Walker Finds Coach in Murphy

Katie Walker, a track cyclist who made her Parapan American Games debut in November in Santiago, turned to a well-known Paralympian for coaching help earlier this year. Chris Murphy, a two-time Paralympian, began coaching Walker after he retired from competitive cycling following the UCI Cycling World Championships.

“We are working really well together,” Walker told USParaCycling.org. “I’m out here in Colorado Springs. I have a lot of support. It makes it easier to progress. Right now, I’d say I’m in a good place to do really well.”

Walker nearly made the podium in her Parapan Am debut, finishing fourth in the women’s 500-meter time trial C1-5.

Read more about her cycling journey here.

Paul D. Bowker has been writing about Olympic and Paralympic sports since 1996, when he was an assistant bureau chief in Atlanta. He is a freelance contributor to USParaCycling.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.

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