Yale

Duke Taylor joined the Yale coaching staff in early 2019 after spending a season coaching at his alma mater, Malone University in Canton, Ohio. He coaches Yale's throwers.

Taylor has made a huge impact on the Bulldogs' throws group, with a pair of Bulldog throwers qualifying for the NCAA East Preliminary Round outdoors in 2022 and one in 2023. Matt Appel advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, becoming the first Bulldog discus thrower to do so since 2012.

Indoors, Taylor has coached the Yale record holders in the men's and women's shot put. Outdoors, Taylor has coached the Yale women's shot put and hammer throw record holders along with the men's discus throw record holder.

The only three-time NCAA Division II First Team All-American in Malone athletics history, Taylor was the NCAA Division II discus national champion in his senior year.  He was the first Pioneer to capture an NCAA Championship.

A native of East Canton, Ohio, Taylor was a two-time first team All-American in the discus (2016, 2017) and became Malone’s first NCAA indoor track & field All-American with an eighth-place finish in the weight throw at the 2017 Indoor National Championship Meet.

Taylor completed his degree in Social Work in the summer of 2017 and received his master’s degree in organizational leadership at Malone in 2019.