TYLER WALSH
- TITLE Head Men’s Hockey Coach
- EMAIL ADDRESS tmwalsh@gustavus.edu
- MOBILE PHONE 207-616-6814
- OFFICE Lund Center 282C
- EDUCATION B.A. University of Maine ’13; M.B.A. Thomas College ’23
Tyler Walsh was named head coach of the Gustavus men’s hockey program on April 11, 2024. Walsh is the 20th head coach in the history of the program, but just the fourth in the past 60 years.
Walsh comes to Gustavus after serving as the assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator for six years at Colby College (Maine), a Division III team in the New England Small College Athletic Conference. While at Colby, Walsh helped direct the Mules to the NESCAC playoffs in five of six seasons and recruited three All-America selections. After capturing the 2022 NESCAC regular season championship, Walsh and the Colby coaches were named Men’s Ice Hockey Staff of the Year by the conference.
Walsh got his start in coaching as a student assistant at the University of Maine in 2011 and then at Canisius College (N.Y.) as the director of hockey operations for one season. He served as an assistant coach for the USA Hockey National Team Development Program from 2014-16 and then was the head hockey coach and assistant athletic director at North Yarmouth Academy (Maine) for two years.
Walsh, a Lansing, Mich. native, is a 2013 graduate of the University of Maine and earned his master’s degree from Thomas College in 2023
