Nick Taylor (basketball)

Nick Taylor

2012 Australian Paralympic Team portrait of Taylor
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1980-01-18) 18 January 1980 (age 37)
Sport
Country	Australia
Sport	Wheelchair basketball
Event(s)	Men's team
College team	University of Texas
Team	Wollongong Roller Hawks
Turned pro	2005
Medal record Wheelchair basketball Paralympic Games 2012 London Men's wheelchair basketball World Championship 2014 Incheon Team

Nick Taylor (born 18 January 1980) is a wheelchair basketball player. He competed at the 2008 Summer Paralympics playing for the South Africa men's national wheelchair basketball team. He represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in wheelchair basketball, being part of the men's team that won silver.

Taylor was born on 18 January 1980 in South Africa. He became a paraplegic as a result of a car accident in South Africa when he was eighteen years old the day before he was supposed to play in a basketball tournament. He attended university in Cape Town and at the University of Texas. In 2005, he moved to Illawarra, New South Wales, participating in a surfing tryout that year. In 2012, he lived in Towradgi, New South Wales.

Growing up, Taylor played basketball in South Africa, playing for the South Africa junior national basketball team. He also played for the Natal representative side and was scheduled to play in the 1998 U19 South African National Championships but was involved in a serious car accident the day before the competition.

Taylor is a wheelchair basketball player, playing in the shooting guard position. He started playing wheelchair basketball in 2002. He earned the 2010 Frank Ponta Trophy.

Taylor played wheelchair basketball for the University of Texas in 2002 with future Australian national team teammate Brad Ness.

Taylor played for the Wollongong Roller Hawks in 2005. In 2012, he was still with the Roller Hawks, which won the National Wheelchair Basketball League in 2012. In his team's 75-59 semi-final win over the Wentley Wheelcats, he scored fourteen points. In the Grand Final, he scored fourteen points in a game that was played before a crowd of 500.

Taylor played for the South African men's national wheelchair basketball team at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.