Education
He attended high school at Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington, where he excelled in swimming.
He attended high school at Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington, where he excelled in swimming.
The summer after his senior year, he swam for Turkey in the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 2000, Taner married another internationally recognized swimmer, Liesl Kolbisen, and began to work at her family’s swim school, Louisiana Petite Baleen. Since January 2006, Taner has been playing guitar with the Matt Nightingale Band.