Dominique Taylor joined the staff as assistant coach in June 2011.
Taylor, who previously served as assistant coach at Neosho County Community College, played three seasons for Arrow and assistant coach Michael Floyd at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi from 2004-07. With the Jaguars, he will work primarily with the guards and provide scouting reports for opponents during the season.
“I’d like to thank Coach Arrow and the University for this tremendous opportunity. I really believe in what Coach Arrow does here with the program and truly believe that we as a staff have a chance to get South Alabama back on the winning track. I’m glad to be reunited with Coach Arrow and Coach Floyd; I have the utmost respect for them. I’m excited to be here.”
The Grand Rapids, Mich. native has spent the last two seasons at Neosho County where he helped lead the Panthers to a 20-win season in 2009-10 and coached six players that went on to NCAA Division I schools, including current Jaguars Antione Lundy and 2011-12 signee Trey Anderson. Lundy was a 2009-10 National Junior College Athletic Association All-American and Anderson was a first-team all-region selection.
“When he played for me, I could tell that he wanted to go into coaching,” Arrow said. “I always thought he’d be good and he’s proven that. He’s one of the hardest workers in the business and had a good rapport with everyone on the team. His work ethic as a player was unbelievable; he was always asking to watch more tape and was inquisitive about the game.
“He knows our system, our style and what we ask of our players. He is a coach that players can understand and I know they will respect him.”
The 2009-10 Panthers were the top rebounding team in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference, including Lundy’s league-leading 13.7 average, and finished tied for third in the KJCCC Eastern Division with a 12-6 mark.
Taylor served as recruiting coordinator and assisted with all aspects of the program, including on-the-court coaching, practice planning, academic progress, travel planning and scheduling. He also was involved with team public relations, fundraising and promotional activities.
“I really think he’s one of the best up-and-coming young coaches in the country, not only as a recruiter because he is well-connected but he wants to put in his time to be a Division I head coach. There’s no doubt in my mind that he’ll be a very good head coach eventually and I will say that he’s one of the top recruiters out there today.”
In addition to his coaching duties at NCCC, Taylor was an adjunct faculty member where he taught undergraduate courses in personal training and coaching basketball.
As a student at Texas A&M-Commerce he served as an assistant in the Department of Health and Human Performance where he aided in exercise testing research in the fields of biomechanics, motor learning and controls. Taylor proctored and instructed students in the exercise physiology lab, reviewed and assisted student assignments and provided help with lab experiments.
Taylor earned three varsity letters at TAMUCC from 2005-08, after redshirting his freshman campaign, and was a part of three 20-win teams. As a sophomore he was a member of a squad that posted a school-record 26 victories, won the Southland Conference regular season and tournament titles in its first year of membership and earned a bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament.
Active in community service, Taylor has participated in programs that encourage young people to read and was a volunteer for the Conquer the Coast bicycle race. In 2004 he was awarded the St. Thomas Aquinas Leadership Scholarship from Aquinas (Mich.) College and was a member of the Grand Rapids Junior Rotary Club.
