High School
Graduate of Valley High School in Turkey, Texas, where he was the 2026 salutatorian, student council member and previously class president, he earned induction into the National Honor Society, received the Physics Scholastic Award and Mathematics Scholastic Award and was a member of the 2024-25 UIL Number Sense Regional Qualifier Region 1-1A team ... a multi-sport athlete, competed in basketball, football, track & field and tennis ... helped his basketball squad to back-to-back District 8-1A titles and a 2025-26 UIL 1A State Championship ... surpassed 2,000 career points and was the All-District 8-1A Defensive MVP in 2025-26, earning Texas Six-Man Coaches Association (TSMCA) All-State 1A and All-Region 1-1A First Team, Texas Association of Basketball Coaches (TABC) All-State 1A, All-Region 1-1A, UIL and GASO All-Tournament Team and was Texas High School Coaches Association (TASCO) Academic All-State First Team ... was named a MaxPreps Small Town All-American First Team honoree for his senior year after averaging 19.5 points, 7.7 rebounds, 3.4 blocks, 1.6 assists, 1.6 steals and shooting .708 from the field and .753 at the line ... as a junior, received District 8-1A Co-MVP, TSMCA All-State Second Team (All-Region First Team), was UIL All-Tournament and Academic All-State honors while averging 15.7 points, 6.9 rebounds, 3.4 blocks, 1.8 assists, while shooting .622 from the floor and .726 at the stripe ... In his first two seasons, he was named District 8-1A Newcomer of the Year and then Offensive MVP with All-Region nods from TSMCA and TABC ... played club basketball with BYC Elite NxtPro 17U as the 2025 Champion of the GASO Summer Championships NBA Division, Urban DFW Elite NxtPro 16U and Hoop 10 Elite 15U.
Personal
Originally from Quitaque, Texas, in the Panhandle Plains ... majoring in Finance ... born Nov. 20 in Odessa, Texas ... the son of M'Lynn and Jeremy Taylor and has two siblings, brother Corbin and sister Violet ... notable family history in Texas collegiate athletics as his grandmother played volleyball at Texas Tech, two great-aunts and two great-uncles played basketball at Angelo State ... was active in Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the First Baptist Church Quitaque Youth Group and volunteered with Tri-County Meals ... lived in China during his early years from 2008-16.