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Published or Revised May 15, 2012
Head Coach Chuck Taylor
Chuck Taylor
Head Coach Chuck Taylor enters his second season leading the Dragons with a 2010 season record of 22-9 and a two-round appearance in the Region XIV Tournament.
“This is shaping up to be a good, fun year,” he said of the 2011-12 season.
Taylor returned to Paris from his most recent job as associate head coach at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. (He was assistant coach under Bill Foy at PJC from 2000 to 2002.) In Taylor’s three seasons at USA, he helped the Jaguars win the Sun Belt Conference championship and an at-large bid in 2007-08 to the NCAA Tournament.
In 2008-09, he helped USA to another 20-win season and finishing as Sun Belt Conference Tournament runner-up. In 2009-10 Taylor helped USA beat 18th-ranked Florida and Arkansas out of the Southeastern Conference.
He had an overall record of 63-33 in three seasons with USA.
While Taylor was assistant coach at the University of North Texas, the Mean Green won the 2006-07 Sun Belt Tournament and an NCAA Tournament berth. UNT won a school record 23 games that season.
Taylor served as head basketball coach of Richland College (in the Dallas County Community College District) in 2005-06, leading his team to a 24-8 record and the Metro Conference Championship. The team ranked third in the final NJCAA poll and was Region V Tournament runner-up.
Prior to Richland College, Taylor was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Texas A&M – Corpus Christi from 2002-05. He helped the Islanders to a 20-8 record in 2004-05 – the first 20-win season in school history – including wins over Baylor, Texas Christian University and Florida State.
While assistant coach at PJC, he helped the Dragons to a 44-20 (68.8 percent) mark. They were the Region XIV Conference Tournament runners-up in 2002. In fact, during his coaching career, Taylor has worked for two coaches, Arrow and Foy, who have won national championships on the junior college level.
Taylor and his wife Claudette have two daughters, Cydni (13) and Czaria (10).
