SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State head volleyball coach Steven McRoberts completed his coaching staff Wednesday with the addition of Bri Walsh as assistant coach.
A southwest Missouri native who graduated from Clever High, Walsh has more than a decade of collegiate playing and coaching experience in the area.
Most recently, Walsh served as head volleyball coach at Clever 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.
Walsh’s official start date is June 15 and her hire is contingent upon formal approval by the Missouri State University Board of Governors at its next scheduled meeting. She replaces AJ Lux, who took an assistant position at Butler University near her hometown in Indiana last month.
