University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics

Soccer

Quintin Walker
Quintin Walker
Quintin Walker enters his second season with Louisiana in 2025. Walker previously served as an assistant coach at his alma mater, Mississippi Gulf Coast as well as Alabama FC of the W League in Birmingham.
 
The 2024 season was a good one for the Ragin' Cajuns. Walker helped Louisiana to the best winning percentage in school history (.550) with the fewest losses in a season (5). Louisiana began the season with a seven-match unbeaten streak, matching the longest such streak in school history. During that streak, the Cajuns beat Middle Tennessee, 5-1, the team's largest margin of victory and most goals scored in a game since 2021. 

Louisiana had a stout defense in 2024. Natalie Mayes posted seven shutouts in net to set the program single season record. Louisiana's 1.10 goals against are the fewest in school history. The Ragin' Cajuns also set the program's single game attendance record when 2,475 fans were in the stands to see the team host South Alabama.
 
Walker spent a year coaching with Alabama FC's W League team in Birmingham, before returning to coach at Gulf Coast last year. The Legion brought in U.S. and international players and had a player drafted by the National Women's Soccer League.

He also worked as a sports scientist with STATSports, specializing in wearable monitoring devices. Walker worked with the Jamaica national team, MLS, NWSL, USL Championship, and MLS Next Pro teams.
Walker previously spent six seasons as an assistant for the men's and women's soccer teams at Mississippi Gulf Coast.

In the spring 2021 season, he was part of a coaching staff that helped lead Gulf Coast to the MACCC South title. The Bulldogs also won back-to-back division titles in 2016 and 2017 without dropping a South game. He's been on the staff of three teams that have reached the MACCC championship game.

The women's team advanced to the MACCC semifinals in spring 2021, where the Bulldogs lost to eventual national runner-up Holmes. The 2018 team played in the MACCC championship game, and the team made it to the semifinals in the two prior seasons.

Walker started his collegiate playing career at Lipscomb in 2010-12, then transferred to Gulf Coast for the 2013-14 season. He completed his collegiate career at Mississippi College, where he helped the team to a top-10 ranking nationally.

Walker holds a USSF D coaching license and is pursuing a C license. He played a season professionally in Brazil with Duque de Caxias. He finished his bachelor's in education at William Carey.

Walker also served as an assistant coach at St. Andrew's Episcopal in Ridgeland, Mississippi, helping the team reach the second round of the state playoffs.

He has coached with the South Mississippi Soccer Club and was technical director of the U11 and U12 programs. Walker was a Mississippi Youth Soccer Association Olympic Development Program Staff Coach who has had four players selected to the regional pool/team.

He and his wife Monique have a son, Lennox.