Kanler Coker Awarded UNC Basketball Scholarship

Posted Sep 15, 2016
Kanler Coker's Tar Heel journey will conclude this season on scholarship. He has been given a basketball scholarship for the 2016-17 season. Coker's UNC career began at quarterback, as part of Larry Fedora's first recruiting class in Chapel Hill. Coker played two years with the football team until an elbow injury ended his football career, but not his athletic career. (Inside Carolina)

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