Rebecca (“Becca”) Taylor heads into her third outdoor track season to complete a busy year, which saw her earn Rutgers-Camden varsity letters in cross country and indoor track.
Taylor also was named Rutgers-Camden’s recipient of the NJAIAW Woman of the Year honor, awarded annually to outstanding student-athletes from colleges and universities around the state by the New Jersey Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. She was one of 39 collegians honored Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008 at Seton Hall University.
Taylor participated in her second season on the indoor track team over the winter, competing in the shot put in four invitationals. She saved her best for last, setting a program indoor record of 9.55 meters (31-4) during a 12th-place finish in the New Jersey Athletic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championship Feb. 25.
The lone female on the Rutgers-Camden indoor track team during the 2006-07 winter season, Taylor competed in three indoor meets in the shot put, with a top put of 30-11 to set the old program record and finish second overall at the Lebanon Valley College Invitational (Jan. 27, 2007).
Taylor ran her second season of cross country last fall, competing in all six invitationals for the Raptors. She posted her top 6K time of 37:55.8 in the final meet of the season, the NCAA Atlantic Regionals Nov. 10, 2007. 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 also has earned two outdoor track letters 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 NJAC 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.
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 Championship (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.
Becca is the daughter of Theodore and Regina Taylor of Haddon Heights.
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