Football Profile

Tyler GillkersonTyler Gilkerson

LB Fr., 5-9, 215, Huntersville, N.C.

Personal: Lettered two seasons with the football team at Southlake Christian Academy for coach Rich Landis... garnered All-North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association (NCISAA) recognition and played in the 2007 Oasis Shrine Bowl... registered a team-high 93 tackles and helped his squad to a share of the 2007 Carolina Piedmont Football Conference (CPFC) title... an all-conference baseball performer... participate in the Wendy’s Heisman Awards program... also considered Davidson College, Brown University, Washington and Lee University and Elon... father, Ron Gilkerson '84 played football for the Quakers... son of Ron and Tammy Gilkerson... sports medicine major.