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Taylor, Duke
Duke Taylor
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Duke Taylor joins the Princeton Men’s Track and Field staff after spending the last six years coaching at Yale University.
During his tenure at Yale, Coach Taylor made a huge impact on the Bulldogs' throws group. A pair of Bulldog throwers qualified for the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary Round in 2022 and 2024, with one in 2023. Taylor also helped coach Matt Appel to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, becoming the first Bulldog discus thrower to do so since 2012.
While at Yale, Taylor’s athletes re-wrote the record books in several events. Indoors, Taylor coached the Yale record-holders in the men's and women's shot put and weight throw. Outdoors, he coached the women's shot put and hammer throw record-holders along with the men's discus throw record-holder. During his tenure, he coached 34 Top-10 performances, and in 2024, the men’s discus squad finished ninth in the NCAA, the highest ranking in program history.
The only three-time NCAA Division II First Team All-American in Malone Athletics history, Taylor was the NCAA Division II discus national champion in his senior year. He was the first Pioneer to capture an NCAA Championship.
A native of East Canton, Ohio, Taylor was a two-time First Team All-American in the discus (2016, 2017) and became Malone’s first NCAA indoor track & field All-American with an eighth-place finish in the weight throw at the 2017 Indoor National Championship Meet.
Taylor completed his degree in Social Work in the summer of 2017 and received his master’s degree in organizational leadership at Malone in 2019.
During his tenure at Yale, Coach Taylor made a huge impact on the Bulldogs' throws group. A pair of Bulldog throwers qualified for the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary Round in 2022 and 2024, with one in 2023. Taylor also helped coach Matt Appel to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, becoming the first Bulldog discus thrower to do so since 2012.
While at Yale, Taylor’s athletes re-wrote the record books in several events. Indoors, Taylor coached the Yale record-holders in the men's and women's shot put and weight throw. Outdoors, he coached the women's shot put and hammer throw record-holders along with the men's discus throw record-holder. During his tenure, he coached 34 Top-10 performances, and in 2024, the men’s discus squad finished ninth in the NCAA, the highest ranking in program history.
The only three-time NCAA Division II First Team All-American in Malone Athletics history, Taylor was the NCAA Division II discus national champion in his senior year. He was the first Pioneer to capture an NCAA Championship.
A native of East Canton, Ohio, Taylor was a two-time First Team All-American in the discus (2016, 2017) and became Malone’s first NCAA indoor track & field All-American with an eighth-place finish in the weight throw at the 2017 Indoor National Championship Meet.
Taylor completed his degree in Social Work in the summer of 2017 and received his master’s degree in organizational leadership at Malone in 2019.
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