Career Accolades
- Two-time All-Pac-12 (2018, 2019)
- Two-time IRA All-Academic selection (2018, 2019)
- Pac-12 All-Academic first team (2018)
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention (2019)
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll (2020)
As a Senior (2019-20)
- Team captain
- Pac-12 Academic Honor Roll
- Season canceled
As a Junior (2018-19):
- All-Pac-12
- IRA All-Academic
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention
- Member of the Varsity Eight, which placed 10th at the IRA Championships
As a Sophomore (2017-18)
- All-Pac-12 Team
- IRA All-Academic
- Pac-12 All-Academic first team
- Member of Varsity Eight, primarily rowed in the six-seat and placed third at Pac-12 Championships
As a Freshman (2016-17)
- Member of the Varsity Eight for most of his freshman year
- Primarily rowed in the No. 4 seat of the Varsity Eight
- Competed in Varsity Eight that placed third at the Pac-12 Championships and 15th in the IRA Championships
International Competition
- Won a silver medal in the junior 8+ at the 2016 Junior World Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Member of the USRowing Junior Nationals Worlds Development Team in 2015, which competed in Banyoles, Spain
Prior to Stanford
- Attended USRowing Junior National Team Selection Camp in 2015 and High Performance Camp in 2015
- A 2016 graduate of St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas
- Rowed for Dallas United Crew
- Won Texas state championships in the V8+ in 2015 and 2016
- Won Texas state championships in the V4+ in 2015 and 2016
- Won Texas state V2 title in V2- in 2016
- Won Central Regional titles in the V4+ in 2015 and V8+ in 2016
- Sixth at the 2015 USRowing Youth National Championships in the V4+
Personal
- Parents are Walter Taylor, III and Joan Taylor
- Has a twin sister, Sarah, who is a coxswain on the rowing team at Stanford
- First cousin Paris Henken was a 2016 Olympic sailor
- First cousin Hans Henken sailed for Stanford and is a professional sailor
- Became Eagle Scout in 2014
- Founder and president of the St. Mark's Ramp Club, which constructed ramps for disabled and elderly
- Won his high school's Ralph B. Rogers Literature Award in 2013 for outstanding achievement in literature and writing