Aaron Kanner enters his first season as kicking coach for the Mercer University football program in 2013. He will be working specifically with the kickers, punters and holders.

 

Kanner has coaching experience at a pair of local high schools as he was the kicking coach at Stratford Academy in 2009 and as the special teams coach, receivers coach and secondary coach at Monroe Academy in Forsyth.

 

An accomplished athlete, Kanner starred as a two-sport athlete in football and baseball at Catawba College. On the gridiron, Kanner was a two-time South Atlantic All-Conference First Team member, an NAIA All-American and a Football Gazette All-American.

 

Following his collegiate career, Kanner was signed by the Shreveport Pirates of the Canadian Football League in 1994 and averaged 42.6 yards per punt during his lone season with the Pirates.

 

Following a season with fellow CFL member Memphis Madogs, he received an invite to the Carolina Panthers training camp in 1996 and earned a spot on the practice squad. Kanner received invites to two more NFL training camps with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1997 and the Chicago Bears in 1998 before retiring from the game.

 

Kanner returned to school following his playing career and earned a bachelor’s of arts in recreation management with a minor in coaching from Catawba in 1998.