Education
While swimming for the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team, Taormina earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1992 and an Master of Business Administration in 1994 from the University of Georgia (UGA).
While swimming for the Georgia Bulldogs swimming and diving team, Taormina earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1992 and an Master of Business Administration in 1994 from the University of Georgia (UGA).
She was inducted in 2015 into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame. Taormina competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She took sixth place with a total time of 2:02:45.91.
Her split times were 19:02.78 for the swim, 1:06:24.30 for the cycling, and 0:37:18.83 for the run.
In the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Taormina again competed in the triathlon. Her time was 2:09:21.08 as she finished in twenty-third place.
Post-Athens, Taormina embarked on a new sport, modern pentathlon, winning the women"s senior division of the 2005 Pan American Championships. She was successful in qualifying in the modern pentathlon for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, making her the first female athlete to qualify for the Olympics in three different sports.
Taormina finished 19th in the 2008 Olympic event.
At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she earned a gold medal as a member of the winning United States. team in the women"s 4×200-meter freestyle relay.