2024: Transferred to Stony Brook for the 2024 season where he played in 18 games, starting in 14, for the Seawolves … Closed out the season hitting .2471 with 13 hits that included five doubles and a home run, while driving in 11 runs … Best outing came against Campbell (Apr. 14) where he finished with three hits and two runs scored … In a pair of games against LSU, finished with a pair of doubles (Feb 23) and three RBI (Feb. 25) … Recorded 43 putouts.
2023: Named to the Northeast-10 All-Conference Second Team as an outfielder … Played in all 43 games, starting all but one, as the everyday centerfielder … Closed out the season leading the Blue and Gold with a .373 batting average, scattering 56 hits, second most on the team, across150 at bats … Drove in 31 runs and scored 38 times, while 14 of his hits went for extra bases on eight doubles, a triple and five home runs … Also registered 19 walks and was second on the team with 21 stolen bases which came on 22 attempts … Capped off the season with 104 putouts, third most on the team … Hit safely in 33 games, including a season-best streak of 13 straight games … Put up multiple hits in 16 games … Twice finished with a season-best four hits, the first in the NE10 opening weekend against Adelphi (Mar. 26) when he went 4-of-5 with an RBI and three runs scored … Matched that hit total nearly a month later in a home game versus Saint Thomas Aquinas, again going 4-of-5, while driving in two runs and one of those four hits going for three bases … Drove in four runs on a pair of occasions, the first of which came in a non-conference matchup with Adelphi (Mar. 15) when he went 3-for-5 with a double and two runs scored … Added another four RBI when he drilled a pair of home runs as part of a 3-for-5 effort against Pace (Apr. 2) … Set a season-high going a perfect 3-for-3 in stolen base attempts in a home win over Felician (Apr. 8) … Earned Academic Distinction (Fall 2022) and Academic Honors (Spring 2023) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the fall semester.
2022: Named to the Northeast-10 All-Conference Third Team as an outfielder … One of three players to start all 43 games as the everyday center fielder … Closed out the season batting .337, second on the team, while leading the Chargers with 56 hits scattered across 166 at bats … Drove in 28 runs and scored 38 times, the latter of which is tied for the most on the team … Among her team-high hits were 20 extra base knocks on a team-best 15 doubles, three triples and a pair of home runs … Added seven stolen bases … Hit safely in 30 games, including 19 games with multiple hits … Finished with multiple hits in each of the first nine games he hit safely in … Best outing of the season came in the series opener against Le Moyne where he finished a perfect 4-of-4 with a pair of RBI and three runs scored … Two of those hits against the Dolphins were home runs … Finished one other game with a season-best four hits, which came on five at bats with two RBI and two runs scored in the series opener against crosstown rival Southern Connecticut (May 6) … Drove in multiple runs in 11 games … Closed out a four-game series against Saint Rose (May 1) going 3-of-5 at the plate with all three hits going for extra bases on a pair of doubles and a triple, also driving in two runs and scoring twice … Earned Academic Honors accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll following the Spring 2022 semester.
2021: Named to the Northeast-10 All-Conference First Team as an outfielder, the tenth such Charger to receive that honor ... Played in 16 games, starting all of them ... Hit safely in 11 of the 16 games with a batting average of .339 (second on team) ... Led team in RBIs (12), doubles (7), and slugging percentage (.607) ... Was also second in home runs (2) and total bases (34) ... Had six games of two or more hits ... Had a hot four-game stretch from April 24 to May 1 where he collected nine hits and had a pair of three-hit games, one against Southern Connecticut (Apr. 24) and the other against American International (Apr. 28) ... Collected season-high four RBIs in a win over SCSU (Apr. 23) ... Added a three-RBI game against Saint Rose (Apr. 18).
2020: Also named to the New Haven Dean's List following the Spring semester ... Started all eight games for the Chargers in a season limited due to the CoVID-19 pandemic … Led the team with eight RBI … Tied for the team lead with four doubles … Clubbed one home run … Went 2-for-4 with five RBI against Stonehill, including a grand slam for his first career home run … Added a two-run double against Saint Thomas Aquinas (Mar. 7) … Earned Academic Honors (Fall) and Academic Distinction (Spring) accolades on the Northeast-10 Academic Honor Roll and named to the New Haven Dean’s List following the Spring semester.
High School: Three-time selection to the Western New England Prep Baseball League Underclass All-Star Game … Second Team All-League honoree as a sophomore in 2017 and a First Team selection in 2018 and 2019 … Awarded the team’s Gut Willig Award as the squad’s most outstanding hitter (twice) and best pitcher (once) … Inducted into Frederick Gunn’s Honor Circle … Honor roll student all four years … Also a member of the crew team for one year.
Personal: Son of Wendy and Robert Taylor … Has one brother, Christopher, and two sisters, Stephanie and Courtney ... His aunt Beverly Hollis played professional softball for the Connecticut Brakettes in the 1940s-50s ... Majoring in psychology.
