Sport: Triathlon
Birthday: February 14th, 1998
Hometown: Washington, DC.
College: Cornell ’20, BA in Psychology
Winner 2021 World Triathlon Championship Series Yokohama. Second place, 2019 Santo Domingo ITU Triathlon World Cup. 2018 ITU Under-23 world champion.
Tokyo will be Taylor’s first Olympic Games. She is the youngest triathlete ever to compete for the USA at the Olympics, and the youngest triathlete to be selected for the US national team. She began competing in triathlon as a child, inspired by her mother’s performance in an IRONMAN race. She ran NCAA Division I cross country and track while a student at Cornell.
Taylor finished 16th overall in the women’s triathlon at the Tokyo Games, with a time of 2:00:59. Also, Taylor and her teammates, Katie Zaferes (NYAC), Morgan Pearson (NYAC), and Kevin McDowell, secured a silver medal for Team USA in Tokyo with an overall time of 1:23:55 in the Mixed Relay.