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Taylor Grimes

Taylor Grimes - Women's Track & Field - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Event Hurdles
Major Materials Science Engineering
Hometown Upper Malboro, Md.
Last School Bishop McNamara
Year Sophomore
Taylor Grimes - Women's Track & Field - Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets

TAYLOR GRIMES CAREER STATS

Awards & Honors:
2022 All-ACC First Team Outdoor (100m Hurdles)
2022 All-ACC Second Team Indoor (60m Hurdles)
2021 All-ACC Second Team (Women’s Long Jump)
2020 All-ACC Second Team (Women’s Long Jump)

2022 Outdoor: Competed at six meets … PR’d in the 100m (12.16) at the Florida State Relays … Won the 100m hurdles (13.61) at the War Eagle Invite … Earned second-place finished in the 100m hurdles (13.61) and 4x100m relay (45.42) at the Georgia Tech Invite … Assisted the 4x100m relay team to second place (45.71) and finished fourth in the 100m hurdles (13.65) at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial Invite … Placed second with a career-best time of 13.37 in the 100m hurdles at the ACC Outdoor Championships … Qualified for the NCAA East Preliminaries, ran a 100m hurdles prelims time of 13.42 and finished the meet with a time of 13.53 in the semifinals

2022 Indoor: Competed at seven meets … Placed second in the 60m hurdles (8.36) and finished fourth in the long jump (5.89m/19-4) at the Clemson Opener … Ran a second-place time of 8.50 in the 60m hurdles at the Clemson Orange & Purple Elite … Earned two second-place performances at the Commodore Indoor meet with a time of 8.42 in the 60m hurdles and a mark of 5.89m (19-4) in the long jump … Won the long jump (5.84m/19-2) at the Carolina Challenge … Placed third in the 60m hurdles (8.33) at the Doc Hale VT Elite … Finished fifth in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.39 at the ACC Indoor Championships

2021 Outdoor: Saw action in seven meets… Qualified for NCAA Division I east Regional Preliminaries in the women’s 100m hurdles and women’s long jump… Placed 34th in the women’s 100m hurdles (13.56) and 43rd in the women’s long jump  (5.53m/18′ 1.75″) at NCAA East Regionals… Helped guide the women’s 4×100 crew to a sixth-place finish at ACC Outdoor Championships… Set personal best marks in the women’s 200m (24.86) and women’s 100m hurdles (13.43) at the Georgia Tech Invite, also finished first in the women’s long jump at that meet… Had a fourth-place outing in the women’s 100m hurdles at the Crimson Tide Invite

2021 Indoor: Laced it up at seven meets during the indoor season… Garnered second team all-ACC honors in the women’s long jump for the second season in a row… Placed sixth in the women’s long jump at ACC Indoor Championships off of a 6.08m/19′ 11.5″ attempt… Eighth-place finisher in the women’s 60m hurdles at ACC Indoor Championships… Had 13 top-10 performances throughout the season… Best outing in the women’s long jump was a 5.92m/19′ 5.25″ effort at the Tiger Paw Invite

2020 Indoor Track: Placed fifth in the women’s long jump at the 2020 ACC Indoor Championships after hitting a mark of 6.15m to earn Second Team All-ACC honors, setting a new PR in that event in the process… One of Tech’s top women’s hurdlers, took second at the Vanderbilt Invitational in the 60m hurdles (8.34)… Had another podium finish in the 60m hurdles at the Charlie Thomas Invitational crossing the line at 8.32 to take second-place… Placed first in the long jump at the 2019 Clemson Opener leaping for a mark of 5.98m… Set a new PR of 8.26 in the 60m hurdles at the Tiger Paw Invitational

2019 Track: Indoor: Recorded a personal best in the long jump, with a jump of 5.88m at the ACC Indoor Track & Field Championships… finished fifth with a PR in the 60m hurdles turning in a time of 8.53 at the Vanderbilt Invitational. Outdoor: Finished fifth with a PR in the 100m hurdles (13.86) at the Torrin Lawrence Memorial… helped Georgia Tech finish first in the 100m shuttle hurdle relay (54.59) at the Florida Relays… set two personal bests at the Georgia Tech Invitational, in the long jump (5.92m) and the 200m (25.50).

Personal: Mother ran track and field at Syracuse University (1990-92)… Father played football at Syracuse University (1982-86)… Enjoys watching Jeopardy… Chose Tech for the track program’s success and coach, academics and location… Majoring in materials science and engineering.

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