Brooke Taylor
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- Hometown:
- Knoxville, Tenn.
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- Year:
- Junior
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- High School:
- Hardin Valley Academy
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- Events:
- Jumps
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- Major:
- Elementary Education
Bio
2025: Indoor - Excelled at the VMI Team Challenge, earning first place in the triple jump with a distance of 11.34m and second place in the long jump with a distance of 5.49m. Sixth-place finish in the long jump at the VMI Invitational. She set her PR in the 60m at the Liberty Open with a 7.89. At the SAC Championships, Taylor came in fifth in both the long jump, 5.53m, and triple jump, 11.36m.
Outdoor - Started the outdoor period with a third-place finish at the Lee University Invitational with a long jump of 5.68m. The next week at the King University Invitational, she set her PR in the 100m and won the event with a time of 12.39 seconds, and came in second in the triple jump with 11.38m. In the SAC Championships, she stepped on the podium with a third-place finish in the long jump, 5.84m, and the triple jump, 12.03m, both being PRs for her. Saw her year come to a close in the LR Last Chance Meet, finishing in second in the long jump, 5.58m, and fourth with an 11.72m triple jump.
2024: Indoor - Began the season setting two personal records at the Bast-Cregger Multi Invitational, one of which is the triple jump, where she placed second in the event with a distance of 11.50m and the other in the 60-meter sprint with a time of 7.91. Placed fifth in both the long and triple jumps at the SAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Outdoor - Earned first-place finish at the Montreat College Open in the long jump with a distance of 5.56m. Placed third in the long jump at the SAC Outdoor Track and Field Championships while setting a new personal record with a distance of 5.80m.
2023: Indoor - Placed third in her first collegiate long jump event at the Bast-Cregger Multi Invitational, placed fourth in the triple jump at the SAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Outdoor - Competed in the 100-meter dash, where she set her PR in the event at the Montreat College Open, placing ninth with a time of 12.89.
HIGH SCHOOL: All-5Star Preps for field events 2021, All-state in 4x1, 4x2, triple jump, and long jump 2021, All-state in long jump 2019, 2020
PERSONAL: Her uncle, David Waggoner, played quarterback at MTSU from 1982 to 1985. Her grandfather, Martin Taylor, played football at Kentucky.
News mentions
College Sports Communicators honored nine Carson-Newman track and field athletes in the 2025 CSC Track & Field/Cross Country Academic All-District Teams.
In the final meet before nationals, Carson-Newman Track and Field had multiple strong performances in the final push to get national qualifiers.
Carson-Newman finishes third for the men’s side and eighth on the women’s side after the South Atlantic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Carson-Newman Track and Field had big showings at the 2025 App State Open.
Carson-Newman Track and Field collected multiple personal records and top-ten finishes at the 2025 Tennessee Invitational.
Carson-Newman featured strong results at the 2025 Tennessee Invitational.
For the second consecutive week Oluwatimi Williams makes a school record fall.
Carson-Newman Track and Field began its outdoor slate with a bevy of strong results at the Lee Invitational.
Carson-Newman Track and Field had a stellar outing on day one of the South Atlantic Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Four more first-place finishes highlight Carson-Newman’s trip to the 2025 Liberty Open.
Carson-Newman Track and Field returned after a week off at the 2025 Liberty Open.
Carson-Newman Track and Field showed out with three first-place finishes and two new school records at the VMI Invitational.
Carson-Newman’s indoor track and field season began with strong results on both the men’s and women’s sides at the VMI Team Challenge hosted by Virginia Military Institute.