Taylor Ritzel (born September 4, 1988)[1] is an American rower who was part of the United States women's eight team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

[2] She has also been part of the women's eight world championship winning team twice, in 2010 and 2011.

[3][4] Ritzel started rowing at Yale University,[5] from which she graduated in 2010.

[6] While at Yale, she won the I Eight event three times at the NCAA Championships (2007, 2008, 2010).

Taylor is currently working in Beverly Hills in nonfiction series content acquisition at Netflix.