Taylor’s theory of building an all-around man and not just an all-around player has helped change the mindsets of his former players and affect how they act both on and off the field. Out of the 17 years I’ve been a coach, I’ve seen two players that pay the mortgages with football.” “You play and it’s over, but education is forever. “I try to tell them that football won’t last long,” Taylor said. Robinson had one of the top five football GPAs in the county. Out of the 37 varsity players on the 2017 team, 27 had a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Taylor has spent countless hours a day improving the football program, but he has put similar focus on his players’ academics. It’s a piece of him that has made a tremendous legacy at Robinson. I’m excited to do normal family stuff that you normally don’t get to do when you’re a coach, like helping my daughter with homework.” at a middle school, while still assisting the Robinson football team, before he was hired as full-time head coach in 2013. During college, he traveled back to his alma mater as an assistant coach. Taylor joined the Robinson clan as a student and offensive guard in 1996 and graduated in 2000 before heading to college at Hillsborough Community College and then the University of Tampa. ![]() There are some people that really embody life mottoes, and when it comes to “Once a Knight, Always a Knight,” Taylor fits that description perfectly. ![]() “I guess it’s like a movie, but you don’t feel like that when you’re in it.” “She was a cheerleader, I was a football player,” Taylor said. Fast forward 19 years, and those two mathletes are celebrating their 10-year wedding anniversary in January, and have been together ever since Shawn offered to help her with math. Former head football coach Shawn Taylor’s current social studies classroom sits just two doors down and across the hallway from his former Algebra II class, where he met his girlfriend in 1998.
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