Prior to SVSU/Personal: Played for head coach Tim Bennett at Middleton Grange High School in New Zealand...averaged 12 points and four rebounds per game while playing in the Canterbury Region under 23 last year in New Zealand...helped Middleton Grange finish seventh in the nation...was the captain of the team...born on January 16, 1987...son of Kathryn and Michael Taylor...majoring in exercise science.