Taylor was appointed to the position in 1988 after serving as the interim director in 1987-88.  She is responsible for coordinating and directing LHU’s 18 intercollegiate sports. 

The former head women’s field hockey coach at LHU, Taylor earned an impressive 333-96-27 record at the helm of the Lady Eagles from 1973-95, making her the winningest coach in Lock Haven University history. Taylor guided the Haven to six national championships (one AIAW and five NCAA), seven PSAC titles and seven additional national championship or semi-final appearances.  In 1995, in her final season as head coach, Taylor led the Lady Eagles to a perfect 21-0 record and her final PSAC and NCAA Division II crowns.  In addition, her 1979 lacrosse team won the first Division II national championship sponsored by the United States Women’s Lacrosse Association.

Organizationally, Taylor served as President of the United States Field Hockey Association from 2001-2007. She is the former president of the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators, has served in the past as president of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the Eastern Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, and as vice president for Division III of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women.  She served on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Olympic Committee for 15 years. 

Among Taylor’s many contributions to the field of athletics, she is responsible for having conceived and initiated the idea for a collegiate championship in field hockey.  Working first within the USFHA and later in conjunction with the AIAW, she guided the origination and development of the championship, which was the forerunner of today’s NCAA Championship.  She was inducted into the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) Hall of Fame in January of 2004.

Taylor is a graduate of Lock Haven State College and earned her master’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  She is an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Services and has served as an associate athletic director at LHU.

Taylor has been honored as the National Administrator of the Year by the NACWAA (1988), with Josten’s Female Administrator of the Year Award by the ECAC (1997), the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport Pathfinder Award (1996) and the HERitatge Award of the Pennsylvania State Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (1995).  She was named field hockey “coach of the year” in Division II of the NCAA in 1993, 1994 and 1995, and by the PSAC in 1989, 1992, 1994 and 1995.  In 1991, Taylor was inducted into the Clinton County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame, In 1988, she received the prestigious Katherine Ley Award, presented by the ECAC, for outstanding contributions to women’s athletics