Name: Makenzie Fischer

Position: Attacker

Sport: Water Polo

Height: 6-1

Weight: 165

DOB: 3/29/1997

Birthplace: Laguna Beach, Calif.

Hometown: Laguna Beach, Calif.

High School: Laguna Beach High School (Laguna Beach, Calif.) ‘15

College: Stanford University ‘20, Mechanical Engineering

Team/Club: Stanford University

Olympic Experience

• Two-time Olympian (2016, 2020); two-time Olympic medalist (2 gold)
• Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, gold
• Olympic Games Rio 2016, gold

World Championship Experience

• Most recent: 2019 – gold
• Years of participation: 2015, 2017, 2019
• Medals: 3 (3 golds)
• Gold – 2019; 2017; 2015

Other Career Highlights

• Pan American Games Toronto 2015, gold

Personal: Daughter of Leslie and Erich Fischer...Has one sister, Aria, who is also a fellow 2016 Olympic gold medalist and competes with Makenzie at Stanford and on the U.S. Women’s National Water Polo Team...Father represented Team USA at the 1992 Olympic Games in water polo…Mother played for the Cardinal women's water polo team when it was a club sport…Passionate about the environment…Nickname is “Fish.”

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