UBC Basketball Introduction

Parents and Players,

Welcome to my blog, with which I will use to communicate.  Congrats on making the team.  I know I will do my best to make this worth your time, all I ask is for you to come to practices and work as hard as possible.  My practices will be hard and they will require work.  If you come with a good attitude and an open mind, you will not only become more skilled, but I promise your basketball IQ will go up and you will become a much better player.

So, I am Coach James Taylor.  I currently am a Varsity assistant with Lehi High School, I just finished my first season with them.  I played until my Junior year at Pleasant Grove High School.  I stopped playing to pursue a career in competitive ballroom dancing.  After my Junior year of college, I signed a professional contract with a studio in Las Vegas and DanceLife shoe company, but I suffered a career ending injury.  After that, I started coaching at Cedar High in Cedar City.  I coached there for three seasons.  I also was a 9th grade assistant at Pleasant Grove Junior High for three seasons.  I love coaching, and I really believe that you can teach young men great life lessons through the sport of basketball.

Our administrative assistant is my wife Alycia.  She works for Wells Fargo Bank and will be handling the financial end of our relationship.  She will use the basketball email account or text you if she needs to contact you for payments.  She is also the one you will need talk to if you need some extra time to make a payment.

Our assistant coach is David West.  David just graduated from SUU with a degree in P.E. and Health and a minor in coaching.  He was a manager for both the men's and women's teams for three years at SUU.  We were roommates and teammates on intramural teams in college.  He played basketball and baseball at Mineral County High School in Nevada, playing in the state championship his senior year.

I hope that we can have a successful season!

Coach T