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Taylor McQuillin

American softball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ64917700
Source-derived summary

Taylor Elizabeth McQuillin (born October 17, 1996) is a Mexican-American professional softball player for the Chicago Bandits of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League (AUSL). She played college softball at Arizona, where she was a starting pitcher. In her senior year, McQuillin led Arizona softball to a berth in the 2019 Women's College World Series after being absent for nearly a decade.

After graduating from college, McQuillin was selected sixth overall by the Cleveland Comets in the second round of the 2019 NPF Draft. McQuillin is a member of the Mexico women's national softball team that placed fourth at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She played in the inaugural season of Athletes Unlimited Softball league.

Early life

McQuillin attended Mission Viejo High School. McQuillin is legally blind in her left eye due to Duane syndrome.

College career

At Arizona, McQuillin began her career as a Third-Team All-Pac-12 performer. She debuted on February 12, 2016, throwing a shutout with 6 strikeouts against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Taylor McQuillin” as american softball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2019, 2020, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-10. The account is most persuasive where Taylor, McQuillin and American can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american softball player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64917700. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2019, 2020 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Taylor McQuillin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.