Norco's Taylor Shorter has improved by leaps and bounds

Season Interrupted: Norco’s Taylor Shorter has improved by leaps and bounds

Columnist

June 7, 2020 6 AM PT

Throughout the spring, The Times will interview high school seniors whose athletic careers were cut short by the coronavirus outbreak.

Name: Taylor Shorter

School: Norco

Sport: Track and field, hurdles

Key stats: In 2019 Shorter finished second in the state 300 meters hurdles final

Fall plans: Will attend Nevada Las Vegas

On the season being canceled:

“I was looking forward to the season because I wanted to break a few school records. It was hard mentally because I wasn’t training for anything.”

On last year’s state meet:

“It was nerve-racking. I didn’t have any teammates out there. I had my five coaches and parents. After all the races, it was exciting.”

On her passion for competing in the hurdles:

“I used to be a gymnast. [Track] became my life because I realized I was good at something that I had been thrown into. I started falling in love with it. When I first started hurdling, I was going over plastic hurdles and doing leaps and splits because I had no idea what I was doing. It was, ‘You could tell she’s a gymnast.’”