Renee Taylor (born 28 September 1996) is an Australian

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ci ...

player. Taylor was born in

Everton Park, Queensland Everton Park is a suburb of the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. In the , Everton Park had a population of 8,862 people. Geography Everton Park is about eight kilometres north of the Brisbane CBD. It is predominantly residential, wi ...

and made her senior international debut in a test series against China in April 2015. Taylor was part of the Australian women's junior national team, 'The Jillaroos', that won bronze at the 2016 Hockey Junior World Cup in Chile. Taylor qualified for the

Tokyo 2020 Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...

. She was part of the

Hockeyroos The Australia women's national field hockey team (nicknamed the Hockeyroos) are, as of January 2019, ranked third in the world. Having played their first game in 1914, and their first Olympic game in 1984, they are one of Australia's most succes ...

Olympics squad. The Hockeyroos lost 1-0 to India in the quarterfinals and therefore were not in medal contention.

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* * * 1996 births Living people Australian female field hockey players Commonwealth Games medallists in field hockey Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Female field hockey defenders Field hockey players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Australia 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women Sportspeople from Brisbane Sportswomen from Queensland Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-fieldhockey-bio-stub