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| wnba_profile = penny_taylor }} Penelope Jane "Penny" Taylor (born 24 May 1981) is an Australian professional basketball player, and current captain of the Australian woman's national team. She plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA and Turkish team Fenerbahçe Istanbul〔(Penny and Tammy )〕〔(Penny Taylor signed for another year )〕 in the EuroLeague Women. In September 2006, she led the Australia women's national basketball team (the Opals) to a gold medal at the World Championships, winning tournament MVP honours ahead of teammate Lauren Jackson. ==Personal== Taylor was born in Melbourne, Victoria to English parents Michael Taylor and Denna Noble. She has a younger brother named Phillip and an older sister named Heather. As both her parents are tall, they thought Penny would inherit their height and put her in the Belgrave South Red Devils basketball club at the age of 4. The camaraderie helped Taylor overcome her shyness, and eventually move to the Nunawading Spectres. Penny attended Upwey High School in Upwey, Victoria, and after graduating earned a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.〔(Penny Taylor in Melbourne )〕〔(Phoenix Mercury's Penny Taylor treasures her career )〕 Taylor posed nude in an Australian magazine, ''Black+White'', that featured Olympic athletes who were set to compete in Athens in the 2004 Summer Olympics. The expensively printed magazine/book has been produced for the last three Olympic Games and, by the 2004 edition, was considered relatively uncontroversial in Australia with its "artistic" approach to nude photography and its equal coverage of male and female athletes. She also holds English passport due to her parents' origin.〔(Penny Taylor set for Fenerbahce )〕 Taylor was married in 2005 to Brazilian volleyball player Rodrigo Rodrigues Gil, but they have since divorced.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Penny Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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