Background
Nicknamed "Little Girl" because of her size, Taylor was born on 23 March 1990 in Mount Kuring-gai, New South Wales. She has ocular albinism and nystagmus, conditions she was born with, and is 156 centimetres (61 in) tall.
Nicknamed "Little Girl" because of her size, Taylor was born on 23 March 1990 in Mount Kuring-gai, New South Wales. She has ocular albinism and nystagmus, conditions she was born with, and is 156 centimetres (61 in) tall.
In 2009, after only a month playing the sport, Taylor was named to the New South Wales team She made the national team in 2011 and has played in the 2010 World Championships, 2011 IBSA World Cup and 2011 IBSA Africa Oceania Regional Champions. She was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in goalball.
Taylor has participated in two extreme sports: skydiving and bungee jumping.
In 2011 and 2012, she lived in Normanhurst, New South Wales. In 2012, she worked as a teacher"s aide.
Taylor is a goalball player, and is a winger and centre. She is classified as a B3 competitor, and has a goalball scholarship with the New South Wales Institute of Sport.
Only when she got to high school, in August 2009, did she start playing the sport.
After only a month playing the sport, Taylor was selected for the New South Wales team that competed at the 2009 National Championships, where she was the second leading scorer in what was her first major competition. Playing again for New South Wales, she competed in the 2011 National Championships, and was named the tournament"s Most Valuable Player. At the 2012 Australian National Championships, her New South Wales team finished second, and she was awarded the Ladies" Most Valuable Player and the Kenaghan Medal, which was awarded at the end of the tournament. Taylor made her national team debut in 2010 at the World Championships in Britain.
lieutenant was the first time the national team had played in three years.
The team finished sixth at the 2011 IBSA World Cup, where she scored her first international goal in a game against the Spain women"s national goalball team She competed in the 2011 IBSA Africa Oceania Regional Champions that were hosted in Turkey, which served as the Paralympic qualifying tournament.
She scored one goal in the team"s victory. She played in the game against New Zealand women"s national goalball team with Taylor scoring a pair of goals in the game.
Taylor was named to the Aussie Belles that was going to the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
That the team qualified for the Games came as a surprise, as the Australian Paralympic Committee had been working on player development with an idea of the team qualifying for the 2016 Summer Paralympics, and an Australian team had not participated since the 2000 Summer Paralympics, when they earned an automatic selection as hosts, and the team finished last in the competition. Going into the Paralympics, her team was ranked eighth in the world. Taylor debuted the national team"s Paralympic uniform on 1 May 2012 at the Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal on day two of the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Australia Spring/Summer 2012/13.
In the 2012 Summer Paralympics tournament, the Belles played games against Japan, Canada, the United States and Sweden.
They lost every game, and did not advance to the finals.