2012-13 (Junior): Recorded a 79.73 scoring average while playing in 15 rounds in his first season since transferring in…Posted a season-best 75 in two different tournaments at Coastal Georgia Fall Invitational and the Matlock Collegiate Classic…Registered a personal-best finish of a tie in 48th at the Coastal Georgia Fall Invitational in his EC debut.

Prior to Eckerd: Transfers in from Dodge City (Kan.) Community College after attending high school at Grandview High School in Colorado...Two-time first-team all-conference selection in school...Posted a scoring average of 73.2 as a senior...Named First Team All-Region in his final season and was a Colorado state qualifier...Three-year varsity team member and played on the junior varsity squad...Earned Honorable Mention All-Region status following his junior campaign which featured a 75.1 scoring average...Improved his scoring average all four years in high school...Appeared in a combined eight tournaments in his first two seasons...Fired a career-low 66 in the first round of the High Plains Amateur in Garden City, Kan., in August of 2011...Coached by Randy Smith.

Personal: Born May 20...Son of Bob and Stephanie Taggart...Has two sisters, Kenzie and Whitney, along with a brother, Danny...Enjoys playing Xbox and going to the beach...Chose Eckerd over the University of Tampa, Stetson University and Kansas University.

Major: Communications.