Hilee Taylor would have gone anywhere to pursue a career in the sport that long ago became his life's passion. But truth be told, he didn't want to leave North Carolina, the state in which he was born and raised and the place where his parents, Hilee and Grace, nurtured his dreams from his elementary-school years, when he fell in love with the sport that would consume him and, by his own admission, keep him "on the straight path." (Panthers.com)