Sports
Elana Taylor & Dakarai Kongela
- Item Number
- 503
- Opening Bid
- 75 USD
Item Description
Elana Meyers Taylor was born in Oceanside, Calif. on Wednesday, October 10, 1984. She began the sport of bobsled in 2007, making the national team her rookie season. In 2008 she won her first World Cup medal, a bronze with driver Shauna Rohbock. She followed the performance with a gold medal at the inaugural World Cup in Whistler, Canada. At the 2009 World Championships, Meyers Taylor pushed with driver Shauna Rohbock to win silver, and won the 2010 Olympic bronze medal with pilot Erin Pac in Whistler. Since the Games, Meyers Taylor moved into the driver's seat, and was selected by the coaching staff as an emerging elite pilot. Just four years after jumping into the driver's seat, she claimed the 2014 Olympic silver medal to continue the U.S. women's program's medal winning legacy. Meyers Taylor currently is serving as an Athlete Director on the USBSF Board of Directors.
Meyers Taylor graduated from George Washington University in Washington D.C. in 2011, with a master's degree in sports management after finishing her B.S. in exercise science at George Washington in 2007. While at George Washington, she played shortstop and pitcher for the softball team. Meyers Taylor was named to the ECAC Division I All-Star team in July 2007 for leading the Colonials to their first-ever Atlantic 10 Tournament appearance, with a game-winning grand slam in her final home game. In addition to bobsled, Meyers Taylor also played for the Mid-Michigan Ice, a professional softball team based in Midland, Michigan and she has two caps with the Team USA Rugby 7s team.
Meyers Taylor also holds a MBA in finance from the Keller Graduate School of DeVry. This past summer, she interned in the finance department for the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland.
About the Mask Artist: The native of Suquamish, Wash. was born on March 26, 1988. Dakarai Kongela has played soccer, football and ran track. He turned to bobsled in 2011 after a disappointing track season at George Fox University. Kongela's hobbies include sleeping and trying to make people laugh and his favorite foods are burritos, donuts and spinach.
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