Taylor Rooks Age (Bleacher Report) Wiki, Bio, Mom, Parents, Basketball

Name Taylor Rooks

Wedding & Marriage / Husband / Engaged / Fiance / Partner Currently not married, possibly single. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB May 22, 1992. As of 2024, she is around 32 years old.

Wikipedia Biography / Profile Background

Introduction :

Born in May 1992, American journalist Taylor Rooks is paving the way for women in sports journalism. She has her own podcast Timeout with Taylor; she has her own show ‘Take it There with Taylor’ on Bleacher Report and also hosts on Turner Sports!
In her work, Taylor covers mostly the basketball and football sports leagues.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Born as the eldest of two siblings, Taylor Rooks was born in St Louis, Missouri, to parents Thomas (father) and Stephanie Rooks (mother). The family later moved to Gwinnett County, Georgia.
She graduated from Peachtree Ridge High School in 2010 and kept tradition in going to the same university as her father – The University of Illinois. She majored in Broadcast Journalism.

Athletics and sports have been a major influence from a young age as her father, Thomas Rooks, was an Illini Running back and a football legend.
Her mother was the Dean at Gwinnett Technical College and helped keep Taylor focused on her education, despite her mother never losing a fantasy football game.
In high school, Rooks ran track and played soccer but knew it wasn’t what she wanted to do, and instead turned her attention to sports journalism.

She briefly dated Grey’s Anatomy fame actor Jesse Williams and gossip websites state that she is currently dating NBA star Kevin Durant who was also one of her first interviews that she did for her own blog ‘Online Sideline.’

Internships & Early Work :

Since high school, Taylor has always wanted to be a journalist. With Pam Oliver as her role model, Rooks started forging her career path in the male-dominated sports industry.

While studying journalism at the University of Illinois, Taylor covered football and basketball recruitment for scout.com
She did internships for Fox sports as well as Comcast SportsNet Chicago and the PGA Tour.
At age 19, she covered the WBB Pre-NIT Championship on CBS Sports Network.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

In 2014, Rooks joined the Big Ten Network as a reporter and on-air host on college sports as well as covering all women’s sports, with Lisa Byington on the Women’s Sports Report.
Armed with good looks & a charming persona, Taylor works hard to earn the respect of her peers as well as fans through her knowledge and understanding of the sport.

Her career was fast-tracked & she moved to New York when Sportsnet New York asked her to be their newest anchor and reporter in August 2016.
She covered the 2016/2017 college football season for CBS Sports Network.
In June 2018, she joined Bleacher Report with her own show and as she says ‘it has always been my hope and aspiration to have my own show.’ She also appears and anchors shows on Turner Sports, TNT and NBA TV.

Interesting Facts and Trivia :

Her uncle is Lou Brock, a professional baseball player who has played for Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals.
She is a die-hard Falcons fan but The New York Giants is a close second.

She loves eating sushi and snowcones.
Taylor’s instagram is wildly popular on social media – she is followed by over 200,000 people on Instagram & by 100K+ followers on her verified Twitter (now called X) account.