{"id":28598,"date":"2024-03-19T23:43:16","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T23:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-womens-basketball-head-coach-taylor-harris-resigns\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T06:34:08","slug":"fort-lewis-womens-basketball-head-coach-taylor-harris-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fort-lewis-womens-basketball-head-coach-taylor-harris-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lewis women\u2019s basketball head coach Taylor Harris resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=367af630-4105-5642-9087-ad2ddabf916e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"950\" height=\"1188\" alt=\"Fort Lewis College women\u2019s head coach Taylor Harris coaches his team while playing Western Colorado University on Feb. 17, 2024, at Whalen Gymnasium. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Fort Lewis College women\u2019s head coach Taylor Harris coaches his team while playing Western Colorado University on Feb. 17, 2024, at Whalen Gymnasium. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Fort Lewis College women\u2019s basketball coach Taylor Harris resigned from his head coaching position, he confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed my time at Fort Lewis and in Durango,\u201d Harris said. \u201cI\u2019m just moving back home to Denver to be closer to my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A job posting was posted on the Fort Lewis careers page for the head women\u2019s basketball coach on Monday, but that page <a href=\"https:\/\/fortlewiscollege.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com\/en-US\/FLC\/job\/Coach--Women-s-Basketball_JR1475-1\" id=\"link-285c5ed8109c39d3dd86ff6f8045df1c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disappeared<\/a> Tuesday before this article was published.<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 first season as head coach of the Skyhawks was in 2021-22. In his three seasons, he finished with a record of 23-60. In 2021-22, the Skyhawks went 2-25. In 2022-23, Fort Lewis went 9-19. This past season, the Skyhawks went 12-16.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Harris\u2019 resignation, Fort Lewis Director of Athletics Travis Whipple said: \u201cInstitutional policy doesn\u2019t allow for additional comment. We have started a search process for our next head women\u2019s basketball coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 resignation leaves some question marks over what the Skyhawks\u2019 players will do without Harris as the head coach. The transfer portal is open for players in Division II women\u2019s basketball. Fort Lewis had only two seniors this past season.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-2efe8cd22af91f6e6ff80a46e2e29f44\"><a href=\"mailto:bkelly@durangoherald.com\">bkelly@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>three seasons, he finished with a 23-60 record, trending better each year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[992,132,28,346,1805],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-28598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-college-sports","tag-fort-lewis-college","tag-headlines","tag-sports","tag-womens-college-sports"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80468,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28598\/revisions\/80468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28598"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=28598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}