Tom Walter
Walter in 2013 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head Coach |
| Team | Wake Forest |
| Conference | ACC |
| Record | 495–383–1 (.564) |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | Johnstown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Georgetown University bachelor’s degree in finance George Washington University School of Business MBA 1994 |
| Playing career | |
| 1988–1991 | Georgetown |
| Position(s) | C, OF |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1992–1994 | George Washington (Asst.) |
| 1994 | New Market Rebels |
| 1997–1998 | Cotuit Kettleers |
| 1997–2004 | George Washington |
| 2005–2009 | New Orleans |
| 2010–present | Wake Forest |
| Administrative career (AD unless noted) | |
| 1995–1996 | Greensboro Bats (Asst. GM) |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 921–711–1 (.564) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
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Tom Walter is an American college baseball coach. He has been the head coach of Wake Forest since the start of the 2010 season. Before coming to Wake Forest, Walter held head coaching positions at George Washington from 1997–2004 and New Orleans from 2005–2009. He was an assistant at George Washington from 1992–1994. Walter's career head coaching record, as of the end of the 2014 season, is 560–473.
Outside NCAA baseball, Walter served as the assistant general manager of the minor league Greensboro Bats from 1995–1996. In collegiate summer baseball, Walter was the head coach of the Valley Baseball League's New Market Rebels in 1994 and the Cape Cod League's Cotuit Kettleers from 1997–1998.
Walter received national media attention prior to the 2011 season for donating his kidney to Wake Forest baseball player Kevin Jordan. In his senior year of high school, Jordan had developed ANCA vasculitis, a condition that severely affected his kidneys. After Jordan enrolled at Wake Forest in fall 2010, the condition did not improve, and by January 2011 he required a kidney transplant. Since none of Jordan's family members qualified as a donor, Walter offered to be a kidney donor for Jordan. The February 2011 operation was successful, and Jordan was able to start his baseball career for Wake Forest in spring 2012.
On June 2, 2025, while coaching a game against The University of Tennessee, Walter appeared to call an opposing player a "fucking faggot." He later apologized for his "outburst in frustration."