Gary Walters
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Playing career | |
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1964–1967 | Princeton |
Position(s) | Union (NY) |
1973–1975 | Princeton (assistant) |
1975–1979 | Dartmouth |
1979–1981 | Providence |
Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
1994–2014 | Princeton |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 254–171 |
Gary D. Walters is an American former
College years
Walters played
Walters graduated in 1967.[2]
Career
In 1970, Walters became the youngest head basketball coach in NCAA history,[citation needed] when he took over the duties at Middlebury College. He then spent three years as head coach at Union College, before returning to Princeton as Pete Carril's assistant coach in 1973, where he helped coach the Tigers to the 1975 NIT championship.
Walters also served as head coach at both Dartmouth College[3] (and named New England Coach of the Year in 1976) and Providence College. In 1980 Walters was selected to coach at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He also served as a color analyst on Big East men's basketball telecasts in the 1980s and 1990s.
Walters joined
From June 1994 through August 2014, Walters was the director of athletics at Princeton, his alma mater. He was succeeded by another Princeton alum, Mollie Marcoux (Class of '91). [4]
Princeton had four national champions during the 2012–13 school year. The Princeton field hockey and fencing teams won NCAA Championships, while the men's distance medley relay and épée fencer Eliza Stone claimed individual crowns. A year earlier, the Tigers produced three national champions in 2011-12 (the men's squash team, épée fencer Jonathan Yergler and steeplechase runner Donn Cabral).[5] Princeton also had 17 Olympians who won a total of seven medals at the 2012 Summer Games in London, for a total that would have ranked 31st had Princeton been a country.[6]
Walters has seen six members of his administrative staff become collegiate Directors of Athletics or Division I conference commissioners; most recently Michael Cross was appointed AD at Bradley in January 2010. Others include Jamie Zaninovich (Commissioner, West Coast Conference), Jim Fiore (former AD, Stony Brook), George Vander Zwaag (AD, Rochester) and Jim McLaughlin (AD, Union).
Princeton won 214 Ivy League championships and 48 national championships under Walters tenure as athletic director.[2]
Facilities renovation
In addition to on-field success in
Recognition
Princeton finished in the Top 25 in the NACDA Directors’ Cup in 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2002, making Princeton the only non-scholarship school ever to do so. Princeton has been the highest-finishing non-scholarship school every year but one in the history of the Directors’ Cup. Led by four NCAA tournament teams and two Final Four teams, Princeton reached as high as No. 2 in the fall 2009 rankings. Following Princeton's 2012 national championship in field hockey and strong finishes in men's and women's cross country, Princeton topped the Director's Cup standings in the Fall of 2012 before finishing 33rd in the final standings and was the only FCS school in the Top 50.[7]
Walters was appointed to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee in 2002 and was elected chair of the committee for the 2006–07 season. [8]
Princeton University has twice honored Walters in recent years. In 2007, he received the Princeton Varsity Club Award of Merit and in 2012 the Princeton Class of 1967 recognized his 18 years of loyal and distinguished service to the university by presenting him with the Class's Loyal Service Award.
References
- ^ "Gary Walters, Point Guard". Sportsillustrated.cnn.com. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ a b "Princeton University Athletics Director Gary Walters plans to step down after 20 years at end of academic year". Nj.com. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Marcoux named Princeton's director of athletics". Princeton.edu. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ Princeton Athletic Communications (June 3, 2013). "National Champions". Princeton University. Retrieved 2014-08-28.
- ^ "Princeton Athletes Complete Overwhelmingly Successful Olympic Games - Princeton University". Princeton University. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "Princeton Leads the First Set of Division I Learfield Sports : Directors' Cup (LSDC) Standings" (PDF). Grfx.cstv.com. Retrieved 11 April 2018.
- ^ "College Basketball: Whatever they do, they can't win". The New York Times. 8 March 2007. Retrieved 11 April 2018.