Tickets for Friday's Taylor Ducks vs Vandegrift Vipers have arrived and will be on sale Friday at the Taylor ISD Central Office, the Taylor Middle School and the Taylor High School. 

Adult tickets are $7 in advance and student tickets are $3. All tickets at the gate will be $7.00.

Taylor Community Services Director Larry Robbins will have tickets available at Central Office till 4 pm. Gametime Friday is 7:30 pm at Ed W. Monroe Memorial Stadium at 9500 McNeil Drive. 

Taylor Athletic Director Rick Cobia has announced another change in this week's scheduled games affecting Taylor's 9th grade and JV football squads.

Thursday, September 2nd, the JV will play Leander Vandegrift here in Taylor at Memorial Field at 6 pm, while the 9th grade will travel to Leander Vandegrift for a 7 pm contest.

Directions -- to Leander Vandegrift: From IH 35, take RR 620 exit, turn left on FM 2222.  Turn left on McNeil Drive (just past 3M at stop light). Continue straight after the circle. Turn left at the entrance just past the stadium. Address: 9500 McNeil Drive, Austin, Texas 78750. 

THS Tennis Coach Vicki Hall has announced that her Ducks tennis team is off to a fats 2-0 start on the Fall Season after beating Pflugerville Hendrickson by a narrow 11-8 margin Monday.

The Ducks netters won their initial match of the season by a 106 margin over Leander.  GO TEAM !!

Coach Holly Turnbough's Lady Ducks volleyball squad saw their season record dip to 7-7 Tuesday when the visiting Thrall Lady Tigers upset Taylor's winning efforts by claiming a four-set victory in the THS gym.

The Lady Ducks fell behind early losing 26-24 and 25-22 in the first two sets. Taylor rallied to win the third set by a 25-22 margin, but lost their momentum as Thrall won the fourth set 25-18.

The Lady Ducks now regroup for Thursday's trip to Hays High School for an invitational tournament.  Play will continue there on Saturday. Game times to be announced! 

Taylor Cross Country Coach Shelli Cobb took 34 runners to Temple for the year's first meet held at the Sammons Golf Course and says "she was pleased" with the squad's efforts.

Alex Garcia (12:59-30th) and Katie Bryant (13:16-42nd) paced the seven Taylor Varsity Girl's efforts in a field of 120 runners, while Courtney Fields (14:32-45th) and Vanessa Castaneda (15:01-62nd) led the Lady Ducks' eight entries in the 160 runner JV Girls Field.

In Boy's action, the Ducks varsity boys ran in a field of 146 runners with David Salazar (16:44-25th) and Elric Martinez (17:01-39th) leading the local team of seven entries.  In JV action, the Ducks best efforts came from Edgar Carrera (18:29-16th) and Albert Vasquez (18:40-17th) in a field of 175 runners.

Taylor's Cross Country squad heads to Lockhart this Saturday. 

Coach Rick Cobia's Taylor Ducks fell to Bryan Rudder in their 2010 season opener Friday at Memorial Field as the Rangers rolled to an impressive 45-7 victory.

Taylor QB Jarvis Caldwell scampered 25 yards for the Ducks' lone touchdown at the midway point of the 4th quarter.

Rudder's Rangers, playing with their first senior class, scored early on a 30-yd field goal by Division I recruit Will Johnson. The Rangers added six TD's to light up the scoreboard, while holding the Ducks to just over 100 yards offense.

Taylor travels to Leander Vandegrift on Friday before returning home to host the  Elgin Wildcats (Sept. 10th) and Manor Mustangs (Sept. 17th.  All kickoffs at 7:30 pm.  

At a special called meeting last week, the Taylor ISD Board of Trustees selected the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Executive Search Services division to conduct the district's search for a new Superintendent.

The cost of the search committee has been erroneously reported by local media as $79,000, when in fact it will cost an estimated $7,900.