Taylor Rooks Biography
Taylor Rooks is an American sportswriter and broadcaster. She is now featured on Thursday Night Football, Bleacher Report, and Turner Sports. Before joining Turner, she worked as a host, reporter, and correspondent for SportsNet New York.
Taylor Rooks Age
Rooks was born on 22 May 1992, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She is 31 years old as of May 2023.
Taylor Rooks Education
Rooks attended Peachtree Ridge High School in Suwanee, Georgia, and graduated in 2010. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and majored in broadcast journalism.
Taylor Rooks Family
Rooks is from an athletic family. She is the daughter of Thomas Rooks, the Illinois Fighting Illini’s leading rusher; the niece of St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Lou Brock; and the niece of Marv Woodson, a former Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints NFL player. She is also the sister of Ryan Rooks, a University of Georgia graduate who used to swim and cheer.
Taylor Rooks Career
Prior to joining the New York Market, she worked for the Big Ten Network. She appeared on BTN Live, BTN Football Pregame, and the Women’s Sports Report. She was a sideline reporter for CBS Sports Network for the 2016-2017 football season. Before joining SNY, CBS, and BTN, Rooks was a football and basketball recruiting writer for scout.com. She appears on-air for significant events such as the Big Ten Football Championship. During her stay at the University of Illinois, Rooks covered and broke national football/basketball recruiting stories for Scout.com. At the age of 19, she appeared on CBS Sports Network to report on the WBB Pre-NIT Championship. Throughout college, she interned for the PGA Tour, Comcast SportsNet Chicago, and Fox Sports/Scout.com.
Rooks worked for scout.com from August 2012 until May 2014, covering Illinois football and basketball. She created national headlines with her reports and insights into the game, particularly in recruitment. Rooks revealed several stories about Cliff Alexander, Jalen Brunson, Quentin Snider, Aaron Jordan, Charles Matthews, and Jayson Tatum. In August 2014, two months after graduating from college, Rooks began working as an on-air host, reporter, and correspondent for the Big Ten Network.[8] She appeared nightly on the popular sports television show BTN Live, which included Dave Revsine, Mike Hall, and Rick Pizzo, as well as analysts Jim Jackson, Chuck Long, and Glen Mason. One of her responsibilities is to communicate with followers and bring their social media subjects to the screen.
Rooks reports on Big Ten games throughout the season and travels extensively for television shows. She and Lisa Byington co-host the Women’s Sports Report, which covers all women’s sports in the Big Ten. Rooks joined SportsNet New York as its newest host, reporter, and anchor in August of 2016. Rooks is also a sideline reporter for CBS Sports Network during the 2016-17 college football season.
Taylor Rooks Net Worth
Rooks has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
