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As an All-American placekicker In college and later for the Spokane Shock, Taylor Rowan had a knack for covering long distances with a single boot.
As the owner of Taylor'd Containers, Rowan now closes a different kind of gap for a growing customer base by providing smart and innovative solutions.
Rowan made his mark at Western Illinois University as a fouryear starter and holder of numerous school records, including a 56-yard field goal. After graduating in 2009, the Florida native began a professional football journey that would take him to three leagues - the AF2, UFL, and AFL. In 2010, he was part of the Shock's Arena Bowl XXIII championship.
Rowan earned a degree in construction management at Western Illinois but never anticipated launching a company after football that would specialize in custom-made storage containers.
"I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur in something," he said.
Before starting Taylor'd Containers in 2017, Rowan had heard about storage containers being used in the construction of homes, even studying the approach as part of a college project on non-traditional building materials. In 2015, while working for his father-in-law at Frencken America Inc., a manufacturing company in Liberty...