Get to Know Christina Walker

Q&A with Our Director, Christina Walker

Virginia Wesleyan University Head Field Hockey Coach
Former Wake Forest University Assistant Coach

Do you have any nicknames?

Stivo

If you can eat only one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?

Sushi

What is the latest show, series, podcast or book that you binged on?

I watch the Amazing Race

What is the one or more things that you take with you or do every day before you greet the team at practice? This can be something tangible or non-tangible.

I always take my whistle and my notebook with practice planned in it, along with my stick

What purchase of $100 or less has positively influenced your life in the past 6 months or recent memory? 

My planner 🙂 I got it off of amazon and it helps keep me regulated on busy days

Do you have a quote, phrase or motto that you use on a daily basis or during tough times? or maybe something you think of often or live your life by.

“It is what it is”

What advice would you give a smart, driven 14 year old athlete about to enter high school and what advice should they ignore on the other hand?

I would say that have fun doing what you love. You can be competitive in things, but at the end of the day, you have to be able to laugh at yourself and/or the situation

In the last 5 years, do you have a specific season, game or competition that changed your life? What advice or realizations, do you have for people in the coaching field who are trying to achieve their team’s potential?

I don’t have a specific game that has changed my life, however I love going to practices and being around my players. At the end of the day, what you invest in your players, will have a positive outcome on their every day lives and that is more important than winning and losing games.

Is there a moment from your youth that set you up for career in coaching?

I used to coach Futures and camp when I was a player at the University of Maryland. That gave me a taste of the coaching world

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