Walt Hopkins
Walt Hopkins is an American 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.
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 2013–2014. He joined the Minnesota Lynx as assistant coach in 2017, when the Lynx won the championship.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. The Liberty have the first pick in the 2020 WNBA draft, when they are expected to choose Sabrina Ionescu of Oregon.
