Sparta was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece.
Pałac Bydgoszcz is a Polish women's volleyball club based in Bydgoszcz and plays in the Orlen Liga.
Athletic Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as Sparta Prague, is a Czech football club based in Prague.
Friedrich Egon (Fritz) Scherfke, was an ethnic German who became an interwar football midfield player for the Polish national football team. He is still one of the all time leading goalscorers of all time in the top Polish division with 131 goals.
The Penn State Nittany Lions are the athletic teams of Pennsylvania State University, except for the women's basketball team, known as the Lady Lions. The school colors are navy blue and white. The school mascot is the Nittany Lion. The intercollegiate athletics logo was commissioned in 1983.
Mirosław Orzechowski is a Polish politician. He was elected to Sejm on 25 September 2005 getting 3474 votes in 9 Łódź district, as a candidate from the League of Polish Families list. In Jarosław Kaczyński's government he was a deputy minister of national education.
1. FC Kattowitz was an ethnically German football club playing in what was Kattowitz, Silesia Province in Germany and was active during the inter-war period and World War II when the two countries struggled over control of the region. Established in 1905, the original club disappeared in 1945; a modern-day Polish club using the name 1. FC Katowice was formed in 2007.
Hélia Rogério de Souza, nicknamed Fofão, is a retired Brazilian female volleyball player who competed for her country's national team in five consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992. She won a gold medal in 2008 and twice won a bronze medal, in 1996 and 2000. She also claimed the gold medal at the 1999 Pan American Games.
Bethania de la Cruz de Peña is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with the Dominican women's national team at the 2009 NORCECA Championship and the 2010 Pan-American Cup.
Sidarka de los Milagros Núñez is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who played for the Women's National Team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. There her team ended up in fifth place. She claimed the gold medal at the 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup in Mexico, where she was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament.
Brenda Castillo is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic and plays as a libero. She was a member of the Dominican Republic national team that won fifth place in the 2012 Summer Olympics, while she was named the tournament's Best Libero. She played in the 2014 World Championship reaching also the fifth place and ranking 17th in the 2010 World Championship and the 2011 FIVB World Cup where her national team ranked eight and the 2015 FIVB World Cup, winning the Best Libero individual award and ranking in seventh place.
Milena Maria Radecka is a female Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland women's national volleyball team and Polish club Impel Wrocław, a participant of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, bronze medalist of European Championship 2009), Polish Champion.
MKS Polonia Świdnica is a Polish football club based in Świdnica, Poland. The club currently plays in III liga.
Bartosz Kamil Kurek is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team and Polish club ONICO Warszawa. He was a participant at the Olympic Games, and he is a 2018 World Champion, 2009 European Champion, a gold medalist of the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2011 World Cup, bronze medalist of the 2011 World League, 2011 European Championship and 2015 World Cup, three-time Polish Champion and Italian Champion (2014). In 2019, he became the first volleyball player to be voted the Polish Sports Personality of the Year.
Radosław Panas, Polish volleyball player (195 cm), one of the most experienced players in Polish Volleyball League. He played the position of the receiver, in a career last season (2004/05) as a libero.
Żyleta is a common name of a northern stand in the Polish Army Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, traditionally occupied by the most spontaneous and fanatical fans of Legia Warsaw football club. Before the stadium renovation (2008–2011), the “old” Żyleta referred only to the center section within the eastern stand of the stadium. There is a special exhibition dedicated to the "old" Żyleta in the Legia club museum. Today, after the stadium renovation, the “new” Żyleta means the whole northern stand of stadium.
Zbigniew Andrzej Bartman is a Polish volleyball player, a member of Poland men's national volleyball team in 2008–2013 and Argentine club UPCN Vóley Club, a participant at the 2012 Olympic Games, 2009 European Champion, a gold medalist at the 2012 World League, silver medalist of the 2011 World Cup, a bronze medalist of the 2011 World League, Polish Champion (2013), Argentine Champion (2018).
Women's soccer in the United States has developed quite differently from men's soccer. Until the 1970s, organized women's soccer matches in the United States existed only on a limited basis. The United States is now regarded as one of the top countries in the world for women's soccer, and FIFA ranked its national team No. 1 in the world after its championship victory in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Gamze Alikaya is a Turkish women's volleyball player. She is 179 cm (5.87 ft) tall at 68 kg (150 lb) and plays in the setter position. She played for Galatasaray S.K. before she transferred to Eczacıbaşı VitrA for the 2018–19 season. She is a member of the Turkey women's national volleyball team.
