David Walls was promoted to Assistant Coach/Video and Scouting prior to the 2024-25 season, after previously as the Director of Scouting. Walls was a graduate assistant with the program prior to full-time promotion. Walls will enter his seventh season as a staff member with the Lady Toppers in 2025-26.
Walls helps the team with all video coordination needs, assisting with the break down of film, opponent scouting and analytics as well as any other requests.
The Lady Toppers got off to one of the best starts in program history, going 7-0 to begin 2024-25. It is tied as the second best start in WKU history and WKU was one of 15 programs left still undefeated at the time. That hot start set the way for the Lady Toppers, who finished the season 23-9 and 13-5 in Conference USA for a third place finish in the league. Three Lady Toppers were named to the All-CUSA Team with Alexis Mead earning First Team honors and Destiny Salary and Josie Gilvin earning Second Team.
The 2023-24 team may have been the best defensive team in the Greg Collins era at WKU. The Lady Toppers held teams to 63.5 points per game on the season which is the lowest average of his head coaching career. WKU won five of the their first six games to start the season, with the only loss coming at Vanderbilt (77-74). The Lady Toppers went through a bought of injuries and illnesses starting in January and struggled to have all players available for the rest of the season.
Alexis Mead finished the season with All-CUSA Second Team and CUSA All-Defensive Team honors.
The 2022-23 squad finished the season with 19 wins, earned second place in the CUSA regular season, played in the CUSA tournament championship game, and earned a WNIT berth. WKU broke multiple school records in 2022-23, topping the program high with 389 steals on the season and making 289 3-point shots for the year. The Lady Toppers also broke the single-game record for made 3-pointers, connecting on 16 threes at Middle Tennessee on Feb. 9. WKU finished the season ranked in the top 25 in the nation in six different statistical categories: third in 3-point attempts per game (28.8), sixth in bench points per game (29.0), seventh in steals per game (11.8), 13th in turnovers forced per game (20.3), 14th in 3-pointers made per game (8.8) and 18th in turnover margin (5.30 differential).
Acacia Hayes had an impressive debut season for the Lady Toppers, leading the team in scoring, averaging 11.2 points per game. She’s the first WKU freshman to lead the team in scoring since Crystal Kelly in 2004-05. Hayes was named to the CUSA All-Freshmen team and to the CUSA All-Tournament Team.
The young Lady Topper 2021-22 squad featured just one upperclassman in Meral Abdelgawad to go along with five sophomores and six freshmen. Despite the youth, WKU reached 18 wins and finished fourth in the CUSA East division. WKU’s five true freshmen scored 52.3 percent of the team’s points, averaging 36.9 points per game. After starting the season 1-3, the Lady Toppers regrouped to rattle off 13 wins in the next 14 games that included a 7-0 start to CUSA play.
Mya Meredith made her mark on the league in limited time due to a season-ending injury sustained in February. The rookie became the second consecutive Lady Topper to earn CUSA Freshman of the Year and the third since joining the league after winning Freshman of the Week for the entire month of January. Meredith and point guard Alexis Mead were both named to the five-woman CUSA All-Freshmen Team. Meral Abdelgawad’s progression as a player cumulated in a stellar senior season that included All-CUSA First Team and All-Defensive Team honors. Abdelgawad was also a semifinalist for the Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year award. She was the conference’s second leading scorer on the season, averaging 19.5 points per game and finished the season in the top 50 of five different national statistical categories.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lady Toppers played a reduced and altered schedule in 2020-21. WKU played only 22 regular season games, the fewest games for the Lady Toppers since the 1974-75 season. WKU came into the 2020-21 season as one of the youngest teams in the country and that youth showed with 14 games decided by less than 10 points, including six one-possession games. Overall, WKU featured six true freshmen and one redshirt freshman.
Hope Sivori had an impressive collegiate debut, locking up CUSA Co-Freshmen of the Year honors along with All-Freshmen Team accolades. Raneem Elgedawy joined Sivori in earning postseason awards. Elgedawy was named to the All-CUSA First Team after missing the first half of the season, her second straight first team selection and third overall All-CUSA honor. Meral Abdelgawad also brought home hardware after being tabbed to the CUSA All-Defensive Team.
In 2019-20, Collins led the Lady Toppers to their eighth straight 20-win season marking a new program record topping the previous seven-season 20-win streak from 1982-83 to 1988-89 set by former head coach Paul Sanderford. WKU finished the season 22-7 overall and 14-4 in CUSA. The Lady Toppers defended Diddle Arena, going a perfect 13-0 on their home court in 2019-20. WKU was one of only 10 NCAA Division I teams to complete an undefeated home slate in 2019-20. After starting the CUSA portion of the schedule 0-2, the Lady Toppers bounced back winning 14 of their last 16 games that included a 10-game winning streak. WKU finished the season with a 31st place RPI ranking, reaching the top 30 several times throughout the season.
Walls earned a bachelor’s degree from WKU in 2018 in interdisciplinary studies and social and behavioral sciences with a minor in athletic coaching. Walls served as a team manager with the women's basketball team as an undergraduate student.
Walls and his wife, Roxanne, currently reside in Bowling Green, Kentucky with their daughter, Libby.
