Carl Taylor Named Head Softball Coach

PHILADELPHIA - Drexel Athletics has announced the hiring of Carl Taylor as the next head coach of the softball program. Taylor has served as the interim head coach of the team since the beginning of February.

Taylor led the Dragons to 19 wins this past season after joining the team just two weeks before the season began. The squad finished sixth in conference with six victories over Colonial Athletic Association opponents. Under his direction Sylvia Llamas and Paula Ueno each earned First Team All-CAA honors, making them the first Dragons to earn this recognition since 2012.

"It is a great honor to be named as the head coach for the softball program," Taylor remarked. "My time here thus far has been a tremendous experience and I am looking forward to great things in the future. It is great to be a part of the Drexel family and I'd like to offer my sincere gratitude to the administration for giving me the opportunity to move forward with the program."

Taylor takes over the Dragons after a four-year stint as the head softball coach at Winslow High School in Atco, N.J., where he has been teaching health and physical education since 1984. In addition, Taylor was an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Force women's professional softball team based out of Allentown, Pa. from 2008-2009 after being an assistant coach at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, N.J. for the 2007-08 season.

Prior to this, Taylor served as the head softball coach at Rutgers-Camden from 1995 to 2007 during which he led the Scarlet Raptors to become 2006 Division III National Champions after a 47-5 season that included a 29-game winning streak. This marked the only time in Rutgers-Camden history that a team had accomplished this feat. Taylor and his assistants were named the NFCA Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year for the team's outstanding performance that season.

While at Rutgers-Camden, Taylor was a three-time New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year recipient and his teams were named NJAC Conference Champions and Tournament Champions in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. In 2011, Rutgers-Camden inducted Taylor and the 2006 National Championship-winning softball team into its Athletics Hall of Fame. During his time at Rutgers-Camden, Taylor also had a brief stint as the head coach of the women's basketball and women's volleyball teams.

Taylor was drafted in the third round of the 1979 Major League Baseball draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is a 1982 graduate of New Mexico Highlands University where he earned a bachelor of arts in health and physical education.

A resident of Voorhees, N.J., Taylor officially assumes his role as the head coach beginning on July 1.

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Players Mentioned

Sylvia Llamas

Paula Ueno

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