Background
Tait was born in Perth, Western Australia, one of four children of Simon and Barbara Outhwaite.
Tait was born in Perth, Western Australia, one of four children of Simon and Barbara Outhwaite.
She was educated at Street Hilda"s Anglican School for Girls in Perth.
She began rowing in 1997, at the age of 14. At the 500m mark of their race, Tait and Hornsey were in fourth place, but moved up to third place at the 1000m mark. In the last 500m of their race, the pair passed New Zealand"s world champions Rebecca Scown and Juliette Haigh, to finish second behind Britain"s Heather Stanning and Helen Glover.
She also secured a bronze in the coxless pairs at the 2011 World Rowing Championships in Lake Bled.
Tait captained the Australian women"s rowing team at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and the 2010 and 2011 World Rowing Championships. As she was determined to compete in the 2012 Olympics, she continued to train up until the last three weeks of pregnancy, and returned to her training schedule five months after giving birth.
Although she had initially returned to rowing after undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatment, she was later advised to retire from the sport to undergo further treatment. She was a mother. Her father, Simon Outhwaite, was an Australian rules football player for South Fremantle Football Club.
Tait died on 3 March 2016, aged 33, in Melbourne, Victoria.
She had been diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2013.
Tait"s first rowing success was in 2000, aged 17, when she won a silver medal in the Junior Women's Four at the World Rowing Junior Championships in Zagreb, Croatia. Tait competed at the Summer Olympics three times, in the women"s eights at the 2004 and 2008 games and in the women"s coxless pairs at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, where she won a silver medal with Kate Hornsey. Tait won gold in the women"s eights at the 2005 World Rowing Championships in Gifu, Japan, along with a silver in the coxless pairs (with Natalie Bale).
