Raytown Alumni Receive Athletic Honor

Raytown South High graduate Marquise Cushon and Raytown High graduate LaVance Taylor recently earned Daktronics National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II All-American Second Team honors.

Cushon is a junior wide receiver at Pittsburg State University and led the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) in receiving yards, averaging 100.1 yards per game. He was a first-team All-MIAA and first-team All-Super Region Three selection. Cushon is also an All-America track & field athlete.

Taylor is a senior running back at the University of Central Missouri (UCM).  Taylor led the MIAA and was third in the NCAA Division II with a single-season record of 1,918 rushing yard.  He set UCM’s single-season all-purpose yardage record with 2,618 yards, and he set a new UCM career all-purpose yardage record with 6,231 yards.  Taylor was also a First Team All-MIAA and First Team All-Region selection.