Head Men's Basketball Coach Jim Walker
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- Email:
- walkerj@moravian.edu
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- Title:
- Retiring Head Men's Basketball Coach
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- Phone:
- 610-861-1531
Bio
Coach Jim Walker has served as head basketball coach since 1979. The winningest coach in Moravian College history with a 437-420 record heading into the 2014-15 season, Walker earned the 400th victory of his tenure at Moravian with a victory over DeSales University on November 22, 2011. Coach Walker has guided the Hounds to two NCAA Tournament bids, including one in 2007-08, ten conference playoff appearances and six of his teams have earned national rankings.
Coach Walker has also led the Greyhounds to a Commonwealth League title and was named the Commonwealth League Coach of the Year once. In 2007-08, coach Walker and his staff earned Landmark Conference Coaching Staff of the Year honors while leading Moravian to a runner-up finish in the conference and a berth in the NCAA Division III Tournament. Coach Walker led the 2012-13 Greyhounds to an ECAC South postseason appearance.
He also directs the Greyhound tennis and basketball camps in the summer, and directs an annual Fall Basketball Coaches Clinic at Moravian.
Walker was Moravian's men's tennis coach from 1979 until 2009, and his career includes the 1996 Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth League championship and several conference playoffs appearances including a berth in the 2009 Landmark Conference Championship match. He was a ranked player in the Middle States Tennis Association, and is a teaching member of the Professional Tennis Registry.
He served two stints as interim director of athletics for Moravian. Walker, who has a career basketball coaching mark of 451-432 over 35 years, earned a B.A. in history from Gettysburg College in 1965, where he played varsity basketball and tennis, and earned a master’s degree in education from Rider College.