
sometimes it’s better for you to step back and reflect and look what I could have done right here or what I could have done right there,” he said. Taylor said he learned “a lot” while he was injured. But I knew I had to give my team some encouragement.” Every day they went out for practice it hurt me deep because I remember me putting on my practice pads, my practice jersey and then every Friday it hurt even worse knowing I’m not going to be on the field. But I knew I couldn’t let this get me down or (let) my team (see that it was). As soon as I learned I broke it I broke down in tears because I knew that my senior season was done. The team was struggling, but we were getting back into it and everything was coming into the flow and then this happened. “I thought I was going to have a good senior season. With his right hand out of commission, so was Taylor. Then the doctor said I was done for the season,” Taylor said. Then I let my dad see it and he noticed my hand was swollen like a baseball mitt so he took me to the ER and they said it was broke. I didn’t even bother to tape it up or nothing like that. I thought I just jammed it so I kept going. The Stallions struggled to their worst season (3-8) in years, and Taylor missed the last four games after being injured in a 14-0 loss to East Duplin on Oct. You’re going to miss all your family, some of your close friends, the coaches and Southwest.’” “But it’s been tough (waiting for this day) because you know it’s coming and part of you is, ‘Yes, I’m ready to go and hope to get better,’ and part of you is like, ‘Man, you know you’re leaving pretty soon. I’m going to miss it, and I love it,” he said. “It feels good knowing that what I’ve done for the past four years has helped me and got me to where I’m at right now. It’s also been tough waiting for this day since he committed to Virginia Tech over, amoing others, Michigan and coach Jim Harbaugh as well as Wisconsin, Florida and Tennessee as well as Atlantic Coast Conference schools North Carolina State, North Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest and Virginia along with East Carolina. Just knowing that over the past years how I’ve seen everything change, how I’ve seen myself get better, I’ve seen myself develop to now, ah.
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I remember I sat outside my classroom for a good 15 minutes just watching everybody walk around. “I can remember my first day getting to high school. Now they’re taking a leadership role of being the new team captain and the new person to help keep the team together,” he said. I can remember some of my guys that I helped get better. It’s my senior year so it’s more special than the past previous years. Taylor hugged an untold number and then he and his friends sang out a cheer and sprinted down the hallway. Taylor sat down with The Daily News to talk about his impending journey to Blacksburg, Va., after an emotional and tearful farewell with some of his teammates and classmates on his final day of at Southwest High School before the holiday break.
