Ellen Walker has been with the Colorado College Diving Program since 1994. Under her direction, Tiger divers have achieved over 30 top-three championship finishes, including four championships, and three NCAA qualifiers.
Walker joined the Colorado College staff after stints with the University of St. Thomas, Macalaster College and Carleton College, as well as with the Northfield Diving Club, where she coached three NCAA All Americans. As a collegiate athlete, she received all-conference recognition in both diving and softball.
Colorado College Alumni Diver, Joseph Shaner, states “the team aspect with the Colorado College Swimming and Diving Program is amazing, athletes come back year after year to be part of this great team.”
“I think Colorado College offers the perfect combination of diving training for the liberal arts student. It is a serious program, with practice that will challenge you and improve your diving, but at the same time it is clearly understood that you are at the college to go to school.” Colorado College Alumni Alyssa Gehman.
Walker is a native of Shakopee, Minnesota, where she excelled in diving, softball, basketball and gymnastics. She was inducted, as a member of the inaugural class, into the Shakopee High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998.
Walker graduated from the University of St. Thomas with a degree in sociology. She has a distinguished career working for the State of Colorado in the field of criminal justice.
