Taylor Mackenzie Pischke is a female Canadian volleyball player.
Background
The daughter of Garth Pischke, a two-time Olympian with Canada men"s national volleyball team, 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.
Career
After attending Fort Richmond Collegiate, Pischke played university volleyball for UCSB, and later the University of Manitoba. 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 National Collegiate Athletic Association sand program at UCSB did not become a collegiate sport. Pischke currently plays on Team Canada"s beach volleyball squad with Melissa Humana-Paredes of Toronto.
Both also finished fourth at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto and the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia.
Pischke also appeared in Sportnet Magazine"s 2013 issue of "Beauty of Sport". 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.