In its 36th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade today announced Will Taylor of Dutch Fork High School as its 2020-21 Gatorade South Carolina Baseball Player of the Year. Taylor, who enrolled at Clemson on June 24, is the first Gatorade South Carolina Baseball Player of the Year to be chosen from Dutch Fork High School.
The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Taylor as South Carolina’s best high school baseball player. Now a finalist for the prestigious Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year award to be announced in July, Taylor joins an elite alumni association of state award-winners in 12 sports, including Derek Jeter (1991-92, Kalamazoo High School, Mich.