Walt Hopkins

Walt Hopkins
	2022 as national coach in Germany
Personal information
Born	July 30, 1985 (age 39)
Nationality	American
Career information
High school	Edward C. Reed High School (Sparks,NV)
College	University of Nevada; Harvard University; University of California, Berkeley
Career history
As coach:
2017–2019	Minnesota Lynx (assistant)
2020–2021	New York Liberty
Career highlights and awards
	As assistant coach: WNBA champion (2017);

Walt Hopkins is an American former basketball head coach for the New York Liberty of the WNBA.

Education and early career

Hopkins earned a B.A. in English writing from the University of Nevada. He then earned master's degrees from Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.^[1]

At Berkeley, he worked as an academic coach and tutor for the school's athletes. In 2013 he was a player development coach for the Tulsa Shock of the WNBA. He was an assistant women's basketball coach at Utah Valley University from 2013 to 2014. He joined the Minnesota Lynx as assistant coach in 2017,^[1] when the Lynx won the championship.^[2]

Later career

In 2020 under new owner Joseph Tsai, Hopkins replaced Katie Smith as the Liberty's head coach. The team will play in Tsai's Barclays Center in Brooklyn.^[3] In September 2020, he was appointed as head coach of the German women's national team.^[4] On December 6, 2021, Hopkins was fired as head coach of the New York Liberty. In 2023, he guided the German national team to its first Eurobasket berth since twelve years. Afterwards he stepped down for personal reasons.^[5]

Coaching record

Legend
Regular season	G	Games coached	W	Games won	L	Games lost	W–L %	Win–loss %
Playoffs	PG	Playoff games	PW	Playoff wins	PL	Playoff losses	PW–L %	Playoff win–loss %


Team	Year	G	W	L	W–L%	Finish	PG	PL	PW–L%	Result
NYL	2020	22	2	20	.091	6th in East	0	0	–	Missed Playoffs
NYL	2021	32	12	20	.375	3rd in East	1	1	.000	Lost in First Round
Career		54	14	40	.259		1	1	.000

Notes

^ ^a ^b "Walt Hopkins". NBA Media Ventures. Retrieved April 25, 2019.
^ "Joe Tsai hires Walt Hopkins of Minnesota Lynx to coach New York Liberty". SB Nation. January 6, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2020 – via MSN.
^ Powell, Jackie (January 6, 2020). "Walt Hopkins named new head coach in New York". High Post Hoops (Fansided). Retrieved January 7, 2020.
^ "Walt Hopkins neuer Damen-Bundestrainer « Deutscher Basketball Bund". Retrieved 2020-09-16.
^ "Lisa Thomaidis ist neue Damen-Bundestrainerin". Deutscher Basketball-Bund (in German). 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2023-04-25.

External links

WNBA biography
Media related to Walt Hopkins at Wikimedia Commons

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[Lynx-bio-1] "Walt Hopkins". NBA Media Ventures. Retrieved April 25, 2019.

[2] "Joe Tsai hires Walt Hopkins of Minnesota Lynx to coach New York Liberty". SB Nation. January 6, 2020. Retrieved January 7, 2020 – via MSN.

[3] Powell, Jackie (January 6, 2020). "Walt Hopkins named new head coach in New York". High Post Hoops (Fansided). Retrieved January 7, 2020.

[4] "Walt Hopkins neuer Damen-Bundestrainer « Deutscher Basketball Bund". Retrieved 2020-09-16.

[5] "Lisa Thomaidis ist neue Damen-Bundestrainerin". Deutscher Basketball-Bund (in German). 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2023-04-25.

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