Taylor Woods is a former elite women’s hockey player and high-performance skills coach with experience spanning collegiate, international, and professional hockey. She competed at the NCAA Division I level with Cornell Big Red, represented Team Canada internationally through the IIHF, and played professionally in the Canadian Women's Hockey League, Professional Women's Hockey Players Association, and the Premier Hockey Federation.

Over her career, Taylor earned a U18 IIHF World Championship gold medal, a Clarkson Cup championship with the Markham Thunder in 2018, and an Isobel Cup championship with the Toronto Six in 2023. She also served as an Assistant Captain during her NCAA tenure at Cornell University, reflecting both leadership and competitive excellence.

As a player, Taylor competed at the highest levels as a right-handed shot, while intentionally developing left-handed shooting ability as a skill acquisition and coaching tool. This deliberate ambidextrous training allowed her to study shooting mechanics, perception, and motor learning from both sides — deepening her understanding of how skills are built, transferred, and adapted under game constraints. She played both forward and defense, gaining a comprehensive view of offensive and defensive decision-making.

Taylor brings a critical-thinking, systems-based approach to shooting and skill development. Her sessions bridge mechanics to application, progressing athletes from foundational movement patterns to game-speed execution. Training focuses include shooting mechanics, footwork for power and accuracy, hand skills and release efficiency, offensive creativity, deception, and manipulating time and space within realistic game situations. Athletes are coached to understand not just how to perform a skill, but why it works.

She currently works behind the bench as a coach with the Burlington Barracudas and continues to coach athletes across all ages and skill levels, from foundational development to elite performance pathways.