Jordan Taylor

Jordan Taylor is the assistant swim coach at University of Utah and serves as the swim director for Next Athletes and the Nike Swim Camps at Westminster University.

Taylor joins Persson’s staff after spending seven seasons as the head coach of the swimming program at Carson-Newman University and during his tenure, he led the program to numerous milestones. The Eagles were nationally ranked each of his seven years there, placed inside the top 10 at the NCAA Championships three times and had over 100 student-athletes achieve All-American status, including more than 50 First-Team All-Americans.

At the conference level, Taylor has coached 19 league champions and finished in the top three at the conference championships in each of his seven seasons. He’s also seen 60 of his pupils named Academic All-Americans, one capture the NCAA’s Elite 90 Award and won Carson-Newman’s Director’s Cup in 2018 as the top academic team on campus.

Prior to his time at Carson-Newman, Taylor was the lead coach of the Warrender Baths Club, Scotland's most successful and largest swimming club. He coached a squad consisting of 19 domestic and international swimmers.

Competitively, Taylor garnered Scottish national titles in multiple events. He also swam for the Scottish national team during his career and was ranked the third-best swimmer in Britain in his main events as an age group swimmer. During his time at University of Edinburgh, the school's swimming program won the British university/collegiate team title at the national championship in 2010.

He earned his college degree at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with honors and with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Applied Sports Science.