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wboarders for the first time. From the very beginning, I was captivated by the freedom of movement people had on boards. I convinced my dad to buy me a snowboard." Coached by her father, she was a member of the club Beskidzkiego Stow. Snowboardu. At age 15, she participated at the first Polish Championships, winning two gold medals in the junior slalom event. In 1993, she competed in the senior category at the national championships and won gold in the slalom and giant slalom. Rosiak attended High School No. 7 in Gliwice and later the University of Physical Education in Katowice. In January 1994, she competed at the Junior World Championships at Rogla Ski Resort in Slovenia, winning the silver medal behind Heidi Renoth in the parallel slalom while finishing fourth in the combined event. She was the top Polish performer at the Junior Championships and helped the team finish eighth place out of 18 participating nations. Rosiak competed at the Slovenian championships a few days later and won a gold medal. She won the 1994 Polish championship in the slalom, giant slalom, parallel slalom and finished as runner-up in the combined event. Later that year, at the World Cup, she missed out on the finals in the parallel slalom by a half-second. At the end of the 1994–95 World Cup season, Rosiak was ranked the fourth-best female snowboarder in the world in combined, with Michelle Taggart taking first place. Her ranking was the highest any Polish snowboarder had ever achieved by that time. In 1995, she won bronze at the Junior World Championships in Zakopane. She also won a bronze medal at the World Championships in combined, won four me