2009 Football
Roster
Brandon Jackson
- Height:
- 6-0
- Weight:
- 205
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Orlando, Fla.
Fast, smooth running back ... Is perhaps the team’s mostathletically gifted player, regardless of position ... Has limitedexperience with organized football, logging just 21 total games inhis lifetime on the gridiron ... Has proven to be a precociouslearner ... Developed into a reliable receiver out of the backfieldduring spring practice ... Will compete for the Bulldogs’starting spot in August ... Has All-Conference potential as arunning back and kick returner ... Two-sport performer who alsoplays point guard on the GWU men’s basketball team.
2007 Spring Game (3/31): Carried twice for sixyards ... Had no time off between basketball season and springfootball, joining the gridiron Bulldogs for the first practice theday after GWU was eliminated from its conference tournament.
2006 at Gardner-Webb: Played in all 11 games ...Rushed 34 times for 193 yards and a touchdown ... Named Big SouthConference Freshman of the Week after a breakout effort atJacksonville (9/2) ... Rushed for 108 yards and a 36-yard touchdownon just seven carries ... Had five carries for a team-high 46yards, and caught a 12-yard touchdown pass at UT-Martin (9/16) ...Rushed for 25 yards on nine carries vs. No. 2 Appalachian State(9/23) ... Did not record a carry in the season’s final fivegames after taking over full-time kickoff return duties ...Returned six kickoffs for 166 yards for a team-best average of 27.7yards per return ... Averaged 5.7 yards per rush on the season.
2006-2007 GWU Basketball: Played in 18 games asthe Bulldogs’ top reserve at point guard ... Averaged 0.9points and 0.2 rebounds per game ... Saw playing time increaseconsiderably late in the season ... Scored a season-high fivepoints in a win over North Florida (1/27) ... Logged a season-high16 minutes at NCAA participant Belmont (2/15) ... Scored fourpoints and dished off a season-high three assists in thatouting.
High School: Played at Pine Castle Christian(Fla.) High under Coach David Langdon ... A Class 1A All-Stateselection as a running back ... Rushed for more than 1,000 yards inhis lone season of prep football, averaging better than 16.0 yardsper carry ... A two-time All-State selection in basketball underCoach Mark Rickman ... Averaged 9.3 points, 5.7 reboiunds and 2.1steals per game as a senior ... Recruited by Duke, Liberty andIllinois State in football.
