Emma is back at Wesleyan as the associate head coach with the women's program for her third season in 2025-26. Taylor came from Colby where she was the women’s assistant for four years and, additionally, the men’s assistant in 2022-23. In two seasons at Wesleyan, Taylor has helped guide the Cardinals to second place and third plac finishes at the NCAA Championships while four Cardinals have earned All-American honors.
In her first year at Wesleyan, the Cardinals earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Championship where the team went on to capture second place at the NCAA Championships, tied for the team's best finish at NCAA's. During the 2023-24 season, Wesleayn also captured the Little Three Championship and Jennifer McLaughlin Cup while finishing third at the New England Championships and National Invitational.
The 2024-25 season saw the Cardinals earn another at-large berth to the NCAA Championship, earning a bid for the 11th time in team history and ninth since 2014. The Cardinals finished in third place at the NCAA Championships, while the team also took second place at the National Invitational Rowing Championship for the first time in team history. Wesleyan also finished as the NESCAC runner-up for the first time. Another landmark achievement saw the Cardinals' 2V8 finish second overall, which marked that boat's best-ever finish at the NCAA Championship. That group tied a team record with five All-NESCAC performers while a pair earned First Team All-America recognition, another first-time achievement for the Cardinals.
During the summer months, Taylor spends time coaching with U23 World Champion athletes at the Green Racing Project - an elite sculling camp run out of the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. In the summer of 2023, Taylor took nine athletes to Canadian Henley where she had boats win the WU23 quad and WU23 double. She began her coaching career with Harvard-Radcliffe 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 and program director in the fall of 2017. 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.
