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 The
all-time leading scorer in the history of the Robert Morris
University Basketball program with 1,965 career points, Aliquippa
native Myron Walker also holds the Colonials’ single season record
for points with 614 reached during the 1991-92 campaign.
He was
named the Northeast Conference Player of the Year, the youngest
player ever to win the award, and the Most Valuable Player in the
NEC Tournament in which he averaged 20.7 points and 4.7 rebounds
that season.
That was his sophomore year when Robert Morris
College, as it was known at the time, met mighty UCLA in a NCAA
Tournament 1st Round game. He reached double figures in scoring in
all but one game that season (Florida State) and started all 31
games. Myron also ranks seventh all-time in rebounds (603) at
Robert Morris.
During his college days, he was one of the top
swingmen in the East who played equally hard on both ends of the
court. On offense, he could score off the dribble while driving to
the basket and from the outside.
Walker owns RMU’s
scoring mark despite missing the first seven games of 1990-91 after
transferring from Kent State before the season started. In his
first game as a Colonial, Myron tallied 22 points in RM’s 99-94
upset win at Dayton, after checking in at the 15:20 mark of the
first half with his club down by 10. Three nights later, he hit a floating 10-foot jumper
in the last 25 seconds of RM’s 85-81 victory at Duquesne.
Upon his
arrival to the Moon Township school, the Colonials won nine straight
games. Walker was coached in high school and college respectively
by fellow Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame members
James"Red" McNie and
Jarrett Durham, another Aliquippa High School standout.
While with Durham and the Colonials, Myron served as a counselor at
Red Auerbach’s Boston Celtic Basketball School. The Basketball
Almanac selected him as one of its Top 100 College Stars. Playboy
chose him as one of its "Rest of the Best". He was RM’s team
captain and All-NEC First Team in his sophomore, junior, and senior
seasons. Myron was one five top freshman named by Eastern
Basketball, and was a member of the Northeast Conference’s
All-Newcomer Team. He was the leading freshman scorer in the
league.
While playing for McNie, Walker led Aliquippa High School
to the Class AAA State Championship, scoring 34 points in the title
game against Allentown Central Catholic and its star, Billy
McCaffrey who had 37 that same night. Myron was named to the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Fabulous Five and the Pittsburgh Press
Fantastic Five. He averaged 24.4 point and 9.1 rebounds per game
as a senior with the Quips, while shooting 52% from the field and
75% from the stripe while earning 2nd Team All-State honors. As a
senior, Walker was the Most Valuable Player for the West Penn
All-Stars in the 1989 Dapper Dan Roundball Classic. |
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