 Lauren Taylor |
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Hometown:
Manhasset, N.Y.
High School:
Manhasset
College:
Yale '08
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Height:
5-10
Position:
Assistant Coach
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Lauren Taylor joined the Yale coaching staff in the Fall of
2008. She is one of the most decorated women's lacrosse players in
Yale history, having earned three All-America selections while
leading the Bulldogs to a 43-22 record and one NCAA Tournament
appearance over the past four seasons. "I have come to know Lauren
over the last few months and am excited to have her join this
talented coaching staff," said Anne Phillips, Yale's Joel E.
Smilow, Class of 1954 Head Coach of Women's Lacrosse. "I am looking
forward to having her share her skill and tremendous knowledge of
the game with a new generation of Yalies. She knows exactly what it
is takes to succeed as a student-athlete at Yale. Her new role as
coach will allow her to continue to contribute to the proud
tradition of the Yale Women's Lacrosse program." Taylor finished
her career with 198 goals and 246 points, placing second to Tracy
Ball '81 on Yale's all-time lists in both categories. She received
the Nellie Elliot Award as the top senior female student-athlete at
Yale last spring. Taylor was a first team All-Ivy League selection
for the fourth straight year in 2008, becoming just the fourth
player in league history to accomplish that feat. She won the
Barbara Bowditch Award as Yale's team MVP for the second straight
time, leading the Bulldogs with 41 goals and 59 points. This was
the fourth straight season she has led Yale in both of those
categories. Taylor, who was named ESPN The Magazine Academic
All-District for the second time this year, received her B.A. in
history of science/history of medicine this past spring. She is
part of a unique five-year academic program at Yale and will
receive a Masters degree in public health from Yale in 2009. Prior
to Yale Taylor attended Manhasset High School. Playing
Career
2008: Recipient of Nellie
Elliot Award as Yale's top senior female student-athlete ...
Received third IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-America selection (second
team) ... Second team WomensLacrosse.com All-American ... ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-District I first team ... Academic All-Ivy
League ... Tewaaraton Trophy watch list ... IWLCA All-Northeast
Region first team for the third time ... Unanimous first team
All-Ivy League selection, becoming fourth player in league history
and second in Yale history to be named first team All-Ivy four
times ... Won second straight Bowditch Award as Yale's most
valuable player ... Finished career second to Tracy Ball '81 on
Yale's career goals list (198) and career points list (246) ... Led
team in goals (41) and points (59) for the fourth straight season.
2007: Tewaaraton Trophy nominee ... ESPN The
Magazine Academic All-District I second team ... IWLCA Academic
Honor Roll ... Named All-American by three different organizations,
including first team IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-American ... IWLCA
All-Northeast Region for the second time ... Ivy League Player of
the Year, Yale's first Ivy Player of the Year in the award's
27-year history... Unanimous First Team All-Ivy ... Lead country in
goals per game (65 in 17 games, 3.82 per game) ... Third Team
Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-American ... Sixth in country and
first in Ivy League in points per game (77 in 16 games, 4.81 per
game) ... Had 24-game point scoring streak and 16-game goal-scoring
streak in progress at end of season ... First Yale player to break
70 points in a season in 27 years ... 61 goals place her third on
Yale's single-season record list, and 77 points place her fifth ...
Four-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week selection ...
womenslacrosse.com National Player of the Week Mar. 26 ... Scored
game-winning goals against both Dartmouth and Princeton, helping
Yale beat those two teams in the same season for the first time in
16 years ... Game-winner against Princeton came with 10.4 seconds
left, giving Yale a 6-5 victory ... Had seven game-winners overall
... 16 assists doubles her previous career high ... Had four ground
balls twice, at Fairfield and vs. BC ... Had three caused turnovers
twice, vs. BC and at Fairfield ... Had five draw controls vs.
Dartmouth ... Had three assists twice, at Fairfield and vs. Cornell
... Had four or more points in a game 11 times, including each of
the first four games of the season ... Improved conditioning
enabled her to move from attack to midfield. 2006:
Second team IWLCA All-Northeast Region ... First team All-Ivy ...
Led the Ivy League in goals with 45 and had a Yale-best 53 points
... Scored five or more goals in a game three times, including an
8-point (7 goals, 1 assist) effort in Yale's 15-8 win over New
Hampshire ... Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week Mar. 13 ...
womenslacrosse.com Honor Roll Mar. 20 ... Third team preseason
All-American. 2005: Third team IWLCA/US Lacrosse
All-American ... First team IWLCA/USLacrosse North All-Region ...
First team All-Ivy ... Led team in points with 53 (47 goals, six
assists) ...... Was named the Ivy League Offensive Player of the
Week on April 4 after she picked up 10 points in two games against
Fairfield and Harvard ... At Brown on April 20 had six tallies and
scooped up four ground balls ... selected for the 2005-06 U.S.
Women's Lacrosse Developmental Team. Academics:
History of science/history of medicine major ... One of seven
students selected to be part of a five-year academic program in
public health, taking graduate-level courses starting her junior
year ... After getting her B.A. in 2008, she will receive a Masters
degree in public health from Yale in 2009 ... Was selected for
Yale's Directed Studies program, a one-year honors program in
history, literature and political science, as a freshman.
Community Involvement: Will work for Boundless
Playgrounds, the first national nonprofit dedicated to helping
communities create barrier-free playgrounds where children with and
without disabilities can play together, in Summer 2008 ... Based in
Bloomfield, Conn., company was founded by former Yale football
captain Fred Leone '82 ... Selected as a freshman counselor for her
residential college, Silliman, in her senior year ... Counselors
are responsible for easing the transition of incoming freshmen to
the academic, social and cultural life of Yale College ... Has also
served as a Yale Female Athlete Mentor and has been a member of the
student focus group for Yale's Women's Intercollegiate Sports
Endowment and Resource (WISER) ... One of 34 students selected for
the Yale Alumni Community Service Fellowship in Summer 2007 ... As
part of that program, spent the summer of 2007 running the Ford
Fellowship Program at the 92nd Street Y (a cultural center) in New
York City ... Ford Fellowship Program was designed with the goal of
enhancing efforts of emerging leaders in communities throughout the
world ... Worked for the Red Cross in New York City in Summer 2005
... Revived the organization's children's programs, which had been
cut because of funding redistribution after Sept. 11 ... Spoke with
more than 1,000 children about health issues and created an
instructional handbook on how to start similar programs.
Before Yale: Enjoyed three dominant years in New
York scholastic athletics ... Earned all-state recognition in field
hockey twice and was a lacrosse All-American in 2004 ... As a
senior, captained her team to a Long Island championship and was
the leading scorer and assister in Long Island ... In 2003, helped
Manhasset to a state championship.
| Year
| GP
| GS
| G
| A
| Pts
| GB
| DC
| T/O
| CT
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| 2005
| 16
| 16
| 47
| 6
| 53
| 17
| 6
| 27
| 6
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| 2006
| 16
| 16
| 45
| 8
| 53
| 21
| 22
| 33
| 12
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| 2007
| 17
| 17
| 65
| 16
| 81
| 29
| 43
| 42
| 23
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| 2008
| 16
| 16
| 41
| 18
| 59
| 23
| 19
| 31
| 19
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| Career
| 65
| 65
| 198
| 48
| 246
| 90
| 90
| 133
| 60
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| Yale with
Taylor
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| 2005
| 10-6 (4-3 Ivy)
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| 2006
| 9-7 (3-4 Ivy)
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| 2007
| 13-4 (6-1 Ivy)
| (0-1 NCAAs)
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| 2008
| 11-5 (4-3 Ivy )
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| 43-22 (17-11 Ivy)
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