Walter Eligible for Northridge

By MIKE BRESNAHAN

Dec. 18, 1998 12 AM PT

From Staff Reports

Eckhard Walter, a 6-foot-10 men’s volleyball player from Germany, has met entrance requirements and will play for Cal State Northridge this season.

Walter, 20, has played for the German junior national team and will be a freshman.

“He’s going to be good,” Coach Jeff Campbell of Northridge said.

Walter is expected to ease the loss of two-time All-American Chad Strickland to graduation.

“He can step in right away and pick up that load,” Campbell said. “He’s that good of a player.”

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Mike Bresnahan

Mike Bresnahan previously covered the Lakers for the Los Angeles Times. He started the beat in 2004, a month after Shaquille O’Neal was traded, and covered several seasons of mediocrity before the Lakers won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010. Now they’re back to mediocrity. Bresnahan is from Los Angeles, started with The Times after graduating the University of Wisconsin in 1994, and has also covered the L.A. Kings, pro beach volleyball and numerous colleges and high schools. He left The Times in 2016.

Walter Eligible for Northridge

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