Tate Taylor (sprinter)

For the filmmaker, see Tate Taylor (filmmaker).

Tate Taylor (born September 26, 2007)^[1] is an American sprinter from San Antonio, Texas who attends San Antonio Harlan School. In 2025, he set an American under-20 record for the 100 metres, running a wind legal 9.92 seconds.^[2]

Tate Taylor

Personal information
Born	(2007-09-26) September 26, 2007 (age 17)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event	Sprint
Achievements and titles
Personal bests	60 m: 6.64 (New York 2025) 100 m: 9.92 NU20R (Austin 2025) 200 m: 20.14 (Austin 2025)

Career

2023-2024

As a high school freshman in 2023, Taylor ran 10.59 seconds in the 100 metres, albeit with a +3.6 m/s wind. The following year, he ran 6.75 indoors for the 60 meters and 21.05 for the 200 meters, placing 5th in both events at the New Balance Indoor Nationals. Outdoors, Taylor improved to 10.28 seconds with a -1.2 m/s wind, finishing runner-up in the 100 meters at the UIL State 6A Track and Field Championships.^[3] He also placed 4th in the 200 meters in 21.15 and ran anchor for the 5th placed 4 x 100 meters team (40.09). That year, he finished runner-up in the 200 metres at the national high school championships.^[4] In July 2024, running for San Antonio Swift Track Club, he won the 200m final at the USATF National Junior Olympics. Running into a strong headwind, Taylor managed to win with a personal-best effort of 20.66 seconds (-1.3 m/s).^[5]

2025

In March 2025, at the boys indoor 200m final at Nike Indoor National Championships he ran 20.46 seconds for the 200 metres, to set a new high school national indoor record, eclipsing the previous mark of 20.48 seconds set by Issam Asinga at the 2023 New Balance Nationals Indoor. It also broke the Armory High School meet record of 20.63 seconds, previously held by Noah Lyles in 2016.^[6] Taylor also finished runner-up in the 60 metres race, in a time of 6.64 seconds.^[7]

He broke the ten-second barrier for the 100 metres running 9.92 seconds at the UIL State 6A Track and Field Championships on 3 May 2025 (+1.1 m/s).^[8] The time moved him to second on the all-time U20 sprinter list worldwide, with the only athlete faster in this age group being Letsile Tebogo from Botswana who ran 9.91 seconds as a teenager, and eclipsed the American record set by Christian Miller in 2024 of 9.93 seconds.^[3][9] At the same meeting, Taylor also won the 200 metres with a 20.14 seconds finishing time, setting a Texas high school state record but fell 0.01 seconds short of Roy Martin's national high school record of 20.13 seconds, set in 1985.^[10] Taylor explained after the race that he elected to shut it down and coast across the line because he felt a minor twinge in his hamstring.^[11]