Born in Smithtown, New York, and living in Stowe, Vermont, United States, she competed for United States at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Later that year, Walker also won the first-ever World Cup for Women's Big Air snowboarding, an event that made its debut in the 2018 Winter Olympics.
Taylor still holds the record as being the youngest Red Bull sponsored athlete in history.
Walker entered Brown University in the fall of 2015 and graduated as a member of the class of 2020.
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