Jim Walsh

Jim Walsh completed his 18th season as as assistant coach with UW-River Falls women's hockey in 2024-25.

Walsh has been actively involved in girl’s youth hockey in both Rochester and Stillwater, Minn., youth hockey programs, both as a head coach and administrator. He has been head coach of numerous youth girls select and AAA teams. Walsh also has coached many summers at Minnesota Hockey Camps, a premier summer instructional hockey camp in Brainerd, Minn.

A native of Rosemount, Minn., he played youth and high school hockey at Rosemount High School. Walsh played two years of Junior A hockey in the USHL for the Hennepin Nordics and the Dubuque Fighting Saints from 1979-1981. He was a member of the 1981 Junior A National Championship team. Walsh played college hockey at UW-River Falls from 1981-1984 and was a member of the 1983 NAIA National Championship winning team.

Walsh earned an undergraduate degree in business management from UW-River Falls in 1986.