Phillip Wilkerson Assistant Athletic Trainer Contact Info. Phone: 479-968-0642 E-Mail: pwilkerson1@atu.edu

Phillip Wilkerson is entering his first season at Arkansas Tech University as an assistant athletic trainer. In his duties at Tech, Wilkerson serves as an assistant athletic trainer for football, along with being the athletic trainer for the Wonder Boys baseball program and also helps out with both the men's and women's basketball teams.

Wilkerson, who is a native of Monroe City, Mo., comes to Tech after spending last year with the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, where he served as the seasonal assistant athletic trainer. Wilkerson had spent two other stints with the Kansas City Chiefs as a summer athletic training intern.

Prior to working with the Kansas City Chiefs, Wilkerson spent three years (2003-06) as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at Marshall University in Huntington, W.V., were he earned a Master of Arts in Teaching, with an emphasis in K-12 physical education and a Master of Science in health and physical education. While with the Thundering Herd, Wilkerson worked with the school's football team, men's soccer team, women's soccer team, women's indoor track and field team and women's volleyball team. His duties included treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, along with normal daily and game day responsibilities of an NCAA Division I athletic training room.

Wilkerson became a certified member of the National Athletic Trainer' Association after graduating from the University of Missouri with a bachelor of science degree in human nutrition and fitness in 2003. While at the University of Missouri, Wilkerson served as a student athletic trainer, working with the football, wrestling, men's and women's cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field, men's basketball and women's soccer teams.