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Danielle Taylor

 
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Danielle (Seling) Taylor heads into her seventh season as the head coach at Elizabethtown in 2020.

2018 didn't end in the same way as 2017, with a postseason berth, but Taylor watched her senior midfielder, Katie Thompson, turn in one of the best seasons in program history. Thompson tied the program's assists mark (63), and had the most groundballs, draw controls, and caused turnovers by any Blue Jay player all-time in one season. Thompson finished out her career as the program's all-time leader in assists (136), groundballs (205, and draw controls (201). She was an easy choice for First Team All-Landmark in the midfield and earned the Player of the Year honors, the first special award for a Taylor-coached player. Carly Thompson (attack), Madelyn Baker (attack), and Kate Ziegler (midfield) were also all-conference selections as each made the Second Team.

2017 marked the fourth straight season Elizabethtown upped the win total, this time to 11 and qualified for the postseason for the first time under Taylor. E-town finished third in the Landmark with a 4-2 league record, 11-5 overall, led by her four all-conference players. Katie Thompson was placed on the First Team, while Addie Stang, Becky Graessle, and Olivia Beachley were all Second Team selections.

Taylor's 2015 team won five games and proved competitive in a number of contests. E-town opened the season with back-to-back wins over Hood and Rutgers-Camden and could have been right around .500 with a few breaks late in close games. The Jays improved to 7-9 as the upward trajectory under Taylor continued.

Stang flourished under Taylor, scoring a career-high 51 goals, 10th most in a season in Blue Jay history. Stang became Taylor's first All-Landmark Conference First Team selection. Overall, Taylor has coached three all-conference players in as many seasons.

On the surface, E-town's 5-9 record doesn't tell the whole story of the giant steps the program took in 2015. Taylor spent the 2009 and 2010 seasons on former coach Mike Faith's staff as an assistant coach when the Blue Jays were regularly one of the top 20 programs in NCAA Division III. Elizabethtown advanced to the Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) championship game in 2009 and won its first conference title in 2010.

The situation was far different in 2014 when Taylor returned to serve as interim head coach. She was tasked with rebuilding the roster and transitioning Elizabethtown into the Landmark Conference.