Tyan Taylor
2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Taylor
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| Nickname(s) | Little girl |
| Nationality | Australia |
| Born | 23 March 1990 |
| Height | 156 cm (61 in) (2012) |
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| Country | Australia |
| Sport | Goalball |
Tyan "Little Girl" Taylor (born 23 March 1990) is an Australian goalball winger and is classified as a B3 competitor. 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 Goalball World Cup and 2011 IBSA Africa Oceania Goalball Regional Champions. She has been selected to represent Australia at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in goalball.
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. 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.
When Taylor was ten years old, several years before started the sport, her grandmother made a comment to her after having seen the game that Taylor could play and one day make the Paralympics. 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 MVP. At the 2012 Australian National Championships, her New South Wales team finished second, and she was awarded the Ladies' MVP and the Kenaghan Medal, which was awarded at the end of the tournament.
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