Ja'La Taylor

Photo by: Mackenna Kelly

ITF Class:
Senior
OTF Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Saginaw, Mich.
High School:
Saginaw

PERSONAL RECORDS
Outdoor
100: 12.61
High jump: 1.60 meters
Long jump: 5.53 meters
Triple jump: 12.07 meters

Indoor
60: 8.05
200: 26.99
High jump: 1.65 meters
Long jump: 5.76 meters
Triple jump: 12.07 meters

2020 (Outdoor): Season cancelled.

2020 (Indoor): Placed eighth in the long jump (5.28 meters) at the Michigan Silverston Invitational (2/21) … won the triple jump (11.45 meters) and placed third in the long jump (5.55 meters) in the CMU Jack Skoog Open (1/31) … won the triple jump (11.48 meters) and placed third in the long jump (5.44 meters) in a dual meet at Akron (1/17) … finished sixth in the triple jump (11.33 meters) at the GVSU Holiday Open (12/6).

2019 (Outdoor): Finished ninth in the triple jump (11.69 meters) in the Mid-American Conference Championships (5/9-11) in Muncie, Ind.

2019 (Indoor): Placed ninth in the triple jump (11.69 meters) at the Mid-American Conference Championships (5/9-11) in Kent, Ohio … placed ninth in the triple jump (11.59 meters) in the Kent State Doug Raymond Invitational (2/9) … placed sixth in the high jump (1.60 meters) at the Eastern Michigan Can Am International (1/26) … set a personal record (1.65 meters) in placing fifth in the high jump and placed seventh in the triple jump (11.31 meters) at the Notre Dame Invitational (1/19) … won the high jump (1.61 meters) and placed fourth in the long jump (5.63 meters) at the CMU Jack Skoog Open (1/11) … finished eighth in the long jump (5.56 meters) and in the triple jump (11.20 meters) at the GVSU Holiday Open (2/7).

2018 (Outdoor): Placed ninth in the triple jump (11.63 meters) at the Mid-American Conference Championships (5/10-12) in Buffalo, N.Y. … set a personal record (1.60 meters) in the high jump and placed sixth in the 4x100 relay (46.47) at the Louisville Lenny Lyles-Clark Wood Invitational (4/27-28) … posted a personal best (12.61) in the 100 meters at the Ohio State Jesse Owens Classic (4/20-21) … finished sixth and set a personal record (5.53 meters) in the long jump and placed seventh in the triple jump (11.50 meters) in the Ole Miss Joe Walker Invitational (4/13-14) … placed ninth in the long jump (5.52 meters) and in the triple jump (11.62 meters) at the North Carolina State Raleigh Relays (3/30-31).

2018 (Indoor): Placed seventh in the triple jump (11.98 meters) and ninth in the long jump (5.68 meters) in the Mid-American Conference Championships (2/23-24) in Bowling Green, Ohio … placed fifth in the triple jump (10.81 meters) and seventh in the high jump (1.60 meters) at the Michigan Silverston Invitational … placed sixth in the long jump (5.57 meters) in the GVSU Big Meet Invitational (2/9) … set a personal record (12.07 meters) in placing fourth in the triple jump at the Akron-College Invitational (2/2-3) … placed second in the triple jump (11.41 meters) at the SVSU Jet’s Pizza Invitational (1/26-27) … won the triple jump (11.78 meters) and placed third in the 60 meters (8.11) in the SVSU Doug Hansen Open (1/19) … set a personal record (5.76 meters) in placing second in the long jump and won the triple jump (11.71 meters) at the CMU Jack Skoog Invitational (1/12).

2017 (Outdoor): Finished third in the triple jump (11.74 meters) at the Tennessee Rust Buster (3/25) … finished seventh in the triple jump (11.73 meters) at the Baylor Invitational (4/8) … won the triple jump (11.74 meters), placed second in the 4x100 relay (46.93) and placed fourth in the long jump (5.26 meters) at the Oakland Golden Grizzlies Invitational (4/15) … placed eighth (47.46) in the 4x100 relay at the Ohio State Jesse Owens Classic … finished seventh (12.07) in the triple jump at the Mid-American Conference Championships (5/12).

2017 (Indoor): Won the triple jump (11.58 meters) in her first collegiate meet, the SVSU Holiday Open (12/2) … won the triple jump (11.85 meters), finished third in the long jump (5.48 meters) and fourth in the 60 (8.05) at the CMU Jack Skoog Open (1/13) … won the long jump (5.48 meters) and the triple jump (11.52 meters) at the SVSU Doug Hansen Open (1/20) … finished second in the triple jump (11.76 meters) and was fourth in the long jump (5.53 meters) at the EMU Triangular (1/28) … finished second (11.90 meters) in the triple jump at the GVSU Big Meet Invitational (2/10) … placed third in the long jump (5.27 meters) at the GVSU Tune-Up (2/17) … finished seventh in the triple jump (11.77 meters) at the Mid-American Conference Championships (2/24).

High School: Four-year letterwinner ... team captain ... runner-up in the long jump at the 2015 Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 2 State Finals as a junior ... Saginaw Valley League (SVL) champion in the 100-meter dash as a senior in 2016, (runner-up in 2015) ... SVL champion in the long jump as a junior in 2015 ... also earned two varsity basketball letters ... basketball team captain.