Alumni Gerard Wilcher begins his first year as head football coach of the Maroon Tigers football team.
The former Rice University defensive backs coach began his coaching career at Morehouse over 30 years ago and now brings a breadth of experience to his home team, including his time as co-defensive coordinator at Lehigh University, where he won four Patriot League Championships and had three NCAA Playoff Appearances during his ten-year tenure.
Wilcher has also worked with the Denver Broncos, Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals, and Philadelphia Eagles. Collegiately, he has also coached at Delaware State University, Seton Hill University, Cornell University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (where he won the 1998 FCS National Championship), Boston College, and Cheyney University.
A four-year football letter winner at Morehouse College football team, Wilcher earned a Bachelor's in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the school in 1992.
In May of 2019, he was honored by the City Council of Missouri City, Texas with an Award of Exemplary Action for his role in rescuing a young boy from drowning at a local swimming pool in the summer of 2018.
Wilcher and wife Ayanna are parents to three children. A son, Xavier, a graduate from Delaware State who works for Deloitte, and daughters Jalen, who also graduated from Delaware State and works for MD Anderson, and Jehlani, who is a junior at Sam Houston St University and a member of the Air Force Reserves.
