Megan Taylor grew impatient watching the WNBA’s draft.

“Well, it got to be the third round and I’m like `I have been waiting for two hours. I need to do something,'” Taylor, the former Cyclone guard said.

So when she was selected as the seventh pick in the fourth round on Friday to the Minnesota Lynx, Taylor was out running the streets of Ames.

When she returned, Connie Middleton, women’s basketball secretary, told Taylor the news.

“She was like, `Oh. Oh really,'” Middleton said. “Typical Megan response.”

“I was getting antsy,” Taylor said. “I figured it would probably be better if they just came back and told me anyway. I wouldn’t have to wait around.”

Perhaps it wasn’t nerves that made Taylor run. Perhaps it was clairvoyance.

When she spoke with Minnesota later that afternoon, “[The Lynx] told me I’d better put my competitive shoes on,” Taylor said.

Four other players were drafted by the Lynx.

Eighteen players are currently on Minnesota’s depth chart. At the season’s start, 11 will be.

And Taylor will have to compete against all 18.

In the WNBA, no one is guaranteed a spot on a team.

“It’s tough to make it, but I think she’ll do a great job,” ISU head coach Bill Fennelly said. “They’re going to have a hard time cutting here.”

“It’s going to be hard, but I’m going in there with high hopes,” Taylor said. “I’m not going to try to do things I can’t do.”

The Lynx were unavailable for comment.

Taylor leaves for Minnesota, her home state, on May 2.

“Megan’s going to work as hard as any athlete you’re going to see,” Laura Strand, Taylor’s high school basketball coach in Roseau, Minn. said.

Strand remembers returning from road games at 11 p.m. and Taylor heading for the gym to shoot some more.

During practice, “she never sat down,” Stand said. Taylor dribbled a ball or shot instead.

“She was relentless,” Strand added.

Maybe that’s why Taylor celebrated after her run by lifting weights at the Rec with some of her former teammates.

“I can celebrate tonight,” Taylor said Friday.

Whenever she did, perhaps a toast was raised to her possible summer salary.

“I know that $28,000 is the least they can pay you in the fourth round,” Taylor said.

“I’m not complaining,” she added.

Stacy Frese isn’t either.

The former Cyclone now with the Utah Starzz spoke with Taylor recently about the WNBA experience.

“[Frese] said `it’s definitely worth it,'” Taylor said. “She said she had a lot of fun.”

The Lynx’s preseason starts May 12 at Charlotte. The last regular season game is scheduled Aug. 13 at Houston.

Taylor is looking forward to possibly traveling with the team this summer.

But more so, Taylor is excited about being in the Twin Cities where many of her family members live.

“I wanted to go to Minnesota,” Taylor said. “I’m going to have a lot of fan support and family support there. If it gets hard for me, I can always go and talk to them.”