A young barstool employee died at the age of 28, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy revealed on Thursday.
Iga Obrycka, who was the general manager of Barstool Nashville, died this week “suddenly,” according to Portnoy.
An online obituary stated that Obrycka had died on Wednesday in Nashville and no cause of death was given.
“Iga basically ran our Bar group for us,” Portnoy wrote on X. “If you ever went to Barstool Nashville you probably saw her there. I would have hired her for any position she wanted at our company because she was that smart and driven. Just incredibly sad news and another cruel reminder not to take a minute for granted. RIP Iga.”
In addition to her role with Barstool Nashville, she was the chief marketing officer at Stanton & Bowery Hospitality group, according to her social media.
Obrycka came to the United States in the early 2000s after being born in Poland.
She was raised in New York City and relocated to Nashville in 2020, the Daily Mail reported, and she spent nearly nine years working for the Tao Group Hospitality.
After she moved to Nashville she eventually opened Barstool Nashville in 2023.
“We lost the leader, heart, and soul of Barstool Nashville, Iga Obrycka. Our heart goes out to her family, those that she was born into and those of us she chose to be in her life. There will never be another like her and she will be with us always,” a tribute on Barstool Nashville’s Instagram page read.
She was also praised as a “lamp of kindness and generosity” and that her “sudden passing created a deep empty space in every soul with whom she came in contact.”
Barstool Sports suffered another sad passing after Jonathan Stanko lost his battler with cancer earlier this month at age 32.
