Personal: Tonia Walker serves as the Rams' Associate Director of Athletics, and as the Senior Woman's Administrator. She has been a member of the WSSU Athletic staff since August of 2000. She resigned her duties as WSSU's head volleyball coach in 2002 to focus on her duties as an administrator. She is charged with internal operations of the department and has been instrumental in fund raising efforts, the implementation of CHAMPS Lifeskills programming, SAAC initiatives and new opportunities and exposure for athletic staff and student-athletes.

Walker has been a key figure in the university's transition from NCAA Division II to Division I (I-AA for football) status. She brings to the University a wealth of knowledge of intercollegiate athletics, coming from the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) headquarters office where she began her career in 1993. Named the 2003-04 and 2005-06 CIAA Senior Woman Administrator of the Year, Tonia was one of eight participants around the country selected for the NCAA Fellows Leadership Development Program. The extensive 18-month program from which Walker graduated in May of 2006 serves to enhance the employment and leadership opportunities for minorities and women at the senior management level of intercollegiate athletics administration.

She is currently a member of the Atlantic Volleyball Regional Ranking Committee, the Region 3 NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Committee and the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators (NACWAA). She is a 2004 graduate of the NACWAA/HERS Institute, and 2005 NACWAA Executive Institute - both serving to enhance opportunities for women to move into positions as Athletics Directors or Conference Commissioners. She has served on numerous committees both nationally and for the university.

Tonia attended Hampton University as a two sport athlete, playing basketball and softball. In December of 1993 she graduated with honors, receiving a B.A. degree in Speech and Language Disorders from the University and went on to attain a M.S. in Sports Management from Old Dominion University in 1998. She looks to pursue her Ph.D. in the very near future as well as continuing to help lead the WSSU Department of Athletics to greater heights. Tonia is married to Wayne Walker, Sr. of Petersburg, VA, former Hampton University football player. Together they have two children, Daijah and Wayne, Jr.