LORMAN, Miss. – This summer, Alcorn State Athletics will unveil its Flashback Friday feature to usher in the offseason and get us ready for the fall seasons come early September. Flashback Friday is a look back into past performances from Brave student athletes and coaches along with championship spotlights. Each Friday over the summer, we will have a different feature release.
This week we continue our series with a feature on our former head women's basketball coach, Shirley Walker. Coach Walker, a graduate of Alcorn State and a native of Bude, MS., began her career at ASU in 1983-84. She coached until 2005 and won 493 games, the most by a women's coach in the SWAC, with eleven SWAC regular season championships and six SWAC tournament championships. She holds the record for the latter two as well.
Walker coached teams made three NCAA appearances and she also served on several NCAA committee's including the Minority Opportunity and Interest Committee and NCAA Basketball Official Committee. Walker also belonged to the Black Coaches Association and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
The 2010 SWAC Hall of Fame Inductee credited all her wins and championships to the players, her assistant coaches, and others, stating that without them she would not have been inducted.
In 2014, Walker was honored with the SWAC Alumni Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the conference's athletic heritage.
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