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Welcome to the Tigers Family: Tyler Walker

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Tyler Walker has joined the Leicester Tigers Wheelchair Rugby team ahead of the 2024/25 season.

The Great Britain international joins Tigers from Cheltenham Tigers, where he competed in League 2, against the Leicester Tigers Swifts.

The 20-year-old is a prodigious talent in the sport, having first been introduced to it at 14 years old and only beginning to compete less than 18 months ago, before being drafted to a talent squad by Great Britain after just three months.

The Gloucester native recently his debut for the full senior GB team, flying out to Canada in June to compete at the Canada Cup, the squad's final preparations before the upcoming 2024 Paris Paralympics.

Walker will link up with his new Leicester teammates after the Paralympics in Paris.