Women's Basketball
Walden, Courtney
Courtney Walden
- Title:
- Strength & Conditioning Coach
- Email:
- cwalden@uoregon.edu
Courtney Walden joined the University of Oregon athletic department prior to the 2019-20 academic year and serves as the strength and conditioning coach for women's basketball and softball.
The Ducks thrived in the first year under Walden's training regime, with the women's basketball team sweeping the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament championships and the softball team getting out to a 22-2 record before the sports world was shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the summer of 2020, Walden took a leading role in Oregon's "Keep it 100" initiative to raise awareness and participation in the November 2020 election. Working closely with Oregon's men's basketball assistant Mike Mennenga, Walden assisted in ensuring that 100 percent of Oregon student-athletes who were eligible to vote were registered to vote. With the initial step complete, Walden and Mennenga moved on to the next steps of the "Keep it 100" campaign - ensuring 100 percent participation in the election, and holding a contest among student-athletes to encourage others to register to vote.
The genesis for "Keep It 100" stemmed from Coaches 4 Change, a national organization founded in the wake of the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minnesota. Mennenga and Walden had both participated with Coaches 4 Change independent of each other, and they decided to bring that national conversation home to Eugene.
Walden came to Oregon after spending two years as the men's basketball and women's volleyball sport performance coach at Army West Point.
Walden received her bachelor's degree in Kinesiology - Exercise Movement Science in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin, where she was an NCAA Track and Field Championships qualifier in the pole vault. She then went on to earn her Master's degree in Exercise Science - Sport Science and Nutrition from the University of Texas in 2017. Walden worked as a strength and conditioning or performance graduate intern at both Wisconsin and Texas.
The Ducks thrived in the first year under Walden's training regime, with the women's basketball team sweeping the Pac-12 regular-season and tournament championships and the softball team getting out to a 22-2 record before the sports world was shut down by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the summer of 2020, Walden took a leading role in Oregon's "Keep it 100" initiative to raise awareness and participation in the November 2020 election. Working closely with Oregon's men's basketball assistant Mike Mennenga, Walden assisted in ensuring that 100 percent of Oregon student-athletes who were eligible to vote were registered to vote. With the initial step complete, Walden and Mennenga moved on to the next steps of the "Keep it 100" campaign - ensuring 100 percent participation in the election, and holding a contest among student-athletes to encourage others to register to vote.
The genesis for "Keep It 100" stemmed from Coaches 4 Change, a national organization founded in the wake of the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer in Minnesota. Mennenga and Walden had both participated with Coaches 4 Change independent of each other, and they decided to bring that national conversation home to Eugene.
Walden came to Oregon after spending two years as the men's basketball and women's volleyball sport performance coach at Army West Point.
Walden received her bachelor's degree in Kinesiology - Exercise Movement Science in 2015 from the University of Wisconsin, where she was an NCAA Track and Field Championships qualifier in the pole vault. She then went on to earn her Master's degree in Exercise Science - Sport Science and Nutrition from the University of Texas in 2017. Walden worked as a strength and conditioning or performance graduate intern at both Wisconsin and Texas.
Kelly Graves | Selection Sunday
Monday, March 17
Deja Kelly, Peyton Scott & Phillipina Kyei | Selection Sunday
Monday, March 17
Peyton Scott & Ari Long: "A good, competitive basketball game."
Thursday, February 27
Kelly Graves: "We've played really well."
Thursday, February 27
