University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s basketball coach Wes Moore was counting on signee Taylor Hall to give the departure-depleted Lady Mocs some help in the post this season.
Instead, the 6-foot-1 Hall, the Tennessee Class AAA player of the year last season, has opted not to attend UTC or continue her basketball career.
“I’ve played year-round since I was probably 8, and I just kind of got tired of it,” said Hall, who now is living in Kentucky and enrolled at a community college.
Moore said Hall had spoken to him several times over the summer, expressing her doubts about playing in college, so the decision wasn’t a surprise.
“She told me she’d felt kind of burned out since her junior year [at Morristown West High School],” said Moore, who has directed the Lady Mocs to 11 straight Southern Conference regular-season titles.