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When Loyalty Goes Unrewarded: Chan Walker reflects on not getting head coaching job

After years of service in FAU’s softball team, FAU’s Athletics did not choose Chan Walker as head coach after Joan Joyce’s death.

Chan Walker pictured in front of FAU Softball Stadium, where spent more than 20 years as a player and coach.

Cameron Priester

Cameron Priester, Sports Editor

Chan Walker was a shoe-in.

She spent 23 years through multiple championships with Florida Atlantic University’s softball program, two as a player and 21 as an assistant coach. She led the team through an unthinkable tragedy less than a year ago, and was the protege, daughter in a sense, of the program’s architect.