Radetskaya, Milena

Play career

She graduated from high school number 52 (now gymnasium number 15) in Katowice-Giszowce. She made her first steps in sports under the leadership of Mark Yamborsky ^[1] . In the fourth grade, she set a school record for long jump, jumping by as much as 4 meters ^[2] . I chose volleyball as the most preferred sport, starting training in the “Kaleyaz” team. Initially, she acted as a blocker, after graduating from high school she continued her studies at the school of sportsmanship in Sosnowiec. In the school team, she played the position of an attacker, but in the second grade of the school, her mentor Andrzej Pécs, on the advice of the national team coach Zbigniewva Kzyžanowski, transferred to the position of a tie ^[1] .

As a player of the club PZPS, Milena received her first call in the junior team ^[1] . As a member of the national team in 2001, she won the silver of the European Championship in the Czech Republic, a year later in the youth national team won the European Championship in Croatia. In 2003 she won a bronze medal at the World Championships in Thailand. She came to the main team rather late in May 2007, when the team was led by Marco Bonitta, but she quickly took up a binding position and was almost never inferior. As part of the Polish national team, she won bronze medals at the 2009 European Championship, competed at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, and went to the 2010 World Championships in Japan.

At the club level has achieved considerable success, speaking for the Polish clubs "BCS-Steel", "PTPS-Pharma" and "BPS Mushinyanka Fakro". In 2009, she left for the Romanian Metal from Galati, but because of the huge financial problems she didn’t really gain a foothold in the club, and after his bankruptcy she returned to Poland in Mushinyanka. Studies in Bielsko-Biala in the Graduate School of Administration. From 2012 to 2014 she played in Azerbaijan, from 2014 she represents the Italian “ Foppapedretti Bergamo ”.

Personal life

In December 2007, she married programmer Marcin Mikolajczyk ^[2] , whom she divorced a year and a half later. On June 3, 2011, she married Yakub Radetsky for the second time ^[3] . In November 2011, she appeared naked for Playboy magazine , following the example of her friend Anna Verblinskaya .

•   Koleyazh (Katowice)
•   PZPS (Sosnowiec) (1999-2003)
•   BCS-Steel (Bielsko-Biala) (2003-2008)
•   PTPS-Pharmaceut (Saw) (2008-2009)
•   Metal (Galati) (2009)
•   BPS-Mushinyanka Fakro (Mushina) (2010-2012)
•   Azerrail (Baku) (2012-2013)
•   Lokomotiv (Baku) : (2013-2014)
•   Foppapedretti Bergamo (2014-present)

In the national team

•   Silver medalist of the 2001 European Youth Championship in the Czech Republic
•   Bronze medalist of the 2001 World Youth Championship in Croatia
•   European champion youth 2002 in Croatia
•   Bronze medalist at the World Youth Championship 2003 in Thailand
• 4th place at the 2007 European Championships in Belgium and Luxembourg
• Participant of the Olympic Games 2008
•   Winner of the Piedmont Cup 2009
• Participant of the World Cup 2010 in Japan
•   Bronze medalist of the European Championship 2009 in Poland
• 4th place in the Boris Yeltsin Cup 2011

Clubhouse

•   Champion of Poland (2004, 2011)
•   Silver medalist of the Polish Championship (2012)
•   Bronze medalist of the Polish Championship (2007, 2009)
•   The winner of the Polish Cup (2004, 2006, 2011)
•   The winner of the Polish Super Cup (2006, 2008, 2011)

Individual

• The best tie volleyball player of Poland in 2007 and 2009 according to the magazine Super Volley

• Official site (inaccessible link) (Polish)