Taylor Spivey

Personal

• From Redondo Beach, California
• First competitive open water swim experiences were as an ocean lifeguard.
• She was the overall national champion at the 2011 and 2012 Ocean Lifeguard Nationals, as well as a member of the USA Lifesaving International team from 2009-2014.
• Spivey went on to become a swimmer for California Polytechnic State University.
• She specialized in long distance freestyle while earning a degree in architecture.
• Spivey decided to try her first triathlon after joining the club Triathlon team at Cal Poly at the conclusion of her collegiate swimming career.
• At the 2014 USA Triathlon Collegiate National Championships, she earned the women’s overall draft-legal national title while representing Cal Poly.
• She was recruited to try the sport at the elite level through the USA Triathlon Collegiate Recruitment Program, earning her first elite international podium in 2015.
• Spivey enjoys the team aspect of triathlon — once as a member of the collegiate club team at Cal Poly, and now as a member of the U.S. National Team and frequent U.S. Mixed Relay Team competitor.
• Her biggest mentors are her parents, who both competed in triathlons.
• Her mother is a former professional triathlete and current Masters swimming national champion, and her dad is a successful age-group athlete.
• Spivey says the proudest moment of her career is earning her first spot on an ITU World Triathlon Series podium in 2017 in Leeds, England.
• In 2022 she was the runner up in the Super League Championship Series and fourth overall in the World Triathlon Championship Series.

Career Highlights

• 2022 World Triathlon Championship Series overall rankings, 4th

• 2022 Super League Championship Series Runner-Up

• 2019 ITU World Triathlon Series overall rankings, 4th

• 2018 ITU World Triathlon Series overall rankings, 8th

• 4-time ITU World Triathlon Series medalist (2 silvers, 2 bronze)

• 4-time ITU Triathlon World Cup medalist (1 gold, 3 silvers)

• 4-time CAMTRI American Cup medalist (1 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronzes)

• 3-time World Triathlon Mixed Relay Series (2 silver, 1 bronze)

• 2018 USA Triathlon Elite National Championships bronze medalist

• 2017 USA Triathlon Elite National Championships silver medalist

• 2014 USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Champion (draft-legal) 

World Championships Experience

• Most recent: 2024 – 15th (Individual Ranking - Women)
• Years of participation: Individual Ranking - Women 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024; Olympic Distance - Women 2021, 2022, 2023; Super Sprint Distance - Women 2022, 2023; Team Relay - Mixed 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023
• Medals: 3 (1 silver, 2 bronze)
• Silver – 2020 (Team Relay - Mixed)
• Bronze – 2022 (Team Relay - Mixed); 2021 (Individual Ranking - Women)

Olympic Experience

• 1-time Olympian; 1-time Olympic medalist (1 silver)
• Olympic Games Paris 2024, silver (Team Relay - Mixed), 10th (Olympic Distance - Women)