She is the co-founder and current co-CEO of SHEEX, Inc., a bed linen company specializing in sheets and pillowcases constructed from advanced athletic-performance fabrics.
The four-year letterwinner was named to Virginia Tech's All-Decade team, is the school leader in career blocked shots and ranks second in field goals made and third in scoring and rebounds.
Only 25 years old when she was hired, Walvius coached at VCU from 1990 to 1995 and led the 1995 team to the Women's NIT after posting a 20–10 record.
Walvius was hired on April 28, 1997, as the head women's basketball coach at the University of South Carolina.
She took a floundering program to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments with an Elite Eight appearance in 2002, earning her SEC and WBCA District 3 Coach of the Year honors in just her fifth season on the job.
18 group in the nation by The Collegiate Girls Basketball Report, and Blue Star Index rated the 2005–06 class as the 13th-best in the country.
With Walvius stalking the sidelines, Carolina turned the Colonial Center into a difficult place for opponents to play in 2006–07, compiling a 15–5 record at home that included an 80–48 pounding of in-state rival Clemson, a 95–35 wipeout of SEC foe Alabama and an 81–40 second-round Women's NIT victory over America East Conference champion Hartford.
To celebrate the team's Elite Eight appearance in the 2002 NCAA Tournament, the Gamecock women were also chosen to open the state-of-the art Colonial Center on Nov. 22, 2002.
Walvius is extremely involved with the marketing of the team and is a frequent guest speaker in the community and on radio and television.
In addition, seven Gamecock players were named to the SEC Winter Sports Academic Honor Roll in 2005.
Walvius also recognized the importance of student-athletes receiving guidance in the real world before graduation, as she engineered the Mentors Program, which teamed up female leaders of the Columbia community with members of the Gamecock basketball team to further their real-world education, cultural and networking skills.
Conference tournament champion In 2008, Walvius and former South Carolina assistant Michelle M. Marciniak founded SHEEX, Inc., a company that is said to offer "the world's first athletic-performance sheets".
[3] Susan Walvius coached three players who went on to play in the WNBA after their careers at South Carolina.
Carolina has ranked in the top three in the conference each of the last four years in field goal percentage defense and blocked shots.
Walvius was responsible for the inception of the Mentors Program, in which successful women from the community work with South Carolina's female student-athletes to help them achieve their goals both in and out of the classroom.
In fact, South Carolina's 38 honorees is more than twice as many as seven SEC schools during that same time (Auburn, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, and Vanderbilt.)