WIS- Joni Taylor | NCAA Coach
Celebrating the AA Women’s Basketball 🏀 Coaches 👏🏽Texas A&M named the 2021 SEC Coach of the Year Joni Taylor as the eighth women's basketball head coach in program history on March 23, 2022.
Over the past 19 seasons, the program won five conference titles and reached the NCAA Tournament 16 times.
The Meridian, Mississippi, native spent the first seven years of her head coaching career leading the Georgia women's basketball program. She amassed 140 victories with a .651 winning percentage and 64 wins in SEC play. Taylor took the Lady Bulldogs to four NCAA Tournaments, including top-four seeds in 2018 and 2021.
On the international level, Taylor has served USA Basketball on a variety of occasions. She started off as a court coach at the 2018 USA U18 National Team Trials and then won gold as an assistant with the 2021 U19 World Cup Team. Most recently, Taylor won gold as an assistant coach for the USA Women's National Team at the 2022 FIBA World Cup and when she head coached the 2022 USA Basketball Women's U18 National Team to a 6-0 mark in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A four-year letterwinner at Alabama (1998-01), Taylor earned her bachelor's degree in education in 2002. She helped lead the Crimson Tide to four postseason runs and recorded 716 points, 555 rebounds and 103 blocked shots, which ranks fourth in the Crimson Tide's record book.
While at Alabama, she was recognized as one of the most influential African Americans on campus in 2001, earned three SEC Community Service honors (1999, 2000, 2001) and was awarded a post-graduate scholarship from the SEC.
The Meridian High School product was the 1997 Mississippi Gatorade Player of the Year. She also won three state titles in track & field and was selected as the school's Homecoming Queen.
Taylor and her husband Darius have two daughters, Jacie and Drew.
Read more: https://12thman.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/coaches/joni-taylor/1480
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