Ian Walsh

Ian Walsh, a former swimmer at Duquesne who has spent the past three years as an assistant at Marshall, is in his first season as an assistant coach at Cal, having joined the Golden Bear program in

Ian Walsh, a former swimmer at Duquesne who has spent the past three years as an assistant at Marshall, is in his first season as an assistant coach at Cal, having joined the Golden Bear program in April 2016.

During his tenure at Marshall, the Thundering Herd broke women’s swimming school records 28 times, finished a program-best third at the 2016 Conference USA Championships and produced four individual conference champions. Walsh primarily worked with the sprinters and middle-distance swimmers and served as the recruiting coordinator at Marshall. In 2015, the program was named one of the top 16 most improved teams at the NCAA Division I level and, in the fall of 2014, sported a fall team GPA of 3.53, which ranked as the fifth-highest in the country among women’s swimming teams.

Originally from Northeast Pennsylvania, Walsh was a high school All-American at Pocono Mountain West High School and set numerous club records as a youth swimmer at the Pocono Family YMCA.

Wash received his degree in business administration in 2010 from Duquesne and later earned his master’s degree in business education from Bloomsburg University in 2011.