{"id":341,"date":"2021-03-09T19:30:12","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T03:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/?page_id=341"},"modified":"2026-02-26T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:50:14","slug":"matt-taylor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/matt-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_pb_fullwidth_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><section class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_0 et_pb_fullwidth_header et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_container center\"><div class=\"header-content-container center\"><div class=\"header-content et_flex_module\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/logoresizedforoilers.png\" width=\"155\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/logoresizedforoilers.png 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" class=\"header-logo wp-image-2299\" \/><h1 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">San Diego Ice Arena<\/h1><span class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_subhead\">SCHA COACHES<\/span><div class=\"et_pb_header_button_wrapper\"><a class=\"et_pb_button et_pb_more_button et_pb_button_one\" href=\"https:\/\/sdice.com\/hockey\/SCAHA-Home.html#sec-5eb8\">Back to SDICE HOCKEY<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_overlay\"><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_fullwidth_header_scroll\"><\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section preset--module--divi-section--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_0 et_pb_team_member et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Matt-Taylor.png\" alt=\"Matt Taylor\" width=\"300\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Matt-Taylor.png 300w, https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Matt-Taylor-254x300.png 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" class=\"wp-image-231097\" \/><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Matt Taylor<\/h4><div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description_content\"><p><span>I began playing ice hockey when my family moved to Chicago. \u00a0My friends invited me to join them for the first time. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The experience playing ice hockey on that day changed my life forever! \u00a0I started playing in the Homewood-Flossmoor Youth Hockey Association and continued through my junior year in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>My family moved to Memphis Tennessee midway through my high school junior year and started playing for the Memphis Eagles 18U AA travel hockey club in the southeastern division of USA Hockey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During my 2 years of hockey with the Eagles, we traveled all over the country playing divisional games and tournaments. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These travel hockey years would fuel my personal development and my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After high school I moved to Houston Texas to start college and played in many different adult men's league programs throughout the city. During those years in Texas I played on D4-D6 teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I moved to California a few years later and continued to play men's leagues, pickup hockey, and roller hockey in San Diego.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When my son was old enough to start playing hockey, we signed him up in the LA Kings Learn to Play Hockey program in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I watched him and the other kids learning to play for the first time which prompted me to start volunteering with the Mites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He played and I coached in Escondido at the Ice-Plex with the Penguin's Mite Program from 2016-2018, and in the fall of 2019 we joined the SDIA Oilers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>My son and I are finishing our third season at SDIA in the Oilers Mite 8U program. I have volunteered on Mites 2 in 2019 &amp; Mites 1 in 2020 with Coach Mike Langridge as his Assistant Coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the fall of 2020 I started as Head Coach of the Mites 6 team. The 2020-2021 has been a blast and I look forward to the growth and development of each player in the 8U and beyond at SDIA!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I began playing ice hockey when my family moved to Chicago. \u00a0My friends invited me to join them for the first time. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The experience playing ice hockey on that day changed my life forever! \u00a0I started playing in the Homewood-Flossmoor Youth Hockey Association and continued through my junior year in high school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>My family moved to Memphis Tennessee midway through my high school junior year and started playing for the Memphis Eagles 18U AA travel hockey club in the southeastern division of USA Hockey. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During my 2 years of hockey with the Eagles, we traveled all over the country playing divisional games and tournaments. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These travel hockey years would fuel my personal development and my life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After high school I moved to Houston Texas to start college and played in many different adult men's league programs throughout the city. During those years in Texas I played on D4-D6 teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I moved to California a few years later and continued to play men's leagues, pickup hockey, and roller hockey in San Diego.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When my son was old enough to start playing hockey, we signed him up in the LA Kings Learn to Play Hockey program in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I watched him and the other kids learning to play for the first time which prompted me to start volunteering with the Mites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He played and I coached in Escondido at the Ice-Plex with the Penguin's Mite Program from 2016-2018, and in the fall of 2019 we joined the SDIA Oilers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>My son and I are finishing our third season at SDIA in the Oilers Mite 8U program. I have volunteered on Mites 2 in 2019 &amp; Mites 1 in 2020 with Coach Mike Langridge as his Assistant Coach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the fall of 2020 I started as Head Coach of the Mites 6 team. The 2020-2021 has been a blast and I look forward to the growth and development of each player in the 8U and beyond at SDIA!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_2 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section preset--module--divi-section--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et-vb-row--no-module et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_column_empty et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-template-blank.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-341","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233233,"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341\/revisions\/233233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdice.com\/embed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}