club dissolution in 2016, she joined the other Košice club Good Angels Košice, where she remained until 2018. While Wrzesiński was at Good Angles, the team dominated the Slovak league, winning the championship every session. In 2018, she joined Arka Gdynia, initially with a one-year contract, that was extended to three years. In 2021 she missed many games due to harsh complications from COVID-19 infection. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arka Gdynia (women's Basketball)
Arka Gdynia, currently known as VBW Gdynia for sponsorship reasons, is a Polish professional women's basketball club based in Gdynia. With 14 Polish Championships and 10 Polish Cups won (as of 2025), it is one of the country's most accomplished women's basketball clubs. It plays in the Orlen Basket Liga Kobiet, the highest division in Poland. in eurobasket.com 
History It was founded in 1946 in the city of as Spójnia Gdańsk. In 1992 the club moved from Gda ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Guard
The point guard (PG), also called the one or the point, is one of the Basketball positions, five positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position and is usually the shortest player on the court. Point guards are expected to control the pace of the game. They effectively "run" the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that it gets to the right player at the right time. Generally, point guards are expected to be proficient in passing the ball and being able to get Assist (basketball), assists to teammates. In a pick and roll offense, the point guard typically moves off of screens to facilitate the ball to a Power forward, big. Likewise, point guards can also shoot off of screens if given separation. In transition, the point guard must be able to pass and handle the ball without committing excessive turnovers. Defensively, the point guard is generally responsible for guarding above the Key (basketball), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish Women's Basketball League
Basket Liga Kobiet (BLK), officially known as the Orlen Basket Liga Kobiet (OBLK) due to its sponsorship by Orlen, is a professional women's club basketball league in Poland. It constitutes the first and highest-tier level of the Polish league pyramid. The winning team of the final round are crowned the Polish Champions of that season. The BLK, which is played under FIBA rules, currently consists of 10 teams (professional basketball's clubs). A BLK season is split into a league stage and a playoffs stage. At the end of the league stage, the top eight teams qualify for the playoff stage, while the remaining two face each other in a relegation play-out. History Founded in 1929, it has been carried out every year since except for 1936 and World War II. Wisła Kraków is the most successful team in the championship with 25 titles, followed by AZS Warsaw, Lotos Gdynia and ŁKS Łódź with fourteen, eleven and nine respectively. Gdynia holds the longest winning streak with eight titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Košice
Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest city in Slovakia, after the capital Bratislava. Being the economic and cultural centre of eastern Slovakia, Košice is the seat of the Košice Region and Košice Self-governing Region, it belongs to the :sk:Košicko-prešovská aglomerácia, Košice-Prešov agglomeration, and is home to the Constitutional Court of Slovakia, Slovak Constitutional Court, three universities, various dioceses, and many museums, galleries, and theatres. In 2013, Košice was the European Capital of Culture, together with Marseille, France. Košice is an important industrial centre of Slovakia, and the U. S. Steel Košice, s.r.o., U.S. Steel Košice steel mill is the largest employer in the city. The town has extensive railway connections and an Košice Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Good Angels Košice
Good Angels Košice, since 2018 playing as Young Angels Košice is a women's basketball team based in Košice, Slovakia that plays in Slovakia's domestic league and FIBA Europe’s EuroLeague Women. The team bears the name of a non-profit charitable organization Dobrý anjel (translated as ''Good Angel''). The team has gone by several names since its founding in 2001, including Delta VODS Košice (2002-2003), Delta ICP Košice (2003-2006), K Cero VODS Košice (2006-2007), Kosit 2013 Košice (2007-2008), Maxima Broker Košice (2008-2009), Dobri Anjeli Košice (2009-2011). Since 2011, the club has gone by the name Good Angels Košice and since 2018 play under the name Young Angels Košice. Championships * Middle European League (2): 2013, 2014 * EWBL (2): 2017, 2018 *Slovak Women's Basketball Extraliga (15): 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 *Slovakian Cup Winner (9): 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 Curre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USK Praha (women's Basketball)
USK Praha (official name: ZVVZ USK Praha) is a Czech professional women's basketball club that was founded in 1953 in the city of Prague. USK Praha plays in the Czech Women's Basketball League, Czech League, the highest competition in the Czech Republic. It is a 26-times national champion. On the international scene, the team’s greatest successes have been winning the Ronchetti Cup in the 1975/76 season, the EuroLeague Women, EuroLeague in the 2014/15 and 2024/25 seasons, and the FIBA Europe SuperCup Women, FIBA SuperCup in 2015. Since 2014, USK Praha’s home is Královka Arena. Before this, the team played at Hala Folimanka, Folimanka hall. Honours Domestic National Championships – 18 *Czechoslovak Women's Basketball Championship: **Winners (8) : 1970, 1973, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988, 1989 **Runner up (7) : 1971, 1972, 1975, 1981, 1986, 1987, 1990 *Czech Women's Basketball League: **Winners (18) : 1993, 1994, 1995, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married And Maiden Names
When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of their spouse, in some countries and cultures that name replaces the person's previous surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name ("birth name" is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted upon marriage. In some jurisdictions, changing names requires a legal process. When people marry or divorce, the legal aspects of changing names may be simplified or included, so that the new name is established as part of the legal process of marrying or divorcing. Traditionally, in the Anglophone West, women are far more likely to change their surnames upon marriage than men, but in some instances men may change their last names upon marriage as well, including same-sex couples. In this article, ''birth name'', ''family name'', ''surname'', ''married name'' and ''maiden name'' refer to patrilineal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Technical University Of Košice
Technical University of Košice () is the second largest university of technology in Slovakia. University Structure * Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnology * Faculty of Materials, Metallurgy and Recycling * Faculty of Mechanical Engineering * Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics * Faculty of Civil Engineering * Faculty of Economics * Faculty of Manufacturing Technologies * Faculty of Arts * Faculty of Aeronautics History of TUKE The Technical University of Košice was founded in 1952, but its roots must be sought much deeper in the past. As early as 1657, the Universitas Cassoviensis was established in Košice (Kassa), but technical education in the Kingdom of Hungary was only elevated to higher education level in 1762, when Maria Theresa − sovereign of Hungary − established the Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica (Selmecbánya). This provided education and promoted research activity in a group of scientific disciplines ranging f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EuroBasket Women 2017
The 2017 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2017, was the 36th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. The tournament was awarded to Czech Republic after winning the bid to Serbia. The tournament also serves as a qualification for the 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup in Spain, with the top five nations qualifying. As hosts Spain finished in the top five, the sixth placed team also qualified. The championship was reverted to a 16 teams championship, after the 20 teams that participated in 2015. Spain defeated France 71–55 in the final to win their third title. In total, 61 556 people visited this event. Bidding process The bids were as follows: * Czech Republic * Serbia On the 28 June 2015, Czech Republic won the hosting rights. Venues Qualification Qualified teams Draw The draw took place in Prague on 9 December 2016. Seedings Squads All rosters consisted of 12 playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
