Tyler Sharpe

Position:
Guard
Height:
6-1
Weight:
185
Class:
Freshman
Hometown:
Mt. Washington, Ky.
High School:
Bullitt East HS

Walk-on guard averaged 19.5 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.5 assists as a senior in 2015-16 as Bullitt East High School in Mt. Washington, Ky., posted a 27-6 record and reached the regional finals.
Honored as the 2016 Sixth Region Player of the Year and a finalist for Kentucky’s Mr. Basketball.
The left-handed guard made 86 three-point goals his senior year with a 34.8 percent accuracy. He set the Bullitt East career three-point record with 243. He made 86.3 percent of his free throws as a senior (164-of-190), sixth-best in the state.
Scored 1,606 career points for the Chargers and finished third on Bullitt East’s all-time assists list.
Honors included second team Associated Press All-State as a senior, two-time all-region and he was an all-tournament selection for the King of the Bluegrass (2014), LIT (2015), Surf-N-Slam (2015), 24th District (2015) and 6th Region (2015).
Averaged 17.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.4 assists and 3.0 steals his junior year in leading Bullitt East to a 21-10 record; and 17.3 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists as a sophomore when Bullitt East posted a 26-8 record and reached the regional final.
Participated in the 2016 Kentucky Derby Festival Classic all-star game, played in Louisville’s Freedom Hall. He was a member of the 2016 Kentucky All-Stars, which competed in two games against a similar Indiana team.
Turned down scholarship offers from schools such as Pikeville, Kentucky State and IU Southeast before he chose to walk on to the Cardinals’ squad.

Personal:

Born Jan. 14, 1998 ... Son of Rena and Craig Sharpe ... Has one older sister (Kaleigh) ... Major is sport administration.
Personal goal at UofL is to win a national championship.
Best moment of his athletic career to date was when his 17U AAU Team Manimal was the 2015 national runner-up.
Enjoys playing video games, running and fishing in his spare time.
Chose to attend UofL because UofL “is close to home with a great family environment.”
Most proud of his dog.
His coach Ernest “June Bug” Rakes, an assistant coach at Bullitt East High School, has had the greatest influence on his athletic career.
Feels Jonah Hill would be the best actor to play him in a movie.
Few people know that he has Crohn’s Disease, a chronic inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract.
When he played basketball as a kid, he pretended he was LeBron James.
If you walked into his dorm room, the first thing you would notice is his snacks.
Best thing about being a Cardinal is the L1C4 (Louisville First, Cards Forever), a UofL athletics slogan and hastag.
What impresses him the most about Coach Pitino is “his knowledge of the game.”
Would most like to meet Damian Lillard.