Colby College

Emma Taylor is in her fourth year as Assistant Coach of Colby Women's Crew and first as Assistant Coach of Colby Men's Crew during the 2022-23 academic year.

In Taylor's coaching career at Colby, she has helped Women's Crew place 4th and 7th in the NESCAC, produce two All-Americans in 2021, and helped Colby get ranked 11th in all of DIII in 2022 (there were no national rankings in 2021). During the summers, she spends her time coaching with U23 World Champion athletes at the Green Racing Project - an elite sculling camp run out of the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. Last summer, Taylor took nine athletes to Canadian Henley where she had boats win the WU23 quad and WU23 double. She began her coaching career with the Radcliffe Heavyweights novices in the fall of 2016. From there, Taylor moved to Thayer Academy, where she became the Women’s Assistant Coach. Taylor then moved to Head Women's Varsity Coach in the fall of 2017 as well as Program Director. In the spring of 2018, she became both the Head Varsity Men's and Women's Coach where she stayed for two years. Taylor spent the 2019 summer coaching camps with the US Rowing Women's U19 Mid-Atlantic Olympic Development Program in Philadelphia, Pa.

As an athlete, Taylor rowed four years at Bates College, where she was part of the New England Champion V8 in 2014, 2015 and 2016 as well as the Eastern Conference Athletic Championship V8 in 2014 and 2015. She went to the NCAA Championship all four years, earning the overall team 2nd place in 2013, 3rd place in 2014, 1st place in 2015 and 2nd place in 2016.  She captained the team her senior year and was named to the 2016 All-NESCAC First Varsity Boat and 2016 NESCAC All-Academic team.