FISCHER Makenzie

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2019	Gwangju, KOR
1	Women	2017	Budapest, HUN
1	Women	2015	Kazan, RUS

World League - Super Final

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2021	Athens, GRE
1	Women	2019	Budapest, HUN
1	Women	2017	Shanghai, CHN

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2018	Surgut, RUS

Pan American Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2019	Lima, PER

Fish, Fishy (nbcolympics.com, 16 Jun 2016; Twitter profile, 09 Jul 2016)

Singing, dancing. (usawaterpolo.org, 26 Jul 2019)

Athlete

Mechanical Engineering - Stanford University, United States of America

English

Adam Krikorian [national], USA

Centre back (usawaterpolo.org, 01 Jun 2016, 17 May 2021)

Right (usawaterpolo.org, 01 Jun 2016)

Her father Erich represented the United States of America in water polo at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. Her younger sister Aria was a member of the US team [along with Makenzie] that won a gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Her mother Leslie played water polo at Stanford University. (usawaterpolo.org, 12 Aug 2015; gostanford.com, 01 Jan 2019; SportsDeskOnline, 14 Feb 2020)

She began playing water polo at age 10. (teamusa.org, 06 Jul 2016)

She wanted to follow in the footsteps of her father Erich. "I think I've wanted to be an Olympian ever since I figured out my dad was one. It was before I even understood what being an Olympian actually was, but I just knew that it was something special." (usawaterpolo.org, 26 Jul 2019; nbcolympics.com, 16 Jun 2016)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (usawaterpolo.org, 26 Jul 2019)

US footballer Mia Hamm. (usawaterpolo.org, 26 Jul 2019)

Her father Erich Fischer. (archivepyc.nbcolympics.com, 16 Jun 2016)

"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose." (usawaterpolo.org, 12 Aug 2015)

While competing for Stanford University, she received the 2019 Peter J. Cutino Award as the top collegiate water polo player in the United States of America. She was also named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the 2019 National Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] Championship and 2019 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation [MPSF] Player of the Year, and received the Stanford Athletics Al Masters Award, presented to the Stanford student-athlete who attains the highest standards of athletic performance, leadership and academic achievement. (usawaterpolo.org, 01 Jan 2020; gostanford.com, 01 Jan 2019)

She was named MVP of the 2017 World League. (fina.org, 11 Jun 2017)