GREENSBORO, N.C. – The Guilford College Athletics Department welcomes Derrick Walker as the first-ever head coach of the Quakers Women's Flag Football program, the department announced on Monday afternoon.

"I am very pleased to welcome Derrick Walker to Guilford Athletics as our inaugural Head Coach for Women's Flag Football, Director of Athletics, Bill Foti said. "Coach Walker is well known and deeply immersed in the high school and club Flag Football scene both in North Carolina and the greater Southeast region. These contacts should prove invaluable as he recruits our first recruiting class of Flag Football players to Guilford."

"I am excited and incredibly honored to join Guilford College Athletics as the first Women's Flag Football Head Coach in school history," Walker said. "I want to thank Athletic Director Bill Foti and his search committee for believing in me and giving me the opportunity to build something special here at Guilford College. I am looking forward to getting into the building and getting to work, bringing in talented student-athletes, and establishing a fast, competitive, and championship culture, and creating a team that represents Guilford College with pride. This is a historic moment for Guilford College, and I am ready to lay the foundation for a program that our campus, community, and fans can rally behind and be excited about. Go Quakers!"

Walker comes out of the high school circuit, where he was a head coach at both Millbrook High School and the Carolina United Flag Football Club for the past two years. Launching and growing the girls flag football team for the Millbrook Wildcats, they went 19-22 in the program's first three seasons of play and earning a pair of postseason berths. Meanwhile, on the club side with Carolina United, Walker experienced the other side of recruiting, seeing his players move on to play collegiate flag football, while on the field, he led his teams to four Tournament Championships during his tenure with them.

Making the jump to flag football in 2024, Walker previously had five years of high school coaching experience in tackle football at a handful of stops. Ahead of taking over the flag football program with the Wildcats, he was the head coach of Millbrook's JV team and oversaw the varsity squads Wide Receivers group, feeding his players into contributing roles for a MHS program that has double-digit wins in three of the last four seasons, going 46-8 in that span and roared through 2025, going undefeated on their way to the North Carolina 8A State Championship Game, finishing as the state runner-up in their division. As a positional coach, he coached All-Conference selections Dakarai Bryant, who now is a sophomore playing at Lehigh, as well as University of North Carolina redshirt-sophomore Nathan Leacock. Prior to working with Millbrook, Walker was the Wide Receivers Coach for Conference Championship teams at both Knightdale High School and Wake Forest-Rolesville High School.

Walker has Certifications from USA Football and the NFHS for coaching. He graduated with a degree in Interior Design from Western Carolina University in 2006. He played one season with the Catamounts as a wide receiver in 2003.

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