Jarosław Kłys

Jarosław Kłys
Date of birth	July 23, 1977
place of birth	Nowe
size	181 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1996	SMS Sosnowiec
1996-1997	Olimpia Sosnowiec
1997-2006	Unia Oświęcim
2006-2007	KS Toruń
2007-2011	KS Cracovia
2011–2012	Actually Unia Oświęcim
2012-2015	KS Cracovia

Jarosław Kłys (born July 23, 1977 in Nowe ) is a former Polish ice hockey player who was several times Polish ice hockey champion both with his youth club Aksam Unia Oświęcim and KS Cracovia from Krakow .

Career

Jarosław Kłys began his career as a hockey player in the youth department of Unia Oświęcim . At the age of 18 he went to Sosnowiec to the Polish ice hockey academy , for whose first team he played in the Ekstraliga . In the 1996/97 season he played with Olimpia Sosnowiec in the East European Hockey League . He then returned to Auschwitz and played for almost a decade with his youth club Unia, with which he was Polish champions seven times in a row from 1998 to 2004 . In 2000 and 2003 he also won the Polish cup competition with the club . After he spent the 2006/07 season at KS Toruń , he played - with the exception of the 2011/12 season, in which he was again active for Aksam Unia Oświęcim - for KS Cracovia until the end of his career in 2015 . With the club from the traditional university city of Kraków , he won the Polish championship title again in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013 and the cup competition in 2014. In 2011 he was nominated for the Ekstraliga all-star team .

International

For Poland, Kłys took part in the junior division at the U18-A-European championships in 1994 and the U18-B-European championships in 1995 and the U20 world championships in 1997 .

He played with the men's national team at the B World Championship in 1999 and, after the changeover to the current division system, at the World Championships in Division I in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 and 2011 . He also represented his colors in the Olympic qualification for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 Polish champion with Unia Oświęcim
• 1999 Polish champion with Unia Oświęcim
• 2000 Polish champion and cup winner with Unia Oświęcim
• 2001 Polish champion with Unia Oświęcim
• 2002 Polish champion with Unia Oświęcim
• 2003 Polish champion and cup winner with Unia Oświęcim
• 2004 Polish champion with the Unia Oświęcim
• 2008 Polish champion with KS Cracovia
• 2009 Polish champion with KS Cracovia
• 2011 Polish champion with KS Cracovia
• 2011 Ekstraliga All-Star Team
• 2013 Polish champion with KS Cracovia
• 2014 Polish Cup winner with KS Cracovia

Ekstraliga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	19th	513	48	109	1537	738
Playoffs	5	43	2	8th	10	54

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• Jarosław Kłys at eurohockey.com
• Jarosław Kłys at eliteprospects.com (English)