Three athletes from KCHS sign with universities in December

By Dan McWilliams

Knoxville Catholic High School hosted its second “National Signing Day” event of the 2022-23 school year Dec. 21 in the St. Gregory the Great Auditorium as three standout student-athletes signed with universities.

Held on the football early signing day, the event saw Fighting Irish place kicker Brock Taylor sign with Vanderbilt University and defensive lineman Trevor Duncan sign with the University of Tennessee. Volleyball outside hitter Blair Cherry signed with Carson-Newman University.

Brock is one of the state’s top kickers and had committed to Vanderbilt earlier in the year.

“It feels really good,” he said of his decision. “Today’s kind of like a surreal day, just making everything official, and I can’t wait to get to Nashville in the spring.”

He explained his choice of the Commodores’ program.

“The coaching staff is the best I’ve ever seen,” he said. “Coach [Justin] Lustig, the special teams coordinator, is like a GOAT [greatest of all time] in the special teams game. The whole staff is turning the whole program around in the right direction. It’s somewhere I wanted to be. Everything they said, they