Taylor Pischke
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| Full name | Taylor Mackenzie Pischke | ||||||
| Born |
April 18, 1993 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | ||||||
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) | ||||||
| College(s) |
UCSB University of Manitoba | ||||||
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Taylor Mackenzie Pischke (born April 18, 1993 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a female Canadian volleyball player.[1]
The daughter of Garth Pischke, a two-time Olympian with Canada men's national volleyball team,[2] and a current coach of the University of Manitoba's male team, Pischke first practiced rhythmic gymnastics before taking up her father's sport at the age of 14.[3] After attending Fort Richmond Collegiate, Pischke played university volleyball for UCSB,[1] and later the University of Manitoba.[4] Her departure from California after one semester on the indoor team was because there was no opportunity to play beach during the second semester when the NCAA sand program at UCSB did not become a collegiate sport. Pischke was on a double scholarship at UCSB to play on their indoor and beach volleyball teams.[5]With Manitoba, she won the CIS National Championship Title in 2014.[4]
Pischke currently plays on Team Canada's beach volleyball squad with Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto. John Child, who competed in three Olympic Games and won a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games, is the team's coach.[3] Along with Humana-Paredes, Pischke won two bronze medals at the under 23 World Championship (2013 and 2014),[6] and seven medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit between 2013 and 2015.[7][8] Both also finished fourth at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.[9]
Pischke also appeared in Sportnet Magazine's 2013 issue of "Beauty of Sport".[10] and is a student at the University of Manitoba studying in the Faculty of Science. In 2015, Pischke competed on the FIVB World Tour in eleven Grand Slam and Open events, reaching the round of 16 and a 9th place finish at the 2015 Beach Volleyball World Championships.
References
- 1 2 "Women's Volleyball – 5 Taylor Pischke". UCSB Gauchos.
- ↑ "Sport Reference".
- 1 2 Volleyball lineage flows through Canada’s budding beach duo
- 1 2 "15 Taylor Pischke". University of Manitoba Bisons.
- ↑
- ↑ "Taylor Pischke". FIVB.
- ↑ "Taylor Pischke and beach volleyball partner Humana, win the final leg of the 2014 NORCECA Beach volleyball circuit". Canadian Sports Centre Manitoba.
- ↑
- ↑ Pischke and partner lose bronze medal volleyball match at Pan Am Games
- ↑ "2013 Beauty of Sport". Sportsnet.