Block Yeshiva High School has hired Spencer Taylor as the school’s new boys basketball head coach. Taylor has served as an assistant coach at the high school level for seven seasons, including 2007-08 and 2008-09 when he helped guide Maplewood-Richmond Heights to back-to-back state titles. Taylor also serves as Director of Player Development at the W.I.T.T.S. Basketball Training Academy. This past summer, he coached an eighth grade level team to the title of a 77-team national tournament.

The school’s basketball team, the Blockbusters, comes off a relatively successful 2012-13 season, but lost 6’3” Alex Peskin, and his 20+ points per game, who graduated in May. The team has been invited for the first time in four years to participate in the 23rd Annual Yeshiva University Red Sarachek Basketball Tournament, a prestigious 20-team tournament for Jewish schools held in New York City. 

The team’s games for November include (* denotes a home game, played at  The Yetra and Israel Goldberg Gymnasium and Auditorium, 1138 N. Warson Road):

• Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Liberty Christian

• Nov. 19 at 6:45 p.m. vs. Logos*

• Nov. 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Patriots (home school team, takes place at Parkway South Middle School)

• Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. vs. Marquand-Zion*

The schedule is subject to change. The up-to-date schedule can be found at blockyeshiva.org/activities.shtml.