Education
Taylor has been re-signed for the Bachelor of Dental Surgery Logan Thunder in the Women"s National Basketball League (WNBL) for 2011/2012.
Taylor has been re-signed for the Bachelor of Dental Surgery Logan Thunder in the Women"s National Basketball League (WNBL) for 2011/2012.
She scored five points in the game they played against China, which they were defeated 80-63. She played for the University of Limerick in the Irish Superleague in the 2010/2011 season after previously playing for the Bachelor of Dental Surgery Logan Thunder in the 2008-2009 & 2009-2010 WNBL seasons. In 2007 Taylor returned to New Zealand to debut for the New Zealand Tall Ferns national basketball team and play for the inaugural Christchurch Sirens in the WNBL. She was Most Valuable Player for New Zealand"s Women"s Basketball League (WBL) in 2007.
She captained her Southeast Missouri State women"s basketball team in the 2004-2005 & 2005-2006 National Collegiate Athletic Association seasons and broke school history by making the National Collegiate Athletic Association tournament for the first time in 2006 with an opening game against Stanford University.
She is the younger sister of fellow New Zealand female professional basketball player and Latter-day Saint Charmian Mellars.
She was a member of New Zealand women"s national basketball team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.