There wasn’t any doubt that Liz Walter would be a star when she arrived in Hanover in the fall of 1985. The 6-0 forward was a Converse All-American out of Sheridan, Wyoming, quickly established herself as a force with which to be reckoned.
Walter helped the Green the conference championship right out of the gate as she was named the Ivy League’s Rookie of the Year and the All-Ivy First Team. Her leadership ability stood out so much that she was named the captain as a sophomore and proceeded to lead Dartmouth to another Ivy title, averaging a double-double while being chosen as the Ivy League Player of the Year.
Walter’s junior campaign was nearly a carbon copy of her sophomore season. The captain once again averaged a double-double, earning Ivy League Player of the Year honors for a second time and leading the Big Green to a third consecutive league crown.
After three seasons, Walter already had 1,286 points and 731 rebounds to her credit. Yet she made the difficult decision to forego her senior year to participate in a program that helped prepare her for graduate study in biology, traveling through Costa Rica and Jamaica. While Walter could have climbed the career charts even further — she remains fourth in scoring average and third in rebounding average — her decision paid off in the end.
After Dartmouth, Walter graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine with a faculty commendation in research. She completed her internship and psychiatry residency at Yale where she was the chief resident on the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit.
Dr. Walter has lived and worked in Montana in clinic sites, private practice, hospitals, prison systems and a federal health center, plus founded and served as the director of the Equine Assisted Psychotherapy Program. Currently, she works in the Montana VA Healthcare System where she is the director of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Program.
Walter and her husband, Dan, have twin daughters, both of whom play Division I basketball (Lehigh and Montana).