Melissa Straker

Melissa Straker-Taylor (born January 23, 1976) is a retired female track and field sprinter from Barbados, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000. She won a bronze medal in the women's 4x400 metres relay at the 1999 Pan American Games, alongside Joanne Durant, Andrea Blackett, and Tanya Oxley.

Running for the Rice Owls track and field team, Straker won the 1997 4 × 400 meter relay at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.