Taylor Smith (Australian footballer)


Taylor Smith is an Australian rules footballer playing for Gold Coast in the AFL Women's competition.

Early life

Smith grew up on the Gold Coast and attended Coomera Anglican College throughout her upbringing. Her first sporting interest came at the age of 10 in the form of athletics where she predominately focused on high jump and hurdles. She transitioned to heptathlon at the age of 16 and began competing at the national level in just her fourth ever event in the sport. Towards the end of Year 12, she played Australian rules football for the first time in the local APS inter-school competition and was spotted by an AFL Queensland scout who organised a trial with the Gold Coast Suns academy. She began playing club football for the first time in 2018 for Bond University in the QAFLW.
Less than two years after playing football for the first time, Smith was announced as a priority signing for the Gold Coast Suns' inaugural AFLW list.

AFLW career

Smith made her AFLW debut for the Gold Coast Suns in round 6 of the 2020 AFL Women's season.