Cindy Walsh
Personal information
Date of birth (1979-09-13) September 13, 1979[1]
Place of birth Montreal, Quebec, Canada[1]
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Saint-Bruno
FC Brossard
CS Longueuil
2000 FC Sélect Rive-Sud
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2003 Hartford Hawks 80 (12)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001 Laval Dynamites
2002 Toronto Inferno
2003–2006 Western Mass Lady Pioneers
2007–2010 Laval Comets
2012–2014 Laval Comets
2019 FC Sélect Rive-Sud 13 (0)
2022 CS St-Hubert 3 (0)
International career
1999 Canada U20 6 (0)
1998–2010 Canada 24 (0)
Managerial career
2013–2015 Laval Comets
2016–2019 AS Varennes AAA
2020–2022 CS St-Hubert (women)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 10, 2022

Cindy Walsh (born September 13, 1979) is a Canadian retired soccer player who played as a defender. She has been a member of the Canada women's national team.

College career

She attended the University of Hartford,[2] playing for the NCAA Division 1 Hartford Hawks on a full athletic scholarship. She started 80 games, missing only 3 because of emergency surgery to remove a ruptured appendix in 2000. She was voted Rookie of the Year[3] and named to the conference 1st team in 2000, 2001 and 2003 and named 2nd team in 2002.[4] She had a career high of 11 assists and 7 goals in 2002, and played a variety of positions from defender, midfielder and striker.[5]

Club career

Between 2001 and 2014 she competed in the now defunct semi-professional W-League, which was among the top leagues in North America. In 13 years she played with the Laval Dynamites, Toronto Inferno, Western Mass Lady Pioneers, and Laval Comets.[6] She was named to the W-League All-Conference team in 2008. She was also named league all-star team and named as W-League Defender of the Year in 2012.[7] In 2019, she played with FC Sélect Rive-Sud in the Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.[8]

International career

She joined the Canadian senior national team when she was 18 years old.[9] In 1998, she played in the CONCACAF Women's Championship, which they won and secured a qualifying spot for the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.[10] She was captain of the U20 Women’s national team in 1999 at the Pan American games, participating in all games, and helping the team to a 4th place finish. In 2010, Walsh was called back to the senior national team for a training camp in Cyprus and helped contribute to winning the 2010 Cyprus Cup after a 10 year absence with the team.[11]

Coaching career

She began her coaching career with the Laval Comets in 2013, serving as a player-coach,[12] making it all the way to the W-League finals in first season and being named coach of the year.[7] From 2009 to 2016, she was Assistant Technical Director at the Association régionale de soccer de la Rive-Sud and School Programs Educator at Collège-Français de Longueuil, De Mortagne School in Boucherville and Heritage Regional High School.[13][14] She has also led the women's selection for the Quebec Games on several occasions[10] and work at Soccer Quebec's High Performance Center.[15]

In 2020, she was announced as the head coach of the women's team of CS St-Hubert, making them the first club in the PLSQ with a female head coach.[16]

Personal life

Her sister Amy Walsh was also a player for the Canadian women's national team.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Cindy Walsh at the Canadian Soccer Association
  2. ↑ "Hartford Hawks - Women's Soccer Record Book" (PDF). p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Kayulu, Engman Easr Top Women's Soccer Honors". America East Conference. November 8, 2001.
  4. ↑ "Women's Soccer Record Book". Hartford Hawks. June 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hartford Chosen in Women's Soccer Poll". America East Conference. August 19, 2003.
  6. ↑ "Cindy Walsh entraînera les Comètes de Laval cette année" [Cindy Walsh to coach Comètes de Laval this year]. Info Soccer (in French). January 18, 2013.
  7. 1 2 "W-League Coaching Sportlight". Bay Area Breeze. August 6, 2014.
  8. ↑ Gauthier, Sébastien (June 5, 2019). "Cindy Walsh Ajoute la PLSQ à son Impressionnant Parcours" [Cindy Walsh Adds PLSQ-F to her Impressive Run]. Première Ligue de soccer du Québec (in French).
  9. ↑ Khalkhal, Frédéric (July 8, 2019). "Cindy Walsh s'attend à une hausse des inscriptions dans les clubs de soccer après la Coupe du monde féminine" [Cindy Walsh expects soccer club registrations to surge after Women's World Cup]. Les Versants (in French).
  10. 1 2 "Portrait De Cindy Walsh - 2015 Année du Soccer Féminin" [Portrait of Cindy Walsh - 2015 Year of Women's Soccer]. ARSRS (in French). August 7, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Canada Announces Roster for Camp in Cyprus". Canadian Soccer Association. February 17, 2010.
  12. ↑ Mayrand, Claude-André (June 9, 2013). "Un nouveau défi pour Cindy Walsh" [A new challenge for Cindy Walsh]. L'Êcho de Laval (in French).
  13. ↑ "Cindy Walsh choisie par le nouveau club AS Varenne/CS St-Amable" [Cindy Walsh chosen by the new AS Varenne / CS St-Amable club]. Info Soccer (in French). July 14, 2020.
  14. ↑ "Cindy Walsh : " Retrouver la compétition en club "" [Cindy Walsh: "Rediscovering competition in a club"]. Just eSoccer (in French). March 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Piché, Alexandra (June 5, 2019). "Rester à la maison, pas une option pour les joueuses de soccer canadiennes" [Staying Home Not an Option for Canadian Soccer Players]. Ici Radio-Canada Télé (in French).
  16. ↑ "St-Hubert se lance en PLSQ féminines avec Cindy Walsh!" [St-Hubert launches into women's PLSQ with Cindy Walsh!]. Just eSoccer (in French). February 18, 2020.
  17. ↑ Prusina, Sandra (June 19, 2017). "Canadian soccer veteran Amy Walsh looks back on Hall of Fame career". Sportsnet.
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