Taylor Sander
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| Nickname | The Sandman | ||||
| Nationality | American | ||||
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March 17, 1992 Huntington Beach, California, United States |
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| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||
| Weight | 80 kg (180 lb) | ||||
| Spike | 345 cm (136 in) | ||||
| Block | 320 cm (130 in) | ||||
| College(s) | Brigham Young University | ||||
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| Position | Outside hitter | ||||
| Current team | Beijing Volleyball | ||||
| Number | 15 | ||||
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| Last updated: 7 February 2017 | |||||
Taylor Sander (born March 17, 1992) is an American volleyball player, a member of United States men's national volleyball team and Chinese club Beijing Volleyball, gold medalist of the 2014 World League and 2015 World Cup and bronze medal in Rio 2016.
Sander is the son of Steven and Kera Sander. He has an older sister, Britney Wardle, and a younger brother, Brenden, who also plays volleyball and is a current member of the BYU men's volleyball team. He graduated from Norco High School in Norco, California. At BYU Taylor majored in Global Studies. His parents are LDS, and he grew up LDS (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints—also known by the nickname Mormons). In July 2015, he married Rachel McQuivey, who represented the BYU Track & Field team as a long jumper and hurdler.
He was recruited by USC, Long Beach State, UC Irvine, and BYU. At Brigham Young University Sander was a four-time AVCA All-American (three first-team citations, one second-team citation), the 2014 AVCA Player of the Year, 2013 and 2014 MPSF Player of the Year, 2013 and 2014 MPSF Tournament MVP, and four-time All-MPSF First Team. He holds the BYU all-time single-match record for service aces (nine) and career service aces (182). In the rally-scoring era, is No. 1 at BYU in career kills (1,743), career attempts (3,464), career service aces (182), season attempts (1,021 in 2014), season service aces (55 in 2014) and aces in a match (nine).
Regarding his decision to attend BYU he said in January 2012, "Growing up in Huntington Beach (Calif.) I've always been a big BYU fan. I grew up LDS and with my parents being LDS, that was the school we always cheered for and I've always wanted to go to BYU since I was a kid."
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