Ieasia Walker enters her first season as an assistant coach and director of sport performance for the Governors women's basketball program after joining Brittany Young's staff in August 2024.
Walker joins the Govs after being an assistant coach and strength and conditioning coach at Tuskegee. She served as a guard skills development coach planning practices, leading film sessions, conducting scouting reports, and coordinating game day activities. While working with women’s basketball, Walker organized travel itineraries and practices while also organizing student-athlete mental health check ins and academic checks. While with the Golden Tigers, Walker worked as the strength and conditioning coach for women’s basketball, volleyball, and tennis and organized workout sessions and guided student-athletes in the areas of nutrition, recovery, and injury prevention. In addition to her coaching, Walker managed social media for the women’s basketball program and the sports performance programs.Â
Prior to her time at Tuskegee, Walker was a strength and conditioning intern for Auburn where she planned and implemented team lifts for the Tigers cheer team and assisted coaching lifts for women’s basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, and swimming and diving. Before Auburn, she interned with strength and conditioning at Howard, where she assisted in football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and volleyball training. There, she created movement video tutorials to promote proper form to student-athletes.
From 2016-2019, Walker worked for the NBA in the Referee Development Program where she collaborated and facilitated video analysis of personal, G-League, WNBA, and NBA officiated games. She also collected and presented data on play calling for the NBA and G league. In addition to this, Walker assisted NBA referees, replay managers and technicians at the NBA replay center to identify actual and potential replay situations in real-time. Walker is a certified official as she has refereed pro-ams, women’s college basketball, and boy and girls high school games.Â
Walker earned her degree in business management from South Carolina in 2013 where she was a student-athlete on the women’s basketball team under head coach Dawn Staley. During her time at South Carolina, Walker was named the 2012-13 SEC Defensive Player of the Year and a three-time All-SEC Selection. She is one of three Gamecocks to achieve 1,000 career points, 250 career assists, and 250 career steals. Walker went on to play professionally overseas as she competed in China, Spain, Sweden, and Puerto Rico from 2014-2016.
