BOSSIER CITY, La. - Zayden Taylor -- a straight-A student at Parkway High School in Bossier City -- is also a linebacker on the junior varsity football team.
The 15-year-old sophomore, like thousands of students across the ArkLaTex, followed through with the football season during the coronavirus pandemic.
"Zayden is the healthiest kid I know. He did not have any health conditions," said his mother, Army Staff Sgt. Taricka Taylor, who is an active duty recruiter, was contacted in November by Bossier Parish Schools.
"I got a call from the school saying he had been exposed," Taricka Taylor said.
Zayden Taylor