Bri Walsh joined the Missouri State volleyball staff as an assistant coach in June 2023.
A southwest Missouri native who graduated from Clever High, Walsh has more than a decade of collegiate playing and coaching experience in the area.
In 2024, Walsh continued to help MoState’s defense put up big numbers as the Bears ranked fourth nationally in total digs and 13th in average, with Kate Owen concluding her career ranked seventh in school history in digs while becoming just the second three-time CSC Academic All-District honoree at Missouri State.
In her first season with the Bears, Walsh mentored a trio of all-conference selections and four players who earned both MVC Scholar-Athlete and College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honors. Missouri State closed the season with wins in seven of its final 11 matches, including a first-round victory in the MVC Tournament, and ranked 11th nationally in total digs.
Immediately before coming to MoState, Walsh served as head volleyball coach at Clever (Mo.) High in 2022, helping the Bluejays to a second-place district finish and producing a pair of NAIA signees. The year prior, she led Central High in Springfield to 20 victories – its most since 2013 – produced the first all-state player in school history and had two players sign with Division I programs.
Collegiately, Walsh was an assistant at Missouri State-West Plains from 2014-20, where she helped the Grizzlies to three region championships and a pair of top-eight national finishes. Walsh mentored 16 all-region performers and four All-Americans, with 20 athletes moving on to the NCAA level in six seasons.
As a player, Walsh spent two seasons at MSU-West Plains, aiding the Grizzlies to a national runner-up finish in 2009, and completed her career at Evangel, where she was a part of a 2011 club that won a then-school record 29 matches.
Walsh graduated from Evangel in 2013 with a kinesiology degree and has since earned master’s degrees from Evangel (2015) and Missouri State (2020). She was also a Missouri Sports Hall of Fame Wynn Award recipient in 2018.
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