2020 - #33 - KING'S DAN TAYLOR

The "A & B" Sports Report with Dave Tuengel

Today on the podcast we are blessed to have the Girl's Basketball at King's Dan Taylor with us.

Coach Dan Taylor has over twenty years of coaching boys and girls in the sports of basketball, football, soccer, and track and field. Currently, he is the varsity head girl’s basketball coach at King’s. He teaches PE, Health and Faith and Justice at King's High school. He helps lead the King's C.A.R.E. team (Community, Action, Reconciliation, and Equity) and has done Race, Culture, Diversity, and Equity work in public and private schools.
Since 2012, Coach Taylor has been the Washington State Girls Basketball Coaches Association President. He has been an ASB Advisor, Link Crew Advisor, Black Student Union Advisor, Fellowship of Christian Athletes Advisor, and Social Justice Club Advisor. He has a Master's in School Counseling From Seattle Pacific University and has led workshops on Culturally Engaging Coaching, Team Leadership, College Recruiting, Team Building, and sport-specific sessions.
He is Black and Korean and loves working with students of bi-racial backgrounds by helping them find strength in their identity through their cultural background and academic journeys. He has led workshops on student engagement, culturally responsive teaching, culturally responsive coaching, and other topics relating to equity and diversity issues.
Coach Taylor is addicted to reading (just check out his office) and loves to do anything that is active especially if it is somewhere outdoors in the Northwest. His favorite past time is church ministry, especially with youth and young adults and through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes ministry. His wife coaches soccer and his kids Naji, Monica, and Kobe are also crazy about sports.