Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | [1] | September 13, 1979||
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
Her sister Amy Walsh was also a player for the Canadian women's national team. [17]