Nadia Taylor | Assistant Coach

Nadia Taylor joined the Houston Softball coaching staff as an assistant coach in Summer 2023.

Taylor, a four-year letterwinner at Texas, arrives at Houston following a year at Michigan State where she served as the team's hitting coach and recruiting coordinator. In her year with the Spartans, she helped increase their top two returning hitters averages by an average of 46 points.

A native of Humble, Texas, Taylor continues to play professional softball. Currently playing with Athletes Unlimited, she's signed to compete in both the 2023 AUX and Championship Seasons that run over the summer. In the 2022 season, she finished with 1,152 leaderboard points, starting in nine games. Overall, she's tallied 4,258 leaderboard points and has hit five homers, driving home 18 runs.

Prior to joining with Athletes Unlimited, Taylor played with both National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) and with the Minamo Softball League in Japan. A two-time All-NPF selection, she earned the Jennie Finch Award in 2018. In five seasons with the NPF, she played in 194 games, hitting 21 home runs with 81 RBIs. In 2017, she hit .321 with 30 hits in 50 games for the Texas Charge.

Taylor was a four-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) All-Region selection with the Longhorns from 2009-12, also earning All-Big 12 Conference recognitions in all four years, including a pair of First-Team accolades.

She currently ranks fourth in Texas history with 234 games played and boasted a .337 career average with 219 hits, 131 RBIs, 120 runs scored, 40 doubles and 32 home runs. Not only did she play four years of softball, she also played a season of basketball for Texas following her collegiate softball career.

Taylor graduated from Texas with a degree in kinesiology. Prior to joining Michigan State, she owned and operated NT88 Sports Performance, serving as an instructor and consultant for MiLB and MLB teams as well as 80-plus collegiate athletes.