Stockton University Athletics

Updated 8/18/25

Allison Walker is in her 20th year as the Stockton head volleyball coach. Walker boasts a 455-173 record and a .725 winning percentage that rank 38th and 20th respectively among active NCAA Division III coaches. Walker’s teams have won 11 NJAC championships, and she has led Stockton to 10 NCAA Tournament berths and five of the program’s six NCAA postseason victories.

Last season, the Ospreys went 22-8, reaching the 20-win mark for the 16th time under Walker, and reached their second straight NJAC championship match. Stockton posted a 21-11 mark and finished first in the NJAC standings in 2023. Walker and her staff were voted NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year, the eighth time that she has been recognized with the conference’s coaching award. The Ospreys posted a 20-9 mark in 2022 and Walker collected her 400th career win with a sweep of Montclair State on September 27, 2022.

After a 16-win campaign in 2021, Stockton went 7-0 and won the NJAC championship in a COVID-shortened Spring 2021 season. Walker received her second consecutive NJAC Coach of the Year award. Stockton went 31-4 and reclaimed the NJAC championship in 2019. The Ospreys reeled off a 23-match winning streak, advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament and came within one victory of the school record for wins. Walker was recognized with her sixth NJAC Coach of the Year award.

Walker’s squad recorded a 26-8 mark in 2018, on the heels of a 23-11 record in 2017. She earned her 300th win with a sweep of Franklin & Marshall on September 30, 2017. Walker helmed her squad to 21 wins in 2016 following an historic 2015 season. The 2015 campaign saw the Ospreys win their eighth consecutive NJAC title, tie the school record of 32 wins and both host NCAA Tournament play and advance to the third round of the NCAA tourney for the first time ever. Walker led Stockton to a dramatic 3-2 upset of 16th-ranked Eastern University in the NCAA second round. She received her fifth NJAC Coach of the Year award for her efforts.

Walker steered Stockton to a 28-7 mark plus its seventh straight NJAC championship and NCAA trip in 2014. A year earlier, the Ospreys produced their highest win total since 1996 with 31 victories, including 26 straight, and won their NCAA Tournament first round match for the second year in a row after capturing their sixth consecutive NJAC title. Walker recorded her 200th career win with a sweep of Rutgers-Newark on October 17, 2013 and received her fourth NJAC Coach of the Year award after the season.

In 2012, Stockton set a league record with its fifth straight crown and took a step further with a win in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000. Walker was rewarded with the AVCA New York Region Coach of the Year honor. In 2011, her troops extended their streak of NJAC championships and NCAA Tournament berths to four and Walker was voted NJAC Coach of the Year for the third time. 

The Ospreys procured their third consecutive NJAC title and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2010. Walker earned her 100th career victory with a sweep of Ursinus on September 3, 2010. In 2009, she led the Ospreys to a 27-12 record and a second consecutive NJAC championship. Stockton went 29-9 in 2008 and gave Walker her second league title and NCAA Tournament berth. She later was chosen NJAC Coach of the Year.

Walker took the reins of the Stockton program in 2006 and led the Ospreys to the NJAC championship and an NCAA Tournament berth in her first season as a college coach. Stockton finished the successful campaign with a 26-9 record and Walker was named the NJAC Coach of the Year. In 2007, Stockton retooled with seven newcomers, including six freshmen, and went 17-18 overall.  

Before coming to Stockton, Walker served as an assistant coach at Winslow Township High School in 2005 and also spent two seasons as an assistant at Hawthorne High School. 

Walker was an accomplished player at Muhlenberg College, where she broke eight school records and finished her career with over 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs. Walker was a two-time All-Centennial Conference selection (1999 First Team, 1998 Second Team). She later was elected to the Muhlenberg Athletic Hall of Fame. Walker graduated from Muhlenberg in 2000 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and then earned a Master of Social Work diploma from Rutgers University.