TGTAYA GOULEY
A LIVING MUSEUM • BUILT WITH LOVE • NEVER FINISHED

Taya,
look at
how far.

This is not a résumé. It is not a portfolio. It is not here to ask anything from anyone. It is a place that sets out the work, the games, the family, the culture, the classrooms, the people helped, the pressure survived, the joy, the ordinary days that mattered — and the person still becoming.

01 A career is more than trophies. This record covers the whole person.
Taya Gouley in Shelton basketball uniform holding a basketball
ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH
NDNSPORTS • Photo credit: Alex Gouley • 2020
SCROLL THROUGH THE YEARS ↓
THE REASON THIS EXISTS

A record of a life still unfolding.

Some lives deserve more than a bio. They deserve a place where the little things and the impossible-to-forget things can live together.

ROOTSATHLETESTUDENTLEADERCARESTILL BECOMING
500+HIGH-SCHOOL CAREER BASKETBALL POINTS REPORTED BY NDNSPORTS
7THREES IN A GAME • REPORTED SCHOOL RECORD
27HIGH-SCORING SENIOR GAME DOCUMENTED
4VARSITY SOFTBALL SEASONS
3.6SENIOR-YEAR GPA REPORTED IN 2020 PROFILE
0DOCUMENTED TIMELINE MOMENTS + THE NEXT ONE
IN HER OWN WORDS

Two lines that explain almost everything.

“Family is the most important thing in my life.”

TAYA • PUBLIC NDNSPORTS PROFILE • 2020

“I have always had a calm and collected spirit to me.”

TAYA • PUBLIC NDNSPORTS PROFILE • 2020
THE MASTER TIMELINE

Everything we could verify. One continuous line.

The timeline is data-driven, so it keeps growing as she does. Every entry is tied to a public source. Filter by chapter, or leave it on All to walk the story as one life.

REAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Not illustrations. Her actual life.

The record uses every Taya-specific public photograph I could reliably retrieve into the record without pretending an unrelated search result was her. Other verified public photo/video sources are preserved immediately below as source doors.

Taya Gouley in Shelton basketball uniform
SHELTON #5 • NDNSPORTS profile portrait • Photo credit: Alex Gouley • 2020
Lower Columbia College women's basketball team portrait
LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE • 2020–21 team portrait. Taya was rostered as #10 guard, Nursing major. Team photograph carries C's Photography watermark.
Lower Columbia College roster portrait of Taya Gouley
COLLEGE ROSTER PORTRAIT • Lower Columbia College Athletics • 2020–21

The photographs aren't decoration. They are evidence that these years were real.

Every additional verified public photograph can be added to this wall as the record grows.

PHOTO RECORD • STILL GROWING
PHOTO SOURCE • HCC

Going to the hoop

HCC identifies a game photograph of Taya #5 driving against Mercer Island and links to Shawna Whelan's sports-photo gallery.

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NEWSPAPER PHOTO • 2020

Driving around North Thurston

The Shelton Mason County Journal archive caption identifies Taya in an action photograph.

OPEN ARCHIVE ↗
INSTAGRAM • INTER-TRIBAL ATHLETICS

Throwback: Shelton sharpshooter

The indexed public Instagram archive identifies Taya as a former Shelton standout who played at Lower Columbia.

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FACEBOOK VIDEO • KMAS

3-for-4 in the home opener

Public KMAS video post preserving a standout softball performance.

OPEN VIDEO ↗
FACEBOOK REEL • ARCHIVE

Basketball / fastpitch

A public Taya Gouley basketball/fastpitch reel surfaced in indexed search.

OPEN REEL ↗
HUDL • VIDEO

Seven threes

The shooting clip NDNSPORTS linked when documenting her senior-season record.

WATCH ↗
HUDL • OLYMPIC COLLEGE

The softball chapter continues

Public Olympic College softball profile, joined November 2021.

OPEN PROFILE ↗
MAXPREPS • ARCHIVE

High-school career timeline

Game logs, stats, roster history and photo-gallery access from the Shelton years.

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LCC STUDENT ACTIVITIES • VIDEO INDEX

Mini Workout — Taya Gouley

A tiny 21-second artifact from the college year preserved in Facebook's indexed video carousel.

OPEN SOURCE ↗
165VERIFIED MUSEUM PLAQUES
THE ROOM THAT DID NOT EXIST BEFORE

One hundred sixty five things on the record.

The first version of this record told the broad story. This room goes smaller. It lists the numbers, habits, positions, games, coaches, school work, summer jobs, family motivations, cultural milestones, college details, favorite foods, travel wishes, and the little surviving traces that make a life feel lived instead of summarized.

Every plaque has a public source. Nothing needs to be exaggerated when the real record is already this rich.

OPEN THE 165 ENTRIES →
THE COACHES’ ROOM

What people who watched the work noticed.

TIFFANY TWIDDY • BASKETBALL COACH

Quiet leadership.

Her coach remembered a player who handled the intangibles, stayed focused in practice, earned positive feedback from teachers, and became a role model for younger Native athletes.

AURORA GOULEY • SOFTBALL COACH / COUSIN

Talent plus extra work.

Aurora’s public reflection emphasizes both raw ability and the willingness to add extra work until that ability turned into leadership, all-conference recognition and pride for the people around her.

TAYA • HER OWN ACCOUNT

Never pretending the work was finished.

Taya’s own public story is unusually candid about areas she wanted to improve: decisiveness, mental toughness, getting bigger and faster, and learning when to take the shot instead of always making the pass.

THE LITTLE THINGS CABINET

A person is more than the big moments.

FAVORITE SHOW

The Vampire Diaries

Preserved in her Lower Columbia College player profile.

FAVORITE FOOD

Sushi & seafood

A tiny detail that makes the college roster feel like a person, not a stat line.

ATHLETES SHE NAMED

Sue Bird + John Stockton

Two guards, two examples of floor vision and control, listed in her LCC profile.

HOBBIES

Kayaking, swimming, hiking, friends

The quieter life around competition, as preserved by LCC Athletics.

SOMEDAY

Hawaii

She told LCC she wanted to visit because she had never been and thought it looked beautiful.

ANOTHER SOMEDAY

Christmas in New York City

Another small travel wish preserved in the college profile.

FAVORITE QUOTE

“Don’t worry, be happy.”

The Bobby McFerrin line she chose for her LCC player page.

THE THREAD

Family, always

Even the athletic profile repeatedly circles back to family, community and who the work was for.

165VERIFIED MUSEUM PLAQUES
THE ROOM THAT DID NOT EXIST BEFORE

One hundred sixty five things on the record.

The first version of this record told the broad story. This room goes smaller. It lists the numbers, habits, positions, games, coaches, school work, summer jobs, family motivations, cultural milestones, college details, favorite foods, travel wishes, and the little surviving traces that make a life feel lived instead of summarized.

Every plaque has a public source. Nothing needs to be exaggerated when the real record is already this rich.

OPEN THE 165 ENTRIES →
THE COACHES’ ROOM

What people who watched the work noticed.

TIFFANY TWIDDY • BASKETBALL COACH

Quiet leadership.

Her coach remembered a player who handled the intangibles, stayed focused in practice, earned positive feedback from teachers, and became a role model for younger Native athletes.

AURORA GOULEY • SOFTBALL COACH / COUSIN

Talent plus extra work.

Aurora’s public reflection emphasizes both raw ability and the willingness to add extra work until that ability turned into leadership, all-conference recognition and pride for the people around her.

TAYA • HER OWN ACCOUNT

Never pretending the work was finished.

Taya’s own public story is unusually candid about areas she wanted to improve: decisiveness, mental toughness, getting bigger and faster, and learning when to take the shot instead of always making the pass.

THE LITTLE THINGS CABINET

A person is more than the big moments.

FAVORITE SHOW

The Vampire Diaries

Preserved in her Lower Columbia College player profile.

FAVORITE FOOD

Sushi & seafood

A tiny detail that makes the college roster feel like a person, not a stat line.

ATHLETES SHE NAMED

Sue Bird + John Stockton

Two guards, two examples of floor vision and control, listed in her LCC profile.

HOBBIES

Kayaking, swimming, hiking, friends

The quieter life around competition, as preserved by LCC Athletics.

SOMEDAY

Hawaii

She told LCC she wanted to visit because she had never been and thought it looked beautiful.

ANOTHER SOMEDAY

Christmas in New York City

Another small travel wish preserved in the college profile.

FAVORITE QUOTE

“Don’t worry, be happy.”

The Bobby McFerrin line she chose for her LCC player page.

THE THREAD

Family, always

Even the athletic profile repeatedly circles back to family, community and who the work was for.

ROOTED
IN
FAMILY
+
HERITAGE
ROOTS • STRENGTH • CONTINUITY

The part that came before every scoreboard.

In her public 2020 story, Taya described her Skokomish and Navajo heritage not as a footnote but as part of the explanation for who she became. Family, community, ceremony, summers in Arizona, tribal work and the Canoe Journey all sit beside basketball and softball in this record because she placed them there herself.

The 2018 Canoe Journey is one of the clearest stories of endurance in the record: days on the water, roughly nine hours of pulling each day for a week, fatigue setting in early, and a choice to keep going.

This record does not turn ceremony into spectacle. It keeps the public record close to Taya's own telling and treats cultural details as lived history, not aesthetic decoration.
THE THREAD THROUGH THE YEARS

Different rooms. Same person.

ATHLETE

Quiet leadership

Her coaches' public descriptions repeatedly point to the same pattern: extra work, discipline, accountability, consistency, leadership without performance. One coach remembered younger Native kids looking up to her. Another emphasized how reliably she handled class, practice and competition.

STUDENT

3.6 + NHS + CNA

The senior-year record held more than box scores: a 3.6 GPA, National Honor Society, and a Running Start CNA pathway with college credit. The academic chapter was already moving while the athletic one was still loud.

COMMUNITY

Four summers of showing up

Before college, Taya described four summers of tribal internships spanning Natural Resources and Youth Summer Recreation, plus helping with community events and the annual elders picnic.

CARE

The arena changes

The current Skokomish Early Childhood Education staff page lists Taya as a Child Care Lead Teacher. Leadership did not vanish after sports; it moved into work centered on children, steadiness, development and care.

THE COLLEGE YEARS + AFTER

She kept moving.

2020–21 • LOWER COLUMBIA

#10 • Guard • Nursing

LCC's official roster carries Taya into college basketball. The public profile also preserved charming ordinary details — sushi and seafood, The Vampire Diaries, and “Don't worry, be happy” as a favorite quote.

These details are here because a person is more than a list of awards.
2021–22 → 2025

Softball keeps finding her.

NWAC records a 2021–22 Olympic College softball chapter. USSSA's current player history later carries her into 2025 Indigenous slowpitch, including Rezzy & Deadly. The sport that started in youth remained part of the story years later.

The timeline is designed to continue. New chapters are added; they never replace the old ones.
THE SOURCE WALL

Nothing amazing needed to be invented.

Every major biographical claim in the record is tied to a public source. Social platforms sometimes throttle direct access, so the record preserves every verified indexed source we found and only displays photographs we could reliably retrieve as Taya-specific media.

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THE LAST PANEL IS DELIBERATELY NOT THE END

Still in progress.

A working record of a living person is never finished. This site is built so the master timeline, source wall and photo record can keep expanding for years — milestone after milestone, ordinary memory after ordinary memory.

LIVING ARCHIVE • RESEARCH PASS AUGUST 13, 2026 • VERSION 2.0
version: september30th2026