Dominick Walker joined the UT Arlington strength and conditioning staff in the summer of 2018 and is responsible for men’s basketball.
Before his arrival at UTA, Walker was an apprentice strength and conditioning coach for the Philadelphia 76ers, assistant strength and conditioning coach for the University of Louisiana Lafayette where he was responsible for men’s basketball, women’s basketball, and track and field. During the 2017-18 season, the Sixers achieved an overall record of 52-30, which placed them 3rd in the Eastern Conference and broke a 6-year playoff drought. Prior to UL, he was the assistant director of basketball performance at Mississippi State University under renowned basketball strength and conditioning coach David Deets, and a sports performance intern at St. John’s University.
Walker spent two seasons as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach at Angelo State University, where he worked with men's and women's basketball along with women's golf. During his two-year stint, the Angelo State men’s basketball team achieve an overall record of 47-15 and was the Division 2 south central runner up (Sweet 16) during the 2014-15 season. He spent the summer of 2013 as an strength and conditioning intern with men’s basketball at the University of Texas under another renowned basketball strength and conditioning coach, Todd Wright, who’s now with the Los Angeles Clippers as the Assistant Coach and Vice President of Player Performance; worked in strength and conditioning at McMurry University, strength and conditioning intern with men’s basketball at Virginia Commonwealth University, and an athletic performance intern at Baylor University assisting with football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball.
A team captain and two-year letterwinner on the basketball team at McMurry, Walker programmed and implemented the team's strength and conditioning program and helped the War Hawks to 39 wins. He earned All-American Southwest Conference honorable-mention honors after finishing as the team's second-leading rebounder in 2011-12.
Walker has worked with many professional basketball players, including Ben Simmons, Joel Embiid, and JJ Reddick.
Walker earned an associate degree in General Studies from Lon Morris College in 2011, a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (kinesiology, psychology, and business) from McMurry in 2013, and a Master of Education in Coaching, Sport, Recreation and Fitness Administration from Angelo State in 2015.
He is a certified through the National Strength and Conditioning Association as a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS), the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a corrective exercise specialist (CES), the Gray Institute in Applied Functional Science (CAFS) and 3-Dimensional Movement Analysis and Performance Systems (3DMAPS), Functional Range Conditioning as a mobility specialist (FRCms), Functional Range Assessment (FRA), and Precision Nutrition (Pn1). He also holds First Aid and CPR/AED certifications from the Red Cross.
