CARLA GILSON, MA, ATC, LAT, NASM-CES
cgilson@athletics.gatech.edu
404-894-1251
A member of Georgia Tech athletics staff for nearly 25 years, including as the Yellow Jackets’ director of sports medicine for the past four years, Carla Gilson was promoted to associate athletics director for sports medicine in 2022. She served in Georgia Tech’s sports medicine department until January 2024.
In her expanded role, Glison oversees the day-to-day functions of Georgia Tech’s sports medicine operations and staff, with a focus on the support and care of student-athletes’ physical, mental and overall health needs. She also serves as the primary athletic trainer for the Yellow Jackets’ nationally ranked volleyball program.
Gilson came to Georgia Tech at the beginning of the 1997-98 academic year as an assistant athletic trainer. She was promoted to associate athletic trainer in 2008, a role she held until she was promoted to director of sports medicine in 2018. During her quarter-decade on The Flats, she has served as an athletic trainer for the Yellow Jackets’ women’s basketball, football, softball, tennis, track and field, volleyball and spirit teams.
During her time on The Flats, Gilson co-founded Tech’s “Life Now, Life Later” mentor program for female African-American student-athletes and has served on the athletics department’s equity and compliance committee and as a member of the Yellow Jackets’ Fellowship of Christian Athletes mentor team. Additionally, she served as a panelist for Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference’s Women in Leadership workshop and as a featured presenter at the National Athletic Trainers Association’s Ethnic Diversity Advisory Committee meeting.
Prior to her arrival at Georgia Tech, Gilson served as a graduate assistant at East Tennessee State from 1995-97, where she was the primary athletic trainer for ETSU’s men’s and women’s track and field teams and earned a master’s degree in health and physical education/fitness leadership. She received a bachelor’s degree in management from Tulane in 1993.
