Terry Liskevych
| Sport(s) | Volleyball |
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| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Oregon State University |
| Conference | Pac-12 Conference |
| Record | 402–294 (college) 337–281 (national team) |
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October 14, 1948 Munich, Germany |
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Taras “Terry” Liskevych (Lis-KEHV-ich) (born October 14, 1948, in Munich, Germany) served as the United States women's national volleyball team head coach from 1985 to 1996. During his tenure Liskevych posted over 300 international victories.
The highlights of these victories were:
Leading up to his National Team career, Liskevych coached men's volleyball at The Ohio State University (1974–1976), where he twice took the team to the NCAA tournament Final Four in 1975 and 1976 and posted a two-year record of 45–7 (.865 winning percentage). In the fall of 1976 he switched to the women's collegiate game and began his coaching career at the University of the Pacific in . He was there for nine seasons (1976–1985) and accumulated a record of 267–85 (.759) as University of the Pacific finished top five in the nation six of his nine years. While at Pacific (UOP), Liskevych was an assistant professor in the Physical Education and Recreation Department (1976–1981), was an assistant athletic director, supervising the women's programs and overseeing athletic marketing – 1982–1984.
After his National Team career Liskevych worked in the business world as the president of Paragon Marketing (1997–2000), co-founder, vice president and president of ARK Digital Technologies (1998–2003), then as the co-founder and president of Total Sports Inc. (2003–2005). In 2005 he made his return to coaching volleyball and is now the head women's volleyball coach at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. He coached for eleven years retiring in August 2016.
Liskevych was born in a displaced person’s camp in Munich, Germany, to a family of refugees from the Ukraine who fled to Germany during the Soviet invasion of Western Ukraine in 1944. In 1951, when Taras was three, the family immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago, Illinois. Growing up, Liskevych led a life fairly typical of a post-World War II Eastern European immigrant child – attending a local grammar school St. Nicholas and going to Ukrainian language school on Saturdays. He was a member of the Ukrainian scouting organization “Plast”, where he became an eagle scout. His sports activities were centered in the Diaspora playing table tennis, tennis, soccer and volleyball. Liskevych attended St. Ignatius High School, where he played on the varsity tennis team and at the same time played soccer for the Chicago Lions. He continued to play soccer at Loyola University (1965–66) and also played in the Chicago Major Division for the Lions Soccer Club.
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