Chris Walker
	Hometown: Houston, Texas High School: Milby Last College: Villanova University Position: Associate Head Coach Experience: First Season Alma Mater: Villanova University

Chris Walker is in his first season as associate head coach at Texas Tech University. Walker comes to Texas Tech after spending the past two seasons at his alma mater Villanova, where he was an assistant under Jay Wright.

With 16 years of collegiate coaching experience, Walker has been a part of eight postseason squads, including four NCAA Tournament teams. He has coached three NBA first round draft picks - Brandon Armstrong (Pepperdine), Michael Bradley (Villanova), J.R. Giddens (New Mexico) - and the first overall pick of the second round - Dan Langhi (Vanderbilt).

At Villanova, Walker was responsible for on-court teaching and development, recruiting and scouting, when the Wildcats went 46-20 with a pair of trips to the NCAA Tournament. He saw three Villanova players earn All-BIG East honors and one, Scottie Reynolds, was a consensus All-America selection.

Walker also served as an assistant under Wright for the 2010 USA Select Team. The USA Select Team consists of juniors and seniors out of the college ranks that are brought in to scrimmage against the USA National Team.

Walker spent two seasons at the University of New Mexico as an assistant for Steve Alford from 2007-09. He was instrumental in helping turnaround a team that finished eighth in a nine-team Mountain West Conference in 2007 to tying for the conference crown in 2009. Along the way, the Lobos recorded a 46-21 record and made a pair of NIT appearances during Alford's first two seasons at the helm.

In 2005, he became the Grassroots Director for the Southwest Region for Adidas America. During that time he served as head coach of the Tmac All Stars, a Houston-based AAU team. During his tenure as head coach (2005-07), Walker saw 20 of his players go on to play collegiately on scholarship.

Walker spent three seasons at the University of Massachusetts where he was an assistant under head coach Steve Lappas. He was on the Minutemen sidelines from 2001-05. That included a one-year hiatus from collegiate coaching during the 2003-04 season, when he was the President and CEO of Spearhead Sports LLC in his native Houston.

He spent the 2000-01 season on Lappas' staff at Villanova before accompanying Lappas to UMass. He was also the associate head coach at both Pepperdine (1999-00) and Vanderbilt (1996-99). He began his coaching career at Loyola Marymount in 1992.

After a stellar prep career at Houston Milby High School, Walker went on to Villanova in 1988 to play for head coach Rollie Massimino. As a player, Walker started 96 games at point guard and helped the Wildcats make two NCAA Tournament appearances and two NIT appearances. At the time of his graduation, his 404 career assists ranked seventh on the school's all-time list and his 185 career steals ranked fourth. He was twice chosen to the All-Philadelphia Big Five squad.

Born on Christmas Day, Walker graduated from Villanova in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications.