New Arizona coach Sean Miller has hired Jamall Walker as director of basketball operations and Ryan Reynolds as an administrative assistant. Walker comes to the Wildcats after working at Ohio for the past year. Reynolds worked at Wake Forest last season. A university press release provides more details about each assistant’s career.
“Jamall Walker is a talented basketball coach and will serve as our Director of Basketball Operations,” said head coach Sean Miller. “Because of his success as a coach, Jamall will one day be capable of that same position here at Arizona.”
Prior to his tenure in Athens, Ohio, Walker spent the 2007-08 season as an assistant at Murray State University, where he helped the Racers to a runner-up finish in the Ohio Valley Conference. Additionally, he served as an assistant coach at Saint Louis University in 2006-07, where he directed the team’s scouring efforts and helped the Billikens win 20 games for the first time in more than a decade.
Reynolds, 24, just completed his first year as a member of the Wake Forest University men’s basketball staff, where he was the Demon Deacons’ assistant coordinator of operations. He was responsible for assisting with team travel and meals, scheduling and additional logistics within the basketball office. Reynolds also coordinated WFU’s recruiting databases.
Prior to Wake Forest, Reynolds spent the previous five years (2003-08) at Xavier University, working under both Thad Matta and Sean Miller. Four of those seasons were as an undergraduate student manager and the last was as the Graduate Program Assistant, where he prepared scouting videos, film exchange, equipment, administrative assistance and supervision of the managers.
