Career
Szczepańska trained under the tutelage of head coach Jerzy Skucha for the national team, while competing at AZS AWFiS Gdańsk. Szczepańska qualified for the Polish squad in the women"s heptathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Two months before the Games, she eclipsed the IAAF Olympic "B" standard and her personal record of 6115 points to place second behind gold medalist Yuliya Ignatkina of Russia at the European Cup in Hengelo, Netherlands, resulting to her official selection to the Polish Olympic team in track and field
Szczepańska could only manage to produce substantial events for the remaining events of the competition, until she finally landed herself to twenty-first place with a total score of 6012 points.