page_title: Lindsay Taylor
section_title: Second season (2006)
hierarchical_section_title: Lindsay Taylor / WNBA career / Second season (2006)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Anne Donovan taken at the 2011 Women's basketball Coaches Association Convention in Indianapolis Indiana.
context_page_description: Lindsay Corine Taylor is an American former professional basketball player. She has played in the WNBA, TKBL, LFB, WKBL, Polish Women's League, WCBA, and Angola Women's Basketball League. A very experienced player, she has played professionally overseas in 13 basketball seasons. Standing 6 ft 8 in tall she usually plays the center position
  Taylor attended Chandler High School and was a Chandler HS state champion in 1999. She attended University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999 and was the 2001 Big West Freshman and Player of the Year. Taylor is Santa Barbara's all-time leading point scorer, blocker and most accurate shooter.
  Taylor was awarded the Silver Medal as a member of the United States 2003 Pan American Games basketball team and was considered the best player in the team. She was instrumental in securing the Gauchos four straight Big West Conference women's Championships victories between 2001–2004, and almost single-handedly took the team to the 2004 Sweet Sixteen – the furthest the team had ever advanced in the NCAA tournament. In April 2014, she was elected to UC Santa Barbara Hall of Fame.
context_section_description: On April 13, 2006, the Seattle Storm signed Taylor to a training camp contract. Upon joining her new team she immediately became the team's tallest player, adding an extra three inches over then tallest teammate Lauren Jackson. Taylor also holds the distinction of being the only player on the Storm team as tall as then head coach during Anne Donovan, who 6 feet 8 inches, a fact acknowledged by Donovan when the two allegedly stood eye-to-eye and she remarked about Lindsay "She is legit".
  Donovan praised Taylor's skills and favorably compared her to fellow WNBA player Kara Wolters, whom Donovan had personally tutored.  Taylor spoke enthusiastically about joining her new team and what it could mean for her and improving her abilities. She expressed admiration for Lauren Jackson and said she could learn from her. Lindsay also looked forward to the training she could expect to receive from Donovan.
  Despite Donovan's praise however on May 17 Taylor was released by the Storm, just a little over a month after she signing. She was the team's last cut before rosters were finalized. An Achilles tendinitis in her right ankle had prevented Taylor from taking full advantage of her invitation to training camp. In all, she only played in only two preseason games, one on May 7 and the other May 12, five days before her release, averaging 7.0 points and 3.5 rebounds on a 3-point basket late in the game. She missed an exhibition finale against the Minnesota Lynx and spent several other games on the injured list because her tendinitis in her foot.
caption: Anne Donovan was Seattle Storm coach during Taylor's stint. Donovan spoke highly of Taylor and said of her: "What I saw there was some potential".[2]
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