Theresa Walton

Biography

Theresa Walton enters her fourth season as lacrosse head coach at Old Dominion. In Walton's first season as the Monarchs head coach she led the team to a 4-13 record. Her first with for ODU came in the opening game when they defeated Elon 12-11, that opening day win was the first for Old Dominion since 2018. Walton had one member named to the AAC 2nd team All Conference team which was defender Katie McGrain. Walton comes to ODU after serving as the head coach at Youngstown State. She led the Penguins from inception to conference champions in just two years of existence. In just her second season as a Division I head coach she was named the Mid-American Conference Coach of the Year. In 2022, YSU won a share of the Mid-American Conference title with an 8-2 league mark. In the middle of the standings as April began, the Penguins got on a roll winning their final five contests to tie Robert Morris and Central Michigan atop the MAC standings. In its final five regular-season games, the Penguins won four road contests, including wins at CMU and RMU for the program's first win against those two-MAC powers. At Robert Morris on the final day of the regular-season, the Penguins rallied from a four-goal deficit to stun the Colonials. YSU was picked to finish fifth in the six-team conference in the preseason polls. Freshman Natalie Calandra-Ryan led a major offensive turnaround as she was named the MAC's Freshman of the Year. Calandra-Ryan scored a conference record 68 goals in earning f