2016 (Senior): IWLCA Academic Honor Roll ... Ended career tied for seventh on Yale''s career caused turnovers list with 50 ... Elected captain by her teammates ... Earned team''s Holgate Award, "given to the player whose dedication to the ideals of Yale and to the success of women''s lacrosse measure up to the standards set by James G. ''Gib'' Holgate, a member of the Yale athletic administration from 1954 to 1985" ...Tied for team lead in ground balls with 27, a career high ... Tied for seventh in Ivy League with 19 caused turnovers, a career high ... Had season-high three caused turnovers in 11-8 win vs. Marist Mar. 2 ... Had season-high five ground balls Apr. 16 at Dartmouth ... Started all 15 games, one of only four Bulldogs to do so ... Third straight season in which she started all 15 games.
2015 (Junior): IWLCA Academic Honor Roll ... Started all 15 games ... Posted career highs in caused turnovers (17) and ground balls (23) ... Also contributed 10 draw controls ... Had a season-high three caused turnovers twice, vs. Quinnipiac and vs. San Diego State ... Had a season-high three ground balls in three games, vs. Quinnipiac, vs. UMass and at Brown ... Had a season-high three draw controls twice, vs. San Diego State and at Harvard.
2014 (Sophomore): Appeared in all 15 games for the second straight year, starting 12.
2013 (Freshman): Started all 15 games ... 11 ground balls ... 10 draw controls.
High School: Three years of varsity lacrosse … Academic All American 2012 … Under Armour Underclassmen All-Star 2011 … Scholar Athlete Award 2008-2012 … Ranked No. 11 best defender nationally by ESPN Rise … ESPNHS Girls Top 25 Defense (No. 11) … ESPNHS Girls Top 100 Class of 2012 (No. 51) … Team finished season ranked in top 10 nationally by Lax Power … Also played four years of varsity volleyball … One year of varsity swimming.
Notes: Summer intern at NBC in Washington, D.C. ... Summer intern at The Today Show in New York City ... Works as a beat reporter at YTV, the broadcast journalism desk of the Yale Daily News ... Member of Kappa Alpha Theta, which hosts charity events to support CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), a charity that works to train volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities ... Participated in an Athletic Outreach Program at an inner city school in Baltimore teaching elementary school girls to play lacrosse … Participated in community service at the Maryland Food Bank … Member of high school’s Princeton Model Congress … Page editor of high school newspaper … Father, Chris Walker, played lacrosse at UNC where he was a three-time All-American, team captain, and member of the 1986 National Champion team … Cousin James Ahern played basketball for Yale … Uncle Jay played lacrosse at Towson University … Uncle Rob played lacrosse at Stony Brook University … Grandfather Robert played basketball at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Why Yale? “I chose Yale because it offers to its student-athletes both a first-class education and the opportunity to play as a varsity athlete in one of the most competitive conferences in the country. Here I will be able to make tremendous strides as a student and an athlete and I couldn’t think of a better or more important way to spend the next four years.”
