Abby Taylor
Setter 6
Ht
5'
9"
Class
Senior
Hometown
Las Vegas, 
Nevada
Last School
Wyoming
Roster Years
2022


Personal

  • Parents are Gigi and Phil Olsen
  • Mom played volleyball at Cyprus College, dad played basketball at the College of Southern Idaho and College of Idaho
  • Sister, Anya, played volleyball at Tyler Junior College with her for a year before playing beach and indoor volleyball at St. Katherine's Unviersity
  • Brother, Aric is a freshman on the McKendree men's volleyball team
  • Married to Teon Taylor, a middle blocker on the BYU men's volleyball team
  • Majoring in Biology

Before BYU

  • Transferred to BYU in 2022 after spending two seasons at Wyoming
  • Led the Cowgirls with 523 total assists, while her 5.75 assists per set were second-best on the team in 2021
  • Started 16 matches in 2021, recording seven matches with 30-plus assists, with a career-high 51 assists in a match at San José State on October 7, 2021
  • Played in all 14 matches and tied for a team-high nine starts in the spring 2020-21 season
  • Led Wyoming with 363 assists for an average of 7.12 per set
  • Played in 65 matches over two years at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas, notching 1,115 assists, 455 digs and 72 kills
  • Prepped at Green Valley High School
BYU Hall of Fame

Freshman Year

Sophmore Year

Junior Year

Senior Year 2022

  • Recorded 242 assists, 15 kills on a .438 clip, 10 service aces, 66 digs and 12 block assists for the year
  • Tallied seven service aces against Portland (10/29/22), the second-most aces in a single match in the rally scoring era at BYU
  • Played in 12 matches during the 2022 season, starting seven of them during the absence of starting setter Whitney Bower
Graduate Year

Redshirt Year

Medical Redshirt Year



  • White team celebrating scoring a point

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  • Abby Taylor and No. 17 BYU women's volleyball huddle during Portland game on October 29, 2022

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  • Cougars celebrate a point against Saint Mary's

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