Rebecca (“Becca”) Taylor returns for her second year with the Lady Raptors’ indoor track team after completing her second season of cross country in the fall. During the cross country season, Taylor ran in all six invitationals for the Lady Raptors, posting her top 6K time of 37:55.8 in the final meet of the season, the NCAA Atlantic Regionals Nov. 10. She also had a 5K time of 31:51.19 at the Cabrini Invitational Oct. 13.
During the fall of 2006, Taylor ran cross country for the first time, competing in six invitationals and posting her best 5K time of 33:38.34 at the Goldey Beacom College Cross Country Fall Classic (Oct. 7). She ran her top 6K time of 38:35 at the ECAC Championships (Nov. 4).
Taylor has earned two outdoor track letters and one indoor letter for the Scarlet Raptors. During the 2007 spring season she competed in the shot put, discus and javelin for the women’s track team, turning in an outstanding performance at the New Jersey Athletic Conference meet (May 5) in which she finished fifth in the discus (96-5.50), 10th in the shot put (29-9.75) and 13th in the javelin (59-11). The discus and shot put throws were her longest of the season. She had her top throw in the javelin (63-0) at the Lions Invitational April 28, finishing 25th.
The lone female on the Rutgers-Camden indoor track team last winter (2006-07), Taylor competed in three indoor meets in the shot put, with a top put of 30-11 to set a program record and finish second overall at the Lebanon Valley College Invitational (Jan. 27).
Taylor made her Scarlet Raptors athletic debut on the outdoor track and field team during the 2006 spring season. She competed in five invitationals for the Raptors, throwing the shot put and the discus. She finished sixth at the NJAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships (May 6, 2006) with a discus throw of 28.55 meters and was seventh in the NJAC shot put (8.40 meters). Her top shot put of 29-8.25 came at the New Jersey Invitational (April 15). Her top discus throw of 101-0 earned a fifth-place finish at Lebanon Valley (April 12).
Taylor earned a total of eight varsity letters at Haddon Heights High School. She was a four-year letterwinner in track and field under coaches Butch Gale and Don Hinger. She also earned three field hockey letters for Coach Celeste Lomax and an indoor track and field letter under Coach Matt Martin.
Taylor was the South Jersey Group II Discus Champion in 2004 and won various track relay medals during her scholastic career. An outstanding goalie in field hockey, she was named as a Courier-PostTop Goalie and was among the Courier-Post’s South Jersey goalie shutout leaders for both the 2003 and 2004 seasons. She also was named Athlete of the Week for field hockey and was a Field Hockey 2004 Scholarship winner.
Taylor was outstanding in the classroom as well, earning Principal’s List and Honor Roll recognition and winning a Teacher’s Choice Award. A member of the National Honor Society, she ranked 25th in her class of 167. She received the Haddon Heights VFW Post 1958 Scholarship Award for students pursuing a science major. Following her graduation, she has served as a fields event assistant with the Haddon Heights High School track team.
A Biology major at Rutgers-Camden, Becca also is the Co-Chair of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Her accomplishments as a student-athlete earned her recognition as Rutgers-Camden’s NJAIAW Woman of the Year for the 2007-08 scholastic year. She was honored at the annual NJAIAW Woman of the Year luncheon at Seton Hall University Feb. 3, 2008.
Becca is the daughter of Theodore and Regina Taylor of Haddon Heights. |
