Taylor Clagett is a marketing director from Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, United States. He is now a new contestant to appear on longest running quiz game show, Jeopardy!, this season.
Taylor Clagett (pictured with Jeopardy host Ken Jennings) will make his debut on the 39th season of Jeopardy on the 21 July episode. (Source: Notre Dame Men’s Lacrosse’s Facebook)
On the new Jeopardy episode, he will compete against a previous episode’s champion Nik Berry, a social studies teacher from Baltimore, Maryland. Similarly, he will face another contestant, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based environmental consultant Ben Sasamoto.
Nike is a new one-day champion who won the 20 July episode yesterday. There, he ended the winning streak of a two-day champion David Bederman, an attorney from Los Angeles, California. Additionally, he will return as a champion with a total one-day winnings of $9,601.
Where their NAME was conceived, Ken. Their n a m e. #Jeopardy! pic.twitter.com/cXL4RG12WO
— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) July 21, 2023
Clagett is excited to be part of the popular quiz game show, Jeopardy! He has overcome a successful journey toward the syndicated show with a lengthy selection process. Likewise, he will make his debut on the show in the upcoming episode which airs on Friday, 21 July 2023.
Well, Jeopardy is in its 39th season of syndication which has been airing since 1984. It is now hosted by Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik after the death of veteran host Alex Trebek in 2020.
There, contestants are given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or idea that the clue describes, phrasing each response in the form of a question.
Learn about the Jeopardy contestant Taylor Clagett’s wiki, age, family, job, marital status, and personal life details.
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Taylor Clagett Wiki, Age & Family
Clagett has reached the age of 37 now. He was born on 2 July 1986 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.
As per wiki, he is the son of American parents Stephen Clagett and Marjorie Clagett. His parents raised him in Chesapeake Beach, a town in Calvert County, Maryland.
One of the three children in the family, he is accompanied by two older siblings. His older brother Steven Clagett played for Notre Dame from 2001 to 2004 and also was a two-time captain.
Taylor Clagett pictured with his older brother Steven Clagett who played for Notre Dame from 2001 to 2004. (Source: dematha_lacrosse’s Facebook)
Steve is a former Navy veteran and now serves as a Scouting Research & Development Manager at the NFL team Baltimore Ravens. He earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 2022.
Clagett Was A Lacrosse Player At High School & College
Clagett attended DeMatha Catholic High School in Hyattsville, Maryland. There, he played both lacrosse and soccer for four years. He also led his soccer team to win the state championship in his senior season.
After graduating from high school in 2004, he went to the University of Notre Dame – Mendoza College of Business. He played collegiate lacrosse there and won 624 of the 1,036 faceoffs he took for a .602 winning percentage.
Moreover, he was a four-time monogram winner, and five of the eight points he scored over 54 career games went for goals. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Anthropology in 2008. Afterward, he went to Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management and earned an MBA in Management and Organizations Strategy in 2017.
Taylor Clagett Job Details
Clagett holds the job as a director of marketing growth strategy at AT&T, an American multinational telecommunications company. He has been serving there for more than six years, joining in 2017.
Furthermore, he also serves as the coach of the Dutch national lacrosse squad which recently placed 14th in the World Championships.
Taylor Clagett '04 (right) with Jeopardy host Ken Jennings. Taylor will appear on Jeopardy next Friday (7/21). Tune in to see how he does! Taylor is also the coach of the Dutch national lacrosse squad which recently placed 14th in the World Championships. pic.twitter.com/36sCyCkZZM
— DeMatha Catholic High School (@DeMathaCatholic) July 14, 2023
Earlier, he held a job in HSBC Commercial Banking for seven years. During that time, he served as a Relationship Manager of Corporate Banking in the Netherlands branch for two years.
Is Taylor Clagett A Married Man?
Clagett is a married man. He has been enjoying over four years of matrimony with his wife Katie Boone.
Taylor Clagett has been enjoying married life with his longtime love Katie Boone for more than four years. (Source: Katie’s Facebook)
The pair exchanged the wedding vows on 16 March 2019 and have been inseparable since then. His wife holds jobs in sales and marketing.
Katie now serves as a Director of Sales at PepsiCo, an American multinational food company. A native of San Antonio, Texas, she graduated from
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Taylor and his wife have made a family of three. They shared a son named Jackson Clagett.
