In his second season as the Pride’s head coach Walton has hopes of leading his team to another NPF Title. In 2010, Tim Walton came aboard and led the Pride the franchise to its first NPF Championship in only its 2nd year as a franchise. Walton’s eyes remain set on that same result again in 2011.

In his four years at Florida, Walton has coached the Gators to the Women’s College World Series twice, including a trip to the championship series, brought home two Southeastern Conference regular-season and tournament titles and earned SEC Coach of the Year twice.  UF has made the NCAA Tournament every year of his tenure and hosted Regionals all four times.  He has coached 12 All-Americans, 14 NFCA All-Southeast Region honorees, four WCWS All-Tournament team selections, 18 All-SEC selections, 11 SEC All-Tournament team members, including two MVPs, two SEC Pitchers of the Year and a Player of the Year.  The coaching staff has earned NFCA Southeast Regional Coaching Staff of the Year three years running and the team was one of Easton’s Teams of the Year in 2008 and 2009.

Since Walton’s arrival, the Gators have posted team GPAs in the top 20 every season.  In 2008, they recorded the 13th highest in the nation and were the only WCWS team do record a top-20 cumulative GPA. After graduating from Oklahoma with a degree in history, Walton played with the Philadelphia Phillies minor league organization for two seasons. Walton is married to the former Samantha Rhoten, who was a basketball player at Oral Roberts. The couple has two sons, Brooks (10) and Palmer (4), and a daughter, Camden (7).