Marian Csorich

Marian Csorich
Date of birth	1st December 1979
place of birth	Gdansk , Poland
size	190 cm
Weight	104 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1996-1997	Olimpia Sosnowiec
1997-1998	KS Cracovia
1998-1999	SMS I Sosnowiec
1999-2000	Bismarck Bobcats
2000-2001	San Antonio Iguanas Border City Bandits
2001-2002	KTH Krynica
2002-2003	Podhale Nowy Targ
2003-2004	TKH Toruń
2004-2010	KS Cracovia
2010-2013	GKS Tychy

Marian Csorich (born December 1, 1979 in Gdansk ) is a former Polish ice hockey player who celebrated his greatest successes at KS Cracovia in Krakow and was most recently under contract with GKS Tychy in the Ekstraliga until 2013 . His grandfather Stefan Csorich was also a Polish national ice hockey player.

Career

Marian Csorich began his career as an ice hockey player in Sosnowiec , where he played with Olimpia in the East European Hockey League in 1996/97 . After a year at KS Cracovia , in whose second team he played in the second class I league , he returned to Sosnowiec in 1998 and also played for the team of the Polish Association's ice hockey academy in the I league. He then moved to the United States for two years, where he was on the ice first with the Bismarck Bobcats in the America West Hockey League and then for the Texas teams of the San Antonio Iguanas and the Border City Bandits in the Central Hockey League . In 2001 he returned to Poland and played in quick succession for the KTH Krynica , the parent club of his grandfather Stefan , Podhale Nowy Targ and the TKH Toruń . In 2004 he rejoined KS Cracovia. With the traditional club from Krakow he won the Polish championship title in 2006, 2008 and 2009 . In 2010 he moved to GKS Tychy , where he ended his career in 2013.

International

For Poland , Csorich took part in the junior division at the U18 B European Championships in 1996 and 1997 . In the senior sector, he was only more than a decade later, at the age of over 30, in his country's squad at the World Championships in Division I in 2010 and 2012 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 Polish champion with KS Cracovia
• 2008 Polish champion with KS Cracovia
• 2009 Polish champion with KS Cracovia

Ekstraliga statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	12	496	61	192	253	739
Playoffs	2	25th	1	3	4th	39

(Status: end of the 2012/13 season)

Web links

• Marian Csorich at hockeydb.com (English)
• Marian Csorich at eurohockey.com
• Marian Csorich at eliteprospects.com (English)