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Bob Walsh begins his third season as Rhode Island College's head men’s
basketball coach. He also serves as RIC’s coordinator of
intramurals.
In 2006-07, Walsh led Rhode Island College to
27-4 overall record, establishing the best season in school history
for wins. The Anchormen went 12-2 (first place) in the Little East
Conference, capturing the program's first-ever LEC Regular Season
Championship. The Anchormen hosted the Little East Tournament for
the first time in program history, going undefeated with a 3-0 mark
to win the tourney title and advance to the NCAA Tournament. RIC
advanced to the Sweet 16 and then to the Elite 8 where the Anchormen
lost the eventual National Champion (Amherst). It was the program's
first appearance in the NCAAs in 28 years.
Walsh led the
Anchormen to a 19-10 overall record and a 9-5 (third place) finish in
the Little East Conference during his first season at the helm in
2005-06. He led RIC back to the Championship Game of the 2006 Eastern
College Athletic Conference (ECAC) New England Men's Basketball
Championship for the second consecutive season. The Anchormen hosted
the title contest for the first time in school history.
Walsh, 34,
spent seven seasons as an assistant coach with the Providence College
basketball program.
The
hard-working assistant joined Head Coach Tim Welsh's staff in
1998 after spending the 1997-98 campaign as an assistant coach at the
University of San Diego.
Walsh got his
start in college coaching when he served as an administrative
assistant on Welsh's staff at Iona from 1994-1996 while working on his
Master's Degree in Mass Communications and Public Relations.
At San Diego,
Walsh's duties included developing an individual workout system,
working with the team's guards and post players, scouting upcoming
opponents and coordinating the school's off-season improvement
program.
In two
seasons at Iona, the New York native organized office recruiting,
coordinated scouting, handled the team's travel and directed the
Gaels' study hall and academic improvement programs. Prior to joining
the staff at Iona, Walsh served as a student assistant coach at his
alma mater, Hamilton College. A 1994 graduate, Walsh has a bachelor
of arts in sociology from Hamilton.
Walsh is
single and resides in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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