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 her three seasons with the Bears, Walsh has helped the MoState defense twice rank in the top 11 nationally in total digs while leading Conference USA in 2025. Under her tutelage, Kate Owen finished her career in 2024 ranked seventh in school history in digs while becoming just the second three-time CSC Academic All-District honoree at Missouri State, one of 10 Bears to earn that award in Walsh’s three years.
In 2025, the Bears boasted a young but talented roster with 80 percent of their kill total coming from underclassmen, culminating in a first-round upset of top-seeded UTEP in the program’s first CUSA Tournament.
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.
Â
